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Tribes seeking to take greater control of their own affairs are limited by the amount of money the federal government considers appropriate, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday....

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They say you can never go home again, but for outgoing Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb, he's never really left....

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Draft budget documents indicate the Bush administration is prepared to seek historic increases for trust reform, potentially at the expense of other Indian programs at the Department of Interior....


About 42 million people worldwide are living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, the United Nations and World Health Organization said on Tuesday, and nearly half of the cases are women....


In 1621, the first Thanksgiving was reportedly held....


Members of the Confederated Umatilla Tribes of Oregon will host a special Thanksgiving Day feast to give thanks to the creator....


The Indianapolis Star is on a one-paper crusade to help the Miami Nation of Indiana get federal recognition....


Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico was in court on Tuesday to oppose the state's attempts to limit its water usage....


The Arizona Supreme Court has denied a request to prevent the state of Arizona from signing casino agreements with 17 tribes as a federal judge cleared the way for the deals to be approved....


NASA astronaut and Chickasaw Nation tribal member John Herrington took his first spacewalk on Tuesday as part of his mission on the space shuttle Endeavour....


Loretta Barrett Oden, a Potawatomi chef, is a busy woman these days....


"The election is over, and Senator Tim Johnson, D-SD, was proclaimed the winner....


The Fort Peck Tribes of Montana and a local county are semi-finalists i in a governance awards program sponsored by Harvard University....


Under a Congressional bill ready for President Bush's signature, the Navajo Nation could receive more than $9 million in funding to combat diabetes The funding is contained in a reauthorization of the Special Diabetes program....


Research being published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that eating nuts and peanut butter might help prevent Type II diabetes....


The Department of Education on Tuesday issued the final rules implementing the No Child Left Behind Act....


The Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota held elections for its board of trustees and local college center boards....


"Indian people generally know where most forms of racism are going to appear....


The all new Indianz.Com message board is open for business! Thanks to all those who patiently waited....


A casino proposal by the Confederated Warm Springs Tribes is in the hands of incoming Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski....


Due to the holiday weekend, Indianz.Com will not be updating on Thursday or Friday of this week....


The Muckleshoot Tribe of Washington has gained a reputation in and out of Indian Country as shrewd business dealers....


The Department of Interior and the Department of Agriculture have given approval for a $120 million geothermal power plant near a sacred site in northern California....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is allowing farmers in southern California to take more than their share of water from the Colorado River....


Update: The Associated Press has just reported that Ralph Engelstad died....


The South Dakota Supreme Court has affirmed the Indian Child Welfare Act in a case affecting a Standing Rock Sioux custody dispute....


Sarah Ayers, a traditional Catawba potter, died on Monday in South Carolina....


An attorney whose work paved the way for the historic Boldt fishing rights decision died on Monday....


Two community groups in South Dakota have completed a study on the American Indian and the immigrant populations in Sioux Falls....


An investigation into events surrounding the death of an Alaska Native executive and the shooting of his wife was been concluded....


The Los Angeles Times in an editorial today calls for protection -- and compromise -- on a proposed school development affecting an Indian burial ground....


The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is seeking to gain full federal recognition through legislation....


The business committee of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe of Oklahoma postponed a vote on an agreement to accept the land where the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 occurred....

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A federal court investigator on Monday said he plans to interview retiring Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb under oath as part of an ongoing probe into the destruction of e-mails against court orders....

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In the rush to document years of high-profile shakeups at the Department of Interior, Indianz.Com left off a big one: Daryl White as Chief Information Officer....

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Hate crimes against American Indians and Alaska Natives increased dramatically in 2001, the FBI reported on Monday....


President Bush on Monday signed the bill creating the Department of Homeland Security....


A Navajo Nation council delegate who says he was unfairly targeted by his tribe's top politicians had his home raided by tribal police in a pre-dawn raid on Monday, The Farmington Daily-Times reported....


The Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Reservation in Montana is upgrading its telecommunications system to a high-speed wireless network....


Students at Kennedy Elementary in Norman, Oklahoma, will take part in the school's long-running Native American Day celebration today....


Garilene Smith, a senior at Shiprock High School in New Mexico, was killed in a one-vehicle accident over the weekend....


Students from Dine College on the Navajo Reservation presented their diabetes research at a National Institutes of Health conference....


Outgoing Arizona Governor Jane Hull (R) could sign gaming compacts with 17 tribes this week, depending on the outcome of court action over the agreements....


The horse track industry donated at least $296,500 to the campaign of New Mexico governor elect Bill Richardson (D), the Associated Press reported....


Republican lawmakers in Connecticut are seeking a special session to repeal a law they say paved the way for tribal casinos....


The business committee of the Cheyenne-Arapaho of Oklahoma is voting on an agreement to accept the land where the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 occurred....


A Washington woman involved in a domestic violence dispute in which a member of the Puyallup Tribe was killed was a domestic violence advocate, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports....


The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island is finalizing an agreement with a new casino partner....


A lobbying group dedicated to opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling has lost one of its corporate sponsors....


The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma is backed by a wealthy mall developer who purchased 229 acres in upstate New York for what could be a new casino development....


American Indian Movement activist Vernon Bellecourt spoke at a University of North Dakota forum on mascots on Monday night....


The Muckleshoot Tribe of Washington has purchased more than 150 acres of land where a horse track is located....


The space shuttle Endeavour make a connection with the International Space Station on Monday, leaving three crew members behind....


An Arizona business that forbade Navajo tribal members from speaking their own language went too far, The Denver Post says in an editorial....


Activist and actor Russell Means needs to honor his promises to the Oglala Lakota people even if he wasn't elected their president, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in editorial....


The Bush administration on Monday recognized the new leadership of the Kickapoo Tribe of Texas that was voted in by traditional means....


Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb plans to issue a decision on a Connecticut tribe's federal recognition next week, The New London Day reports....


"Clearly a double standard exists within the federal government....


"Go ahead, throw all you've got at Medicine Dream....

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Legislation to unify Indian land inheritance policies, and create a controversial status of trust ownership, died this year despite last-minute lobbying by tribal organizations....

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Neal McCaleb announces resignation from Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bush administration fights trust fund contempt ruling, the 107th Congress adjourns and Pine Ridge voters pick a new leader....

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Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb isn't the first and probably won't be the last....


No one speaks Navajo anymore at a business near the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona....


Norris "Skinny" Skenandore, a member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, died Saturday night after a lengthy illness....


Eight people have been charged with smuggling alcohol onto the Metlakatla Reservation in Alaska....


The chairman of the Kiowa Nation of Oklahoma says his life has been threatened over his tribe's gaming operations....


A member of the Lumbee Tribe competing at the Miss World pageant headed to London along with dozens of other contestants after deadly riots broke out in Nigeria....


Police treatment of homicides and rapes of Native Americans prompted a reported 125 to overtake a city council meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota....


Oklahoma Governor-elect Brad Henry (D) supports a lottery but not Class III gaming for the state's tribes....


There are 34 gangs on the Tohono O'odham Nation in Arizona, a reservation the size of Connecticut....


"A recent letter published in The Oklahoman reflects many misconceptions that some non-Indians have about Indians....


The US Forest Service is holding a consultation session with the Hopi Tribe of Arizona over a proposed expansion of a ski based located in the sacred San Francisco Peaks....


Leaders of two Connecticut towns that have complained about the impact of land-into-trust on their tax base are hoping a new tribal hotel will bring in revenue....


The New York Times presented a "crash course" on federal recognition in its Sunday magazine....


A member of the Puyallup Tribe of Washington was shot to death over the weekend in a dispute over the custody of her brother's daughter, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported....


The new chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana has fired an untold number of employees -- as many as 400, according to The Billings Gazette....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs is expected decide whether it will recognize the new leadership of the Kickapoo Tribe of Texas, The Houston Chronicle reported....


The Supreme Court on December 2 will hear oral arguments in two cases affecting the federal government's trust responsibility to tribes....


The Sitka Tribe of Alaska and the Alaska Native Brotherhood/Alaska Native Sisterhood have made their buildings smoke free....


The Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma has purchased a 94-year-old theater in Ada....


Congress approved a $192 million water project for the Fort Peck Reservation and surrounding communities....


The Space Shuttle Endeavour had a successful launch on Friday with Chickasaw Nation tribal member John Herrington on board....


Charles Blackwell, the ambassador for the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, said tribal member Neal McCaleb was doing a good job as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in a report by National Native News....


There have been eight assistant secretaries for Indian Affairs since the position was created in 1977....


"Even in good times the job is one of the worst in the federal government, trying to steer a bureaucracy crippled for decades by neglect, inertia and corruption....


Lucio Gutierrez, a former military colonel with strong support of Indian leaders and activists, was elected president of Ecuador on Sunday....


The police department in a small Alaska village has added a drug-sniffing dog to its force....

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