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Fulfilling the federal government's responsibilities to American Indians continues to be a major challenge for the Department of Interior, Congressional investigators said on Thursday....

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George Bush - From you was the State of the Union address to your judicial appointees, you always come out looking clean....

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The head of the Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officers' union on Thursday vehemently denied allegations of police brutality, suggesting accounts of a beating of an American Indian man and women were false....


Members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida paid tribute on Thursday to Chief Osceola....


An internal Department of Interior report supports a ban on snowmobile use at Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks....


The "Lost" Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri is seeking recognition by the state of Missouri....


Connecticut's two tribal casinos aren't likely to see any competition in the region soon, The New London Day reports....


A member of the Spirit Lake Nation of North Dakota has created a comic book for Native youth....


A New Mexico man has been charged with a third-degree felony count of child abuse for losing track of his seven-year-old daugther daughter what was reported to be an alcohol binge....


The president of the Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico and a council member were impeached by the tribal council on Wednesday....


Although most of the delegates to the Navajo Nation council are freshmen, the committee leadership are veterans of the tribe's governing body....


Members of the Shinnecock Nation of New York are opposing a local landowner's development plans, claiming the land in question belongs to the tribe....


Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee pushed through the nomination of a controversial appeals court nominee on Thursday....


Freshman Congressman Rick Renzi (R-Arizona) introduced his first bill on Thursday, to settle some water rights of the Zuni Tribe of New Mexico....


Keith DeHaas, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, got into the apparel business because he got tired of t-shirts with rainbows and maidens being sold at pow-wows....


"In April 2001, No Child Left Behind was launched as the Bush administration's sweeping new educational initiative that was hailed as "revolutionary" in bringing our nation's public school systems into the 21st century....


Shoshone-Bannock tribal member Mark Trahant has been named editorial page editor for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer....


The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today says it was wrong to "sympathize" with former assistant secretary Neal McCaleb....


Attorneys for 500,000 Indian beneficiaries said they would be working to meet a midnight deadline in order to respond to the Bush administration's trust reform plans....


The Shoshone-Bannock Nation of Idaho is asking the FBI to investigate the shooting death of a tribal member....


The Kickapoo Tribe and the Sac and Fox Tribe made their pitch for a new casino in Kansas on Thursday....


American Indian Movement activist Clyde Bellecourt said he wasn't surprised that a Minneapolis, Minnesota, police union official was denying claims of police brutality....


The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is planning a march on the IHS hospital on the Rosebud Reservation....


Changes underway at an Alaska Native-owned company could spell the end of the nation's first daily Native newscast, sources and employees said on Thursday....


The first annual State of American Indian Nations Address will be given today by National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) President Tex Hall....


"Here in southeastern Connecticut, we have what might be called the “company nation,” a community dominated by one giant business, gambling, that affects everything in sight but has a far less paternalistic attitude toward its employees. This is a good thing, and a bad thing. Employees at Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos can take care of many of their personal needs, from dry cleaning to banking to weight lifting to filling prescriptions and filling up at the gas tank, right on company property....

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Democrats in the Senate on Wednesday accused Republicans and the White House of trying to shove through three controversial appeals court nominees who waited nearly two years for a hearing....

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In defending his record to skeptical members of a Senate committee yesterday, one of President Bush's judicial nominees pointed to his work on a case that tribal leaders consider one of the most important to reach the U.S....

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If you happened to catch the January 17 episode of the NBC mid-season replacement Mister Sterling, you may have noticed something very familiar in the character of Senator Thunder Hawk Jackson....


An Alaska Native-owned firm will design and build a casino for a tribe in Oregon....


A University of Northern Colorado intramural team whose name draws attention to the use of Indian mascots donated $100,000 in scholarship funds for minority students at the school....


The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan arm of Congress, released figures on Wednesday that forecast a deficit of $199 billion for the coming year....


With a casino opening this summer, the United Auburn Indian Community of California is rebounding from near termination....


The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday held a confirmation hearing for several of President Bush's nominees to the federal bench....


A judge in South Dakota sentenced a former police officer for the Oglala Lakota Tribe to life in prison for raping a woman and her daughter....


Indian doctors in North Dakota are working closely with the University of North Dakota to address a number of Indian health issues....


There are many questions that need to be answered about the unsolved murder of American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


A bill has been introduced to federally recognize the Duwamish Tribe of Washington....


There aren't many Native Americans in Leelanau County, Michigan, but they keep the county in business, according to The Leelanau Enterprise....


The Anchorage Museum of History and Art is hosting a symposium and festival on Alutiiq culture....


Two members of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona are in charge of the tribe's police force....


John Herrington, a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, returned to his hometown to speak to students about his trip into space....


Researchers in Montana are completing a report that will reconstruct an 1872 battle between Sioux forces and the U.S....


Alaska Natives are concerned about some of Governor Frank Murkowski's agenda....


A group of Northwestern Shoshone tribal members gathered in Idaho on Wednesday ot remember the massacre of their ancestors....


Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley gave his State of the Navajo Nation address on Tuesday but said he is still working on the details of his agenda, including his presidential appointments....


Two unknown police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, have been accused of beating a homeless Indian man, urinating on him and leaving him and a woman companion out in the freezing cold....


Several top law enforcement officials on the Rocky Boy's Reservation have been fired, the Associated Press reports....


The Hoopa Valley Tribe of California is going to court to seek more water for the Trinity River....


Montana Governor Judy Martz (R) has warned a lobbyist from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe to stay away from her office, the Associated Press reports....


The Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona kicks of its 65th annual rodeo and fair today, an event expected to draw 10,000 people....

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The state of Kansas can impose a gasoline tax on a tribally-owned enterprise, a federal judge has ruled....

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In seeking $600 million to combat drug abuse throughout the nation, President Bush on Tuesday night gave a nod to a California man whose work has targeted Native American and Hispanic communities....

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Tribes in New Mexico do not have the authority to impose taxes on road projects that run through tribal land, the state's top law enforcer has determined....


A park in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, has been named in honor of Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich, two Alaska Natives credited with leading the fight for Native civil rights....


Ending days of speculation, the Mohegan Tribe and the WNBA announced the arrival of professional women's basketball team to Connecticut....


The House on Tuesday approved another temporary extension of the federal budget, delaying final resolution of the fiscal year 2003 spending bill until next week at the earliest....


President Bush delivered his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday night....


The Makah Nation of Washington's diabetes program will receive three grants totaling $11,500, The Peninsula Daily News reported....


American Indian doctors in North Dakota are meeting at the University of North Dakota to talk about the school's efforts to address health-care disparities in Indian Country....


Republican lawmakers in Virginia voted on Tuesday to reject Democratic Governor Mark Warner's appointee to the state water board, citing her representation of a local tribe....


Members of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin have filed a $10 million lawsuit alleging the sale of fake Indian art....


The Manitoba Metis Federation will hold elections in March....


A federal court will try to resolve a leadership dispute within the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation of Manitoba....


An Oklahoma lawmaker who once called for blood quantum legislation to weed out the Indian "wannabees" and once supported the display of a Confederate flag he said represented Native rights has introduced legislation to allow racetrack to operate Class II electronic games....


Marvin Herrera has been chosen as governor of Tesuque Pueblo in New Mexico for the third time....


The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a confirmation hearing today for a lawyer who defended the state of Alaska in the Venetie case....


Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his top aides are backing away from attempts to force out property owners in the Florida Everglades The Miccosukee Tribe and other property owners don't want to sell land in an area that the state and federal government consider vital to an $8 billion restoration effort....


A 22-year-old man is on trial in Alaska for the murder and assault of an Alaska Native woman....


Students from the Shoshone-Bannock Reservation in Idaho developed an experiment that is being tested aboard the space shuttle Columbia....


Stephen Carter: "I am a devoted fan of the Redskins (in fact, I hold season tickets), and, like Mr....


"In its dollar magnitude, it's almost certainly the biggest case of financial mismanagement in U.S....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs publishes notice of an update to the tribal membership of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) Negotiated Rulemaking Committee....


Members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida are returning to a fort where Chief Osceola died as a prisoner of war....

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When President Bush releases his federal budget next week, there will be a slight increase in funds to help strengthen the nation's tribal colleges, Secretary of Education Rod Paige said....

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In response to a report critical of former assistant secretary Neal McCaleb, the Department of Interior is referring back to a statement he made last October following disclosure of his e-mail destruction....

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A federal appeals court is moving forward Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's challenge to a ruling that declared her and former Indian affairs aide Neal McCaleb "unfit" to manage money belonging to 500,000 American Indians....

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Three Alaska Native corporations who invested billions of dollars to enter the lucrative telecommunications industry lost a court battle on Monday....


Two Alaska Native tribes have launched an information technology and environmental engineering firm....


Spike Bighorn, a former chairman of the Fort Peck Tribes of Montana, is the new superintendent for the Bureau of Indian Affair's Fort Peck Agency....


The Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in Colorado, home to dozens of historic Pueblo sites, is the target of what appears to be a large number of vandalism attacks....


Researchers at New Mexico State University are hoping to cultivate three native plans that have been used for medicinal purposes among tribes....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut will become the new owners of a professional women's basketball team under a deal being announced today....


A member of the Gila River Tribe of Arizona has been sentenced to life for murdering a man in an anti-gay attack....


Casino executives and analysts see a stable future for Connecticut's Indian gaming industry....


"North Dakota has a national reputation of isolation and cold....


Lawrence Morgan was elected speaker of the Navajo Nation Council on Monday, The Farmington Daily-Times reported....


President Bush will give his State of the Union speech tonight to a joint session of Congress....


Native American participation in the Sundance film festival has increased 50 percent, USA Today reports....


Officials at the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island have taken possession of a downed red-tail hawk they say shouldn't have been taken out of their aboriginal territory....


The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals will hear an appeal of the Cayuga Nation land claim....


Claiming more than 3,000 members, the Lost Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri is seeking federal recognition....


The malicious Internet program that was released over the weekend caused significant havoc on computer systems, banks and companies worldwide....


Three Alaska Native corporations still hope to make money off the wireless phone market, The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported....


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The Senate Indian Affairs Committee is expected to hold a confirmation hearing for Department of Interior nominee Ross Swimmer next month, The Tulsa World reported Swimmer has been appointed Special Trustee for American Indians, a post Congress created to fix the broken Indian trust....


Gale Norton has been given a "C" by the National Journal, a leading Washington, D.C., publication, for her handling of the Department of Interior....


A Republican lawmaker in Louisiana has introduced three bills that require more public input into any proposed tribal casinos....


"Massachusetts is amid a perfect storm for bad decision-making - in desperate financial shape, with questionable legislative leadership, faced with the allure of easy money....

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Former assistant secretary Neal McCaleb and his top aide Aurene Martin invented a story to cover up the ex-Bush administration official's failure to abide by court orders and federal law, a court investigator said in a scathing report released on Friday....

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Bush administration denies recognition to yet another tribe, the Senate finally passes spending bill, trust fund judge rejects latest attack, and tribes battle for control of Kennewick Man....

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A court official for the Indian trust fund lawsuit said he will investigate the Bush administration's reform plans in part to determine why an accounting owed to more than 500,000 individual beneficiaries is being limited....


The Puyallup Tribe of Washington held a ceremony on Saturday to say goodbye to a building that has a long and often troubling history....


"Only a week [ago], I had gotten a phone call from my agent (the lovely and very persistent Jennie Saks, of Bozeman), completely interrupting my evening denture-cleaning ritual....


"Across the country, history-minded revelers are beginning to celebrate the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition, which spurred the settlement of the West by European Americans....


American Indians "must be laughing themselves sick" with a Bush administration proposal to hold Iraq's oil fields, and the money they generate, in trust for Iraqi citizens, The Denver Post says in an editorial....


The Navajo Nation should diversify its economic development efforts, The Farmington Daily-Times says in an editorial today....


A pilot program in Alberta, Canada, that keeps Native children who are adopted in touch with their families and culture is seeking more funds to continue....


The Navajo Nation's water rights, and the lack of the tribe's push to claim them, was debated at a Navajo-led conference in New Mexico....


Once driven to near extinction at the turn of the 20th century, the last free roaming herd of bison at Yellowstone National Park has reached a population of 4,000....


The Kickapoo and the Sac and Fox tribe of Kansas are unveiling plans this week to open a casino in Kansas City, Kansas....


A federal grand jury in South Dakota heard testimony earlier this month in the unsolved murder of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, an American Indian Movement activist who died on the Pine Ridge Reservation nearly 30 years ago....


The former chairman of the Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado has received an award for helping advance economic development in southwestern Colorado....


The Lincoln Journal Star of Lincoln, Nebraska, has stopped using some Indian mascot names....


A man who claims to be the chairman of the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians of California is often the first person private developers call when they uncover burial sites or other Indian artifacts....


Two Utah tribes held a conference to discuss their opposition to DNA research....


The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation is small but its leaders have some big dreams....


A malicious computer program was unleashed on the Internet early Saturday morning that shut down web sites, some banking services and even caused delays for a major airline....


National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) President Tex Hall will give what is believed to be the first State of American Indian Nations address this Friday....


Officials in Butte County are being asked to review the Tyme Maidu Tribe's casino expansion plans....


The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear a case next month that pits the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska against the state of Kansas....

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