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Tribal leaders who have objected to the Bush administration's revival of Ross Swimmer have cited his late 1980s tenure as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs as the major reason for their displeasure....

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Is it Friday already? That means it's time for the weekly list of the movers and shakers in Indian Country and beyond....

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A federal appeals court on Thursday cleared the way for a California tribe's health organization to be subpoenaed for resisting the presence of a labor union....


The North Dakota State University's athletics director won't make a decision on the use of Indian mascots until later this spring when the NCAA addresses the issue, The Grand Forks Herald reports....


A federal study released on Thursday shows that only 12 percent of federal lands in the West are off-limits to drilling, contradicting earlier claims by the Bush administration and the energy industry, which has cited a 40 percent figure....


A federal judge this week issued a second preliminary injunction against the Colorado River Indian Tribes in order to force the tribe to adhere to its gaming compact with the state....


A group called the Southern Cherokee Nation is seeking a federal permit for a riverboat it wants to turn into a casino....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut will hold a burial ceremony for a red-tail hawk that was recently killed at an airport....


Tribal leaders in California are reacting cautiously to Governor Gray Davis' proposal to expand Indian gaming in order to boost the state's coffers....


It took 4 1/2 hours for the members of the 20th Navajo Nation council to introduce themselves at a special session on Thursday, The Farmington Daily-Times reports....


Shareholders of a small Alaska Native village corporation received the second of two $100,000 tax-free payments this week....


An attorney for a group opposing a highway extension near Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas said there will be a legal challenge to the project....


The Women's National Basketball Association disputed a report in a Connecticut paper that the Mohegan Tribe was about to own its professional basketball team....


Jim Boyd got his big start in the music industry when he joined the legendary Indian band XIT in the 1970s....


The Farmington Daily-Times in an editorial calls on the new Navajo Nation administration to work with other governments and private industry in order to improve economic opportunities....


Several Department of Justice officials, including Solicitor General Ted Olson, urged President Bush to file a Supreme Court brief opposing all affirmative action policies, The Washington Post reports....


The US Forest Service has approved plans to place several telescope near a sweat lodge in the Coronado National Forest of Arizona....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs announces an extension of time to nominate tribal representatives to sit on the No Child Left Behind Negotiated Rulemaking Committee....


Percy John Blatchford, an Inupiaq veteran with 30 years of military service, died on Sunday from complications from diabetes....


The chief of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation of Connecticut asked the state Supreme Court on Thursday to throw out a criminal conviction against him....


Two Western Shoshone sisters in Nevada are moving hundreds of their horses out of state to prevent federal officials from seizing them....


raise a Confederate flag at the state capitol to show "honor and respect to our true heritage." Mike L....


A federal court official for the Indian trust fund lawsuit on Thursday said he would refer a government attorney for disciplinary action for her refusal to turn over documents related to an historical accounting....


Calling allegations against his court "without merit," the federal judge overseeing the Indian trust fund today rejected an attempt to disqualify himself and two court investigators from the case....


The chairman of the Blackfeet Nation tribal council has been ousted from his position, The Great Fall Tribune reported....

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Ross Swimmer admitted in a recent court deposition that the Bush administration promised to put him in charge of its failed proposal for a separate Indian trust agency....

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Calling the use of race in college admissions "unconstitutional," President Bush on Wednesday said his administration will file a Supreme Court brief opposing a Michigan school's affirmative action policy....

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The Department of Justice today will file a brief "narrowly tailored" to oppose the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy, according to news accounts....


The Senate on Wednesday approved an organizing resolution that gives the Republicans a one-seat majority on legislative committees and control over 60 percent of funding....


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The Stillaguamish Tribe of Washington is hoping a casino development will help create more economic opportunities for its members....


The Lincoln Indian Center of Lincoln, Nebraska, is looking for a new executive director to replace Kay Bursheim, who resigned last month over allegations that she misrepresenting her academic background....


The Zuni Tribe will take part in a Department of Interior forest-thinning project, The Arizona Republic reports....


Tribal, state and federal officials in Nebraska are planning more meetings to address jurisdictional questions affecting Indian Country....


A Nevada man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for the murder on the Walker River Reservation....


Closing arguments are scheduled today in the federal trial of a Navajo mother accused of killing three of her children....


The Seakonk Wampanoag Tribe of Rhode Island is seeking federal recognition and plans to file land claims in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut....


Chad Smith, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is running for re-election....


The Canadian Museum of Civilization is refusing to return remains to an Algonquin First Nation because they are too old to be Indian, the CBC reports....


A former employee of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing the federal agency, which investigates bias claims in the work place, for racial discrimination....


The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma says 227 acre of land it recently purchased in New York falls in its land claim area....


Members of the Flathead Nation of Montana are voting this Saturday on a change to their tribal enrollment policy....


Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) is being asked to stop the Bush administration's pending reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Office of Special Trustee (OST)....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut will own a professional women's basketball team, The Hartford Courant reports....


When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out to explore the lands west of the Mississippi River, they brought along special gifts for the Indians they would meet....


Putting up a Confederate flag to represent the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is "not appropriate," Chief Chad Smith said....


After four years of leading one of the most financially successful tribes in the country, Kenny Reels has stepped down as chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut....

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For the second year in a row, a conservation group has cited a tribe's proposed development project as a threat to a national park in North Carolina....

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With the bicentennial commemoration of the Lewis and Clark expedition underway, there's one woman who hasn't been talked about recently, according to a Chippewa artist who designed a teepee for this week's kick-off event in Charlottesville, Virginia....

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A federal judge late last month rejected an Arizona tribe's attempt to recover legal fees that it said arose out of the United States' trust obligations....


The Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming is trying to convince Senator Mike Enzi (R) not to introduce an appropriations rider that would overturn its recent court victory....


A casino game company is suing the Mescalero Apache Tribe of New Mexico for the return of casino game machines and for money damages....


The Cherokee Nation tribal council approved a bill 13-0, with one abstention, to set aside 25 percent of gaming revenue for tribal programs....


"It appears that Xcel Energy and our legislators are once again in a position to either honor or discard promises made to First Nation people....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is investing in several projects aimed at revitalizing downtown Norwich....


Four bills are being pushed in the Nebraska Legislature in hopes of expanding gaming in the state....


Senator Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico), the incoming chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, is working with the White House to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development by including the controversial proposal in a budget reconciliation bill, The Wall Street Journal reports....


A town in New York is asking for more money from the Oneida Nation, The Syracuse Post-Standard reports....


The Minnesota Indian Affairs Council has fallen victim to budget cuts affecting the entire state government....


Officials in South Dakota have applied for a federal grant to preserve an Indian site that is three to five hundred years old....


Republicans and Democrats have not come to an agreement on how to organize the Senate, leaving the chamber in control of the Democrats until the dispute is resolved....


Members of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas completed their march for sovereignty on Tuesday....


"I am responding to Al Knight's column in which he attempts to sufficiently analyze the complex situation of the Indian trust accounts, utilizing a small amount of paragraphs and all the while finding sarcastic humor in "how the government tricked Indian tribes, violated treaties and continues to break its promises." In his analysis of the figures involved in the claims of hundreds of thousands of American Indians, he declares that "somebody is exaggerating," insinuating that lawyers are in sole charge of deciphering the total monetary and land losses that these families have suffered at the hands of the United States government ever since the tragic days of the Homestead Act....


James Laducer, a member of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota, owns an information technology company but he says achieving success was not easy....


A Nebraska state lawmaker introduced a bill on Tuesday to ban the sale of liquor in a town near a Sioux reservation....


Tribal, state and federal officials took part in talks on Tuesday to address complicated questions of jurisdiction in Indian Country....


Representatives of dozens of tribes are taking part in the opening events for the bicentennial commemoration of the Lewis and Clark expedition....


Joe Shirley was sworn in as the president of the Navajo Nation, the largest tribe in the country, on Tuesday....


An Oklahoma lawmaker who once called for blood quantum legislation to weed out the "wannabe" Indians is in a new flap over a Confederate flag....


Environmentalists and government attorneys have come to an agreement that spares Secretary of Interior Gale Norton of another contempt citation, The Bonita Daily-Times reports....


Washington state educators are reviewing a pilot project that would give tribes the ability to certify who can teach their languages....

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Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Connecticut), a noted critic of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, announced on Monday that he was running for president in 2004....

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With the 2003 State Legislature now in session, water is again a key environmental issue being considered by the state lawmakers....

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Officials in British Columbia began distributing a new health handbook to 27,000 Aboriginal homes on Monday as part of a comprehensive, multi-year effort to improve the well-being of First Nations communities....


John McCoy, a member of the Tulalip Tribes, was sworn in to the Washington State Legislature on Monday....


A failed dog track is suing the state of Wisconsin to get rid of Indian casinos....


Arthur "Archie" LaRose, the secretary-treasurer for the Leech Lake Ojibwe Tribe of Minnesota, is being targeted for removal for numerous alleged infractions....


A school district in Idaho has hired a new liaison for Indian students....


The Bush administration will submit a Supreme Court brief in support of white students challenging affirmative action, The Washington Times reports....


Seventeen-month old twins who were successfully separated by doctors in California returned to their home in Guatemala on Monday....


An Alaska Native health organization contributed more than $44 million to the southeast Alaska economy in 2001, according to a new study....


The Oneida Nation of Wisconsin is being sued for not developing land it purchased within an industrial park....


The Oneida Nation of New York is finalizing a deal with a local town to buy water for a casino expansion....


The prevailing joke about the Democratic contenders for president in 2004 refers to a field of seven....


"Monday will be remembered as the day Julie Holmquist's murder case came to a conclusion....


Representatives of Oklahoma's 39 tribes were on hand yesterday to inaugurate Governor Brad Henry (D)....


American Indian Movement activist Russell Means says women shouldn't try to be equal to men because men are failures at leadership....


Six people arrested for protesting a Columbus Day parade in Denver, Colorado, want to be tried by a jury instead of accepting a deal with city prosecutors....


The Navajo Nation will inaugurate a new president and vice-president today in a ceremony that is expected to draw 10,000 people....


The Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Tribe of Minnesota continues to oppose efforts to store more nuclear waste at a facility next to the reservation....


Danielle Spotted War Bonnet, a 17-year-old teenage girl from the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, has not been seen by her family for five days....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs does not owe the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska $500,000 in back rent, a government official told Indian Country Today....


President Bush has ordered Department of Justice lawyers to prepare a Supreme Court brief opposing the affirmative action policy of a university, according to news accounts....


A Nebraska state lawmaker is proposing to simplify the debate over gaming by putting the issue to voters....


A museum at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas is returning four ceremonial kachina masks to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona....

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A group of tribal leaders met in Washington, D.C., last week to consider their response to a set of court-ordered proposals aimed at fixing the broken Indian trust....

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Bush administration officials approved the reorganization of Indian affairs within the Department of Interior in late November, soon after Neal McCaleb promised to share whatever he knew with tribes, according to documents submitted in federal court....

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Debate over reform of Indian trust system resumes, Ross Swimmer nominated to head Office of Special Trustee, and 108th Congress opens under Republican control....


Connecticut's two federally recognized tribes have their own way of sharing the wealth generated from their highly successful casinos....


"Now that the hustle and bustle of the holidays is past, I can finally take a deep breath and say, unequivocally, that I am indeed, the real Slim Shady....


The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma has dropped plans to open a casino on land that was being investigated by the National Indian Gaming Commission....


"Today there are 58 tribes that still live near or on the route followed by Lewis and Clark....


The Shawnee News-Star asked the two Democratic candidates vying for a seat in the Oklahoma Legislature about their views on tribal issues....


"I have to do some backpedaling on my Tuesday deer column ....


A federal judge last Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by two former judges of the Crow Tribe of Montana....


A federal judge plans to rule wihin a month whether to halt work on a dam project that is half complete but which is opposed by the Yakama Nation of Washington....


Residents of an Inupiat village in Alaska worked for three hours last week to put out a fire....


A new program called Native Trails is starting in Scottsdale, Arizona, to showcase authentic Native culture....


The Baton Rouge Advocate in an editorial says the Department of Interior should reject the latest casino proposal by the Jena Band of Choctaws of Louisiana....


Cherokee Nation lawmakers are advancing a proposal to use a greater share of their casino funds for tribal projects....


Tribes in Arizona are hiring hundreds of new employees due the expansion of gaming in their state....


Most Oklahomans support a lottery over increased taxes and budget cuts, according to a poll commissioned by The Tulsa World....


The Metis National Council of Canada suspended president Gerald Morin because he would not resign from his post over assault charges he is facing....


The recent pardon of American Indian Movement activist Russell Means has helped heal race relations in South Dakota, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial today....


The federal Federal Subsistence Board is meeting this week to consider imposing limits on traditional Alaska Native bartering practices....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and other federal officials will be kicking off events for the bicentennial commemoration of the Lewis and Clark expedition....


President Bush needs to settle the Indian trust fund lawsuit, The Berkshire Eagle of Massachusetts says in an editorial....


Outgoing Illinois Governor George Ryan (R) has commuted the death penalty sentences of 167 people, the result of a multi-year review into a system he said was fraught with errors, inequities and racism....


The nation's 31 tribal colleges are educating more than 30,000 students every year, more than double the enrollment a decade ago, The Chicago Tribune reports....

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