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A federal appeals court on Wednesday agreed to rehear a contracting dispute that could change the way tribes throughout the nation receive federal dollars....

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A Very Special Loser Shoutout goes to Eric Ruff and his lackeys at the Department of Interior's communications office! Their treatment of Indian Country for the past year has been sorely lacking....

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The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust debacle has cleared the way to probe the contemptuous behavior of Bureau of Indian Affairs officials who sent an employee home after she questioned efforts to fix the broken system....


Navajo poet Luci Tapahonso has canceled today's appearance at San Juan College in New Mexico....


Attorneys for the Republican Party asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to intervene in New Jersey's senate race....


Legislative leaders in Connecticut aren't rushing to repeal a law that allows casino gaming in the state....


Robert DesJarlait, an Ojibwe artist and writer, will receive a grant to study Indian communities....


The Oneida Nation of Wisconsin is appealing the dismissal of land claim suits filed against private landowners....


Members of the Flathead Nation of Montana are protesting a proposed change in enrollment requirements....


Arizona's tribes are poised to make new strides in gaming but observers don't think the state will turn into a second Las Vegas....


The Return to Your Roots conference on Indian diabetes began in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Thursday....


The Shiprock Northern Navajo Nation Fair is in full swing in Shiprock, New Mexico....


Public hearings are being held to discuss the use of the Navajo Nation's 3-percent sales tax....


Tribes in north Idaho have garnered the support of 12,000 residents to back a voter initiative on Indian gaming....


Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas has run out of grant money to pay tutors so the tribal college is asking for volunteers....


Athabaskan elder John Starr died on Tuesday after suffering an aneurysm last week....


Ruey Haozous Darrow, chairwoman of the Fort Sill Chiricahua / Warm Springs Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, died this past Monday at the age of 76. Darrow was the first Native American Medical Technologist....


Funeral services are being planned for a New Mexico woman who police say drowned herself and her two children at a river this week....


American Indian Movement activist and actor Russell Means will face Oglala Lakota President John Yellowbird Steele in the South Dakota tribe's upcoming November 5 election....


After complaining pretty loudly about the role of a trust fund monitor, the Department of Interior is all of a sudden quiet about a judge's ruling affirming his court's oversight....


The Nez Perce Tribe and a group of local governments and school district are finalizing an agreement on how to resolve their disputes....


The Canadian government is offering Native veterans $20,000 in compensation, an amount many feel is grossly understated....


Critics of federal recognition process say Neal McCaleb's new reform plan doesn't do enough to address problems at the Bureau of Indian Affairs....


A National Park Service superintendent said he will retire than be transferred to a park where the Cherokee Tribe of North Carolina wants to swap land....


Jerry Haney resumed control of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, more than a year after he was ousted as the tribe's principal chief....


The Organization of American States has urged the United States to cancel today's auction of cattle seized from two Western Shoshone sisters....


"At this point in the history of American race relations, our inability to abandon racial symbol patterns set in the 1930s reveals a community dragging its feet reluctantly into the 21st century when it comes to race relations....

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In response to threats of Congressional intervention, the Bush administration is moving forward with an aggressive revamp of the federal recognition process, including promotions and raises for staff whose work has been questioned....

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Tribal leaders are moving forward with renewed plans to correct more than a century of trust fund mismanagement in the wake of a virtual breakdown in talks with Department of Interior officials....

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The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians has just enlisted the lobbying services of Jack Abramoff, a Republican with close ties to the House GOP leadership, The Washington Post reports today....


Denver Post readers react to legislation by Senator Ben Nighhorse Campbell (R-Colorad) to grand residency to an 18-year-old Mexican national....


Critics of the federal recognition process in Connecticut are welcoming Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb's strategic reform plan....


The New Jersey State Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with Democrats and allowed their candidate for Senate to appear on the upcoming November ballot....


Mormon Church leaders in Wyoming wrote a critical letter to members of Congress last month, accusing the Department of Interior of poorly managing a sacred site....


Livestock officials in Montana sent three bison to the slaughterhouse because they wandered out of Yellowstone National Park....


A poll conducted by the University of Connecticut shows opposition to a third casino in the state....


A request to repeal Connecticut's casino law was rejected by state legislative leaders and Governor John Rowland (R)....


The Wiquapaug Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut has filed an appeal to the recent federal recognition of the historic Eastern Pequot Tribe....


YMCA chapters have been making changes to their "Indian Guide" and "Indian Princesses" programs in response to complaints by Native Americans....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is fronting the cost of a $7 million water pipeline....


Navajo Nation police on Tuesday arrested a council delegate with orders to extradite him to the state of New Mexico....


The Shiprock Northern Navajo Nation Fair begins today in Shiprock, New Mexico....


Navajo poet and professor Luci Tapahonso will read from her works at San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico, this Friday....


Police in southern California have identified a second man they believe is responsible for the murder of a Kiowa tribal member....


A 19-year-old New Mexico man died in a one-car accident on the Navajo Reservation on Tuesday....


Arizona tribes have put gaming dollars to good uses not always seen by outsiders....


Oklahoma state regulators and the oil and gas industry have concerns about a bill to reform land transactions affecting the Five Civilized Nations....


After years of receiving accolades from the journalism community, the Wotanin Wowapi newspaper on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana will be honored by its own....


About 200 members of the Fort Belknap Tribe of Montana are protesting a tribal contract that takes over real estate and trust services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton said Wednesday she hoped Congress will pass legislation to implement President Bush's forest thinning initiative....


Department of Interior officials on Wednesday said at least 20,000 salmon have died in the Klamath River in northern California....


Republicans in the House on Wednesday approved a proposal to allow drilling in the 1.5-million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....


A new study by an environmental group shows that Alaska Natives who live near a decommissioned military base have nearly 10 times as many toxic chemicals in their blood as average Americans....


Bill Janklow is running for South Dakota's only House of Representatives seat....


A member of the Gila River Tribe of Arizona faces harsher sentencing for killing a man based on sexual orientation....

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The House on Tuesday approved legislation to compensate two Sioux tribes for more than 4,000 acres of lost land after Republicans tacked on a controversial amendment....

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Bush administration attorneys last month suggested they might challenge an Indian trust fund ruling if resolution of the 30-year-old dispute doesn't go their way....

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A bill to change the way land belonging to members of Oklahoma's Five Civilized Tribes is on hold pending discussions with the oil and gas industry....


The House on Tuesday passed a bill to ban Americans from using Internet sites to gamble....


New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone sought but eventually turned down a chance to replace Senator Robert Torricelli on the upcoming ballot for Senate, The Washington Post reports....


The Ford Foundation on Tuesday honored two Arizona men for promoting Tohono O'odham culture and health....


The Bureau of Land Management in Nevada plans to auction cattle seized from two Western Shoshone sisters who have refused to pay grazing fees on land they consider aboriginal territory....


The Oneida Nation of New York has paid for a study to help resolve sewage problems in a local town....


Crowds in Kansas have turned out in force to see a statue representing a Kanza Indian, to the surprise of its creator....


Christopher Bighorse was failing high school before he discovered the joy of reading and writing....


The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an independent federal agency, has sued an Arizona restaurant over a policy which forbids Navajo employees from speaking Navajo....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs has closed the comment period on the federal recognition application of two Nipmuc tribes from Massachusetts....


Indian gaming comes in many forms in many states but has grown to become an economic powerhouse over the past decade, generating $12.7 billion in revenues for tribal governments....


The Denver Post in an editorial today makes the case for scientists to study the remains of the 9,000-year-old Kennewick Man....


Edward Kisto, a former Tohono O'odham Nation council member, died at his Arizona ranch due to complications from throat cancer and kidney failure....


Kathleen Merle Fleury, the former Indian affairs coordinator for the state of Montana, died recently....


When thousands of acres of Kiowa and Comanche lands to white settlement in 1901, Oklahomans decided a land run was "not very civilized." So instead they held a land lottery instead....


A group of Seminole Nation tribal members held a protest on Tuesday against the Bureau of Indian Affairs' resistance to recognize their elected leaders....


About 1,500 to 2,000 people use the Tohono O'odham Reservation in Arizona to enter the United States every day....


The House on Tuesday approved legislation to pay three Oklahoma tribes $40 million for more than 7,000 acres of lost land....


Wyoming's only Congresswoman, a Republican, feels shafted by her own party leadership on a bill to sell 1,000 acres of federal land to the Mormon Church....


The Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Tuesday approved two of President Bush's Indian affairs nominees....


A federal judge has been asked to hold Secretary of Interior Gale Norton in contempt of court for violating a settlement agreement over endangered manatees in Florida....


A federal judge on Monday ordered Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to continue to reimburse an Indian trust fund investigator....


The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday ruled against a group of Skull Valley Goshute tribal members who oppose plans to store up to 44,000 tons of nuclear waste on their Utah reservation....

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A federal judge on Monday ordered the Bush administration to pay legal fees to a court investigator whose reports were used to help find Secretary of Interior Gale Norton of contempt....

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The number of American Indians and Alaska Natives without insurance has increased over the past three years, the U.S....

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The Supreme Court's October 2002 term begins next Monday with a lot of fanfare....


The interim president of the University of Minnesota recommends continued involvement in a controversial telescope project build on a sacred mountain....


Phil Cochran: "Interior Secretary Gale A....


The official period to challenge the recent federal recognition of the historic Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut ended on Monday....


Navajo Nation police in Arizona helped capture a man suspected in a string of violent crimes....


The second session of the 37th Parliament of Canada began on Monday with the infamous "Speech from the Throne." Delivered by Gov....


The Department of Interior plans to flood the Grand Canyon next year in hopes of saving native species of fish....


Senator Robert Torricelli (D-New Jersey) ended his re-election bid on Monday....


Creating 100,000 jobs by 2008 is a worthy goal but there there are critical issues to address in Indian Country, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial today....


A development company says it will consult with the Tongva Nation of California on a burial site that has halted work on a gated home community....


The Cherokee Nation and the state of Oklahoma signed a compact to share revenues from the proceeds of car tags....


Yanomami tribal groups in Brazil are waging a campaign against the presence of the army in their territory....


"In some circles, the case of “Obesity vs....


The number of dead fish in the Klamath River in northern California appears to be dropping....


"In August, a federal court ruled that the scientists have the right to study the bones....


The Department of Interior's expected appeal of the Kennewick Man decision has yet to come....


A judge in Alaska ruled that the state's rural justice system does not discriminate against Alaska Natives....


Sandia Pueblo of New Mexico is seeking additional changes to a bill that settles its outstanding land claim....


An independent federal agency that investigates whistle blower complaints has ordered Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to report on alleged abuse of authority involving a controversial land swap....


California Governor Gray Davis (D) on Monday vetoed legislation to allow greater protection of sacred sites....


Jodi Rave of The Lincoln Journal Star, a Lee Enterprises newspapers, continues her series on the Indian trust fund and its problems....


Navajo Nation representatives are taking a strong stance against the Department of Interior on Indian trust reform....


A project at the University of Montana connects Native students with careers in journalism....


An independent study commissioned by The Arizona Republic claims the state's 17 tribal casinos generate nearly $1 billion in revenue for their communities....

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Amid Congressional attempts to protect Indian Country's significant places, the Bush administration on Friday gave new life to plans for a controversial gold mine located near a California tribe's most sacred site....

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When Steven Griles took the stand earlier this year in defense of the Bush administration's handling of the Indian trust debacle, he seemed confident in his words....

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Bush officials take hard line on Indian trust reform, court tries to resolve Seminole Nation leadership dispute, tribal recognition battles continue, and gaming nominee Phil Hogen goes before the Senate....


A 36-foot Salish totem pole will be auctioned in Washington because of a controversy involving a tribal member....


The Northern Plains Tribal Arts 2002 festival wrapped up on Sunday in Sioux Falls, South Dakota....


Dave Kehr of The New York Times reviews "Skins," the latest movie by director Chris Eyre, calling it a funny but "uninspired" movie about two brothers on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota....


Sherman Alexie's latest film "The Business of Fancydancing" has been opening nationwide to positive reviews....


Two years ago, Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado) drafted a bill to set up an independent government agency to handle Indian trust....


Economists hired by two Maine tribes will provide support of the economic benefits a casino will bring....


"If, indeed, smallpox has become a weapon in the hands of terrorists, there is reason to be concerned....


The Arizona Republic takes a critical look at three gaming initiatives being put before state voters....


The Department of Interior has affirmed a decision to take five acres of land into trust for the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska....


The Wind River Tribal College on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming wants to join the American Indian Higher Education Consortium....


The No Child Left Behind Act, an initiative of President Bush, is leaving some Yaqui elders who teach language skills in Arizona behind....


A Kiowa tribal member armed with a metal detector appears to have discovered remnants of an historic Army fort in his backyard....


When it comes to nuclear waste or bingo, Utah residents, by a 2-to-1 margin would rather the Skull Valley Tribe open a bingo hall than a waste repository....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs won't recognize the governing body of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma....


The body of an Army soldier who died under mysterious circumstances is back in South Dakota this week for burial and a second autopsy....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Friday reversed a decision to hold back water for fish in the Klamath River Basin of California and Oregon....


The Environmental Protection Agency will release a draft report on pollution in the upper Columbia River basin in response to a tribal request....


The five Nez Perce bands who refused to be confined to a reservation in Idaho were almost near their final destination of Canada in late September 1877....


Did you know that US District Judge Royce Lamberth has a twin brother? And that he's considered the best thing to happen to Indian Country since, well, ever? Thanks to an article in today's Lincoln Journal Star, you can find out what Lamberth thinks of his portrayal as one of the toughest judges....


Jodi Rave of The Lincoln Journal Star, a Lee Enterprises newspaper, has written a series on the Indian trust fund debacle....


"Elouise Cobell lost not a dime on Enron stock....


There is just one Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission and he feels lonely sometimes....


A group of Western Shoshone tribal members in Nevada plan to protest recent federal seizures of cattle....