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Bush administration officials responsible for oversight of the $12 billion Indian gaming industry on Thursday said they would work to ensure success of tribal casinos through strong regulation....

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A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected an attempt by American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier to reduce his prison sentence for the 1975 murder of two FBI agents....

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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....


A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated regulations limiting road construction on nearly 60 million acres of forest land....


"When the moon was teetering between first quarter and full half, I saw it hanging just above the housing units at Spirit Lake reservation Tuesday....


President Bush on Thursday revived his faith-based initiative to make it easier for religious and charity groups to receive federal funds....


President Bush on Thursday issued was is being called a stinging rebuke of Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) for comments the Senate majority leader made about segregation....


Connecticut tribes are hoping to draw more conventions to their casino facilities....


Orlando Villas-Boas, a Brazilian man whose exploration efforts were instrumental in creating the country's first Indian reservation, died on Thursday after a long illness....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation donated $475,000 to the United Way of Southeastern Connecticut, helping the charity raise a record $9.25 million....


Navajo Nation authorities believe a fire that destroyed outgoing President Kelsey Begaye's election headquarters in Shiprock, New Mexico, was deliberately set....


The Navajo Nation council almost denied $150,000 in fund for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Shirley Jr., The Farmington Daily-Times reports....


A federal appeals court on Thursday gave permission for private landowners and two counties to join the Cayuga Nation land claim....


The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, an independent regulatory agency, said it will delay a decision on a proposal to store up to 44,000 tons of nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah....


Florida state water managers are moving to condemn 375 acres of land owned by the Miccosukee Tribe....


The Department of Interior has dropped efforts to close next week's task force meeting on trust reform....


Jim Billie, former chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, will attend a trial involving three former associates accused of stealing $2.7 million from the tribe....


Three convenience stores owned by the Fort Peck Tribes of Montana are being investigated for financial improprieties....


Outgoing Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye said former Miss Navajo Nation Radmilla A....


TIME magazine's controversial report on Indian gaming is drawing praise in Connecticut, where foes say it has confirmed all of their complaints about casinos....


South Dakota attorney general Mark Barnett today will discuss the results of his investigation into alleged voter fraud among American Indians....


The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana has been fined $11,240 by the state ethics board for filing a campaign finance report too late....


John Echohawk, executive director of the Native American Rights Fund, spoke at the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council's annual convention on Thursday....


An attorney for imprisoned American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier said a federal appeals court ruling against him was a "disgrace." Peltier is serving two consecutive life sentences for the murder of two FBI agents....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's personal lawyer, whom taxpayers are partially funding, accused a federal judge of personalizing his decision to hold her and Indian affairs aide Neal McCaleb in contempt....


Phil Hogen, the new chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, responded to claims by New York Times columnist William Safire....


Deputy assistant secretary Aurene Martin is undergoing questioning today about her knowledge of destruction of e-mails by her boss Neal McCaleb....


A Bureau of Indian Affairs contract firefighter is trying to have his confession of starting the largest fire in Arizona thrown out of court....

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Federal officials are moving to restrict participation at an upcoming meeting on trust reform, prompting complaints that the Bush administration is trying to stifle debate on the proposed reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

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A federal court in Canada last week blasted the government's top Indian affairs official for meddling in the management of a financially strapped First Nation....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton held in contempt...Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb resigns...Tribes develop alternatives to BITAM proposal...Republicans regain control of the Senate...Supreme Court takes on trust relationship...President Bush leads the country into war...The anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks....


Attendees of a state governor's conference were warned about the growing Indian gaming industry on Wednesday....


A public hearing was held at the Innu First Nation at Davis Inlet in Labrador, Canada, to address a move of the entire community....


Inuit leaders in the Canadian territory of Nunavut are seeking to have Inuktitut recognized as their official language....


Two brothers in Utah have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for allegedly trying to shoot Ibapah Goshute Chairman Milton Hooper....


Residents of a Wyoming city located near the Wind River Reservation are reacting negatively to a racist church that is relocating to their community....


A study of minority health in Kansas revealed high rates of high blood pressure and death from heart disease....


The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today urges the state of South Dakota to purchase an ancient Indian site that dates back 6,000 years....


Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the only African-American on the court, broke his customary silence during oral arguments on Wednesday to speak about cross-burning....


The Bush administration on Wednesday proposed changes in federal regulation that would limit environmental and judicial review of forest-thinning projects....


Senator Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) on Wednesday said he would not step down as majority leader over remarks that are being characterized as racist....


A joint House-Senate committee on Wednesday made public its findings on the September 11 terrorist attacks....


"Gee, here's a real shocker....


Legislation is being proposed in Anchorage, Alaska, to apologize to the widow of an Alaska Native man who was killed in a domestic violence-related dispute....


The Navajo Nation will receive $12 million in grants to combat diabetes....


The executive director of the Lincoln Indian Center in Nebraska has resigned....


Australia's High Court today dismissed a land claim filed by the Yorta Yorta Tribe....


A Republican lawmaker in Connecticut said he plans to introduce legislation to revoke the recognition of state tribes....


It's not racist to probe allegations of voter fraud among American Indians, The Rapid City Journal says in an editorial today....


Republicans in South Dakota are pushing for changes in state law in response to charges of voter fraud among American Indians....


The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust fund lawsuit has scheduled a hearing tomorrow to address attempts by the Bush administration to limit questioning of top officials....


A California tribe donated $100,000 the Republican party in an unsuccessful attempt to meet with Secretary of Interior Gale Norton, The Palm Springs Desert Sun reports....


The following are letters in response to a December 8 column by Delphine Red Shirt, an Oglala Lakota woman who has written for Indian Country Today, who said that Eastern Indians are not real Indians....


"We were told that the glitzy gambling casinos springing up on Indian reservations across the land would lift poor Indians out of poverty....


The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals today refused to entertain a request by imprisoned American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier to reduce his two life sentences for the murder of two FBI agents....


Indian Health Service The Indian Health Service is seeking public comment regarding the collection of certain information....


Former Miss Navajo Nation Radmilla A....


An Alaska Native regional corporation will receive a $30 million trust fund as part of an agreement with the federal government....

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An aide to Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb has given information to a federal court investigator that calls into question the outgoing Bush official's sworn testimony about his wanton destruction of e-mails, according to an attorney involved in the case....

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The Bush administration is providing $100 million over the next year to fight the growing epidemic of diabetes in Indian Country....

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Once upon a time, a certain Bush administration (not this one, the father's) decided to reorganize the Bureau of Indian Affairs....


The Associated Press obtained copies of more than 40 affidavits that Republican lawyers collect in the wake of Democrat Senator Tim Johnson's narrow win in South Dakota....


Criticism of incoming Senate Majority Leader (R-Mississippi) continues to grow over his remarks that many attribute to an endorsement of racial segregation....


A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a federal judge's ruling that struck down the death penalty....


A Congressional panel that investigated intelligence failures before last year's terrorist attacks will release its final report today, according to news accounts....


The number of slot machines allowed in Arizona's tribal casinos will jump from 9,000 to nearly 16,000 in the next five years....


The Maidu Tribe of California and a local county have reached an agreement over a proposed casino....


The Oneida Nation of New York has sold $135 million worth of bonds to pay for part of a casino expansion....


A 42-year-old man was taken into custody early Tuesday morning for allegedly shot another man on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota....


The central Arctic caribou herd in Alaska has grown size over the past two years, Petroleum News Alaska reports....


The Billings Gazette in an editorial today says the state of Montana must pay more attention to Indian children in light of Census figures released that show an undercount....


Rocks With Wing, a documentary about a girls basketball team on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico, debuts on PBS tonight....


The Autry Museum of Western Heritage and the Southwest Museum, both of California, are merging....


A site being proposed for the future Shiprock Navajo Nation fair grounds is radioactive, The Farmington Daily-Times reports....


A judge in Canada on Tuesday granted Inuits a temporary reprieve from a gun control law they say infringes on their rights....


Jim Billie, the former chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, agreed to be interviewed by federal prosecutors, his attorney told The Miami Herald....


Former senator Slade Gorton, the Washington Republican who was defeated in the 2000 election by a Democrat with heavy tribal backing, has been named to a presidential commission on the September 11 terrorist attacks....


A Republican lawmaker in Connecticut wants to terminate state-recognized tribes, The New London Day reports....


Navajo Nation President-elect Joe Shirley Jr....


The Alaska Inter-Tribal Council is meeting in Anchorage this week to discuss a controversial proposal to change the way Alaska Native tribes are funded....


"Lou Dobbs Moneyline," a CNN program is running an online poll that asks the question: "Do you believe gambling on Indian reservations should be tax-exempt?" The results of the unscientific poll show that respondents believe the answer is "No." Yesterday, Dobbs interviewed Donald Barlett, editor at large for TIME, about the magazine's recent report on Indian gaming....


Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb has been asked to look into an Oklahoma tribe's proposal to open a bingo hall in New York....


A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the prison term of a South Dakota tribal member who pleaded guilty to killing his second cousin....


The Department of Interior on Tuesday assigned a new director for the office responsible for maintaining trust records belonging to hundreds of tribes and 500,000 American Indians....


Schaghticoke Tribal Nation The Bureau of Indian Affairs publishes notice that the Assistant Secretary -- Indian Affairs proposes to decline to acknowledge that the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation (STN) exists as an Indian tribe within the meaning of Federal law....


The Nebraska Court of Appeals on Tuesday reinstated a wrongful death suit filed by the family of an Oglala Lakota man killed in a highway accident....

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Radmilla Cody, a former Miss Navajo Nation who has used her musical career to position herself as a role model in Indian Country, has been sentenced to nearly two years for her role in a drug ring that she says was linked to an abusive relationship....

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South Dakota's top law enforcer is largely rejecting Republican allegations that voter fraud on Indian reservations contributed to Democrat Senator Tim Johnson's slim victory more than a month ago....

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A Reorganization Contest Now that the first member of the Bush Cabinet has resigned, In The Hoop is running its own contest! The five readers who correctly guesses which high-level Bureau of Indian Affairs manager will leave as a result of the pending reorganization and comes closest to the departure date will receive a lovely gift from the folks at AllNative, our sister e-commerce site....


The Spokesman Review in an editorial today opposes a proposal for an off-reservation casino in Idaho....


Senator Trent Lott (R-Mississippi), the new majority leader, issued a statement on Monday apologizing for what were characterized by others as racist remarks....


A federal judge on Monday said Vice President Dick Cheney does not have to release information about his energy task force to Congressional investigators....


The Norwich Bulletin in an editorial today supports an effort by the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut to recruit Polish citizens to work at its casino....


Connecticut lawmakers held a hearing on Tuesday to discuss repealing a law that paved the way for tribal casinos....


A group of Indian law experts met last week to discuss the Supreme Court's oral arguments in two breach of trust cases....


The proposed collegiate hockey Hall of Fame, automobile museum, agricultural museum and national collegiate aviation Hall of Fame at the Alerus Center seem to be too many in the same theme - perhaps overkill....


President Bush on Monday nominated the executive of a railroad company as his new Treasury Secretary....


The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma is moving forward with plans for a Class II bingo hall in New York, The Syracuse Post-Standard reports....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is donating more than 300 computers to the local community....


The 19th annual Governor's Conference on Tourism is being held in Reno, Nevada, this week....


Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski (R) named Ernesta Ballard, former chief executive for an Alaska Native village corporation, to his administration....


The trial into alleged theft of funds from the Seminole Tribe of Florida elicited testimony from a former employee who said he was told to fake business invoices and hide the evidence....


The Alaska Native Education Summit kicked off in Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday....


Three tribes with casinos in Arizona are benefiting from a trust fund in California designated for non-gaming tribes....


The following documents of note were published in today's Federal Register....


The following are excerpts of an article "Bad Lands, Bad Votes: Putting Tim Johnson over the top, by any means necessary" that was published by the National Review in its December 23 issue....


Proposed changes at the Bureau of Indian Affairs are a good first step, even if they don't address core issues of trust fund mismanagement, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


A 30-year veteran of the National Park Service is leaving federal service because he says the Bush administration wanted him to push through controversial projects....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the FBI are investigating the shooting of man by a police officer for Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota....


The Pueblo of Santa Clara in New Mexico has charged a tribal officer with driving while intoxicated and assaulting a state police officer....


A new National Indian Gaming Commission will be sworn in this week, The Syracuse Post-Standard reports....


Members of the Shoshone-Bannock Nation of Idaho are being warned not to adopt a proposed blood quantum requirement for tribal enrollment....


The city of Albuquerque and 19 Pueblo tribes have come to an agreement on the development of the old Albuquerque Indian School in in New Mexico....


Indian children were among the most undercounted in Montana on the 2000 Census, the Associated Press reports....


"On November 28, due to 'outbreaks of violence' on South Dakota reservations, Representative Case (Rep SD) is preparing a bill to vest law enforcement authority in state and county officials....

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The Bush administration on Friday launched a broad challenge to a federal judge's ruling that declared Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and Indian affairs aide Neal McCaleb "unfit" to manage money belonging to 500,000 American Indians....

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Supreme Court considers breach of trust, Bush administration announces Indian affairs reorganization, tribal sovereignty heads to high court, and Connecticut tribe denied recognition....

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Congratulations, Bushies....


A Mormon scholar who says his research proves that American Indians are not a lost tribe of Israelites is facing expulsion from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....


"When June Conklin Lockwood stepped up to the microphone at the funeral of her uncle and my relative, I thought how much she looked like an elder - the lines of character and the rounded middle....


The St....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut has recruited 100 Poland nationals to work at its casino....


Research published last week in the journal Science reports the development of the earliest known writing system in the Americas....


"That should be the name of the new strategy by Interior Secretary Gale Norton, et al, at the Interior Department these days in the Individual Indian Money account case, especially since they have lost every round to the Cobell plaintiffs....


Three former employees of the Indian Health Service in Montana pleaded guilty last week to using government credit cards to buy light bulbs....


Montana state officials were spared a contempt of court citation on Friday but the Montana Supreme Court handed a significant victory to the Flathead Nation nonetheless....


The Seminole Nation is developing an Indian-owned restricted allotment in Oklahoma City....


The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of Colorado is undertaking a $10 million casino expansion project....


Members of the Colorado River Indian Tribes of Arizona voted three council members out of office who were among the most supportive of the tribes' costly but unsuccessful Indian gaming initiative....


President Bush has picked another corporate executive as his Treasury Secretary, according to news accounts....


The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission will decide this week whether to purchase a 250-acre historic Indian site, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports....


American Indians suffer from high rates of diabetes and other problems because the federal government hasn't lived up to its promises, The Arizona Republic says in an editorial....


The Salt Lake Tribune in an editorial says the Bush administration's proposed reorganization of the Department of Interior is a "small and tardy response" to a federal judge overseeing the Indian trust debacle....


"Opening arguments were heard this week in the U.S....


The federal government must stop treating American Indians and tribes with "shabby disregard" and deal with them honorably, The Denver Post argues in an editorial....


The federal government needs to be held accountable for managing Indian trust assets, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


"With her scripted, photo-op advocacy of Bush environmental policies -- and a tough coal lobbyist running day-to-day operations backstage at her department -- Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton has gained a nickname, "the Stepford Secretary." Strangely, though, Norton has been keeping a low profile in this part of the West, where Interior has vast land holdings....


TIME Magazine is running a stories on Indian gaming that can be boiled down to three types: Indian gaming has not benefited the poor, Indian gaming has enriched non-Indians, Indian gaming has led to membership disputes....


A federal judge today dismissed the General Accounting Office's attempt to force Vice President Dick Cheney to reveal information about his energy policy task force....


An aide to Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb has been called to testify about her knowledge of destruction of e-mails against court orders and government policy....


The Bush administration on Friday asked a federal appeals court to set aside three rulings in the Indian trust fund case....


Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana cruised to re-election on Saturday, her 52 percent to 48 percent win indicative of the party-line split her victory leaves the Senate in....


"The latest news coming out of the Indian trust accounts debacle leaves little doubt those in charge haven't a clue what they are doing. It seems the bureaucrats running the show aren't sure exactly what their duties are and, in a very Clintonesque move, have asked for those duties to be defined....

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