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Feeling the fire from Congress and the courts, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb is starting to sound a lot like his controversial predecessor when it comes to federal recognition....

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US District Judge Royce Lamberth said today he was "dumbfounded" that the Department of Interior's computer shutdown has dragged on for more than more than three months....

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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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Department of Interior officials on Thursday indicated they would seriously consider getting rid of the individual Indian trust provided Congress could assure protections to thousands of landowners and tribes....


In an editorial, The Norwich Bulletin calls on the federal recognition process to be reformed....


Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on Thursday said a landmark disability rights law was vague, leading to negative decisions limiting its scope....


A Rhode Island lawmaker on Thursday denied a proposal to study gaming in the state was linked to his recent meeting with a competitor to the Narragansett Tribe....


The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts is dropping its "Mohawks" nickname....


Two northern California tribes have asked a federal judge to restore water to their fisheries....


A Native American lawmaker running for governor in South Dakota wants tribes to work with the industry to develop a meatpacking plant....


A meeting was held on Wednesday to discuss a proposed redrawing of a school district in New Mexico but no one came....


Cherokee actor Wes Studi, Navajo singer Dephine Tsinajinnie and Apache comedian extraordinaire Drew Lacapa are among the guests slated for the fourth annual Native Youth Language Fair, Poster Contest and Intertribal Powwow....


The Puyallup Tribe of Washington is laying off 142 employees as its casino undergoes renovation....


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The Tanana Chiefs Conference of Alaska has elected new leaders....


Lawmakers in the House and Senate are questioning the Bureau of Indian Affairs' proposed budget cuts to post-secondary schools....


New Mexico's State Engineer is threatening to have Pojoaque Pueblo's water supply shut off....


The Alaska Legislature is proposing to eliminate all state funding for subsistence....


A bill that would retroactively subject tribes to a gas tax is unconstitutional Idaho Attorney General Alan Lance has ruled in an opinion....


President Bush expressed deep disappointment on Thursday after the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his pick to a federal appeals court....


A dissenting member of the Skull Valley Goshute Tribe of Utah says the state's two senators helped launch an investigation into a proposed nuclear waste facility on his reservation....


The Crow Tribe of Montana has kicked four judges off the bench, including one who questioned the recent actions of tribal officials....


Justice in rural Mexico can be harsh, as reported by The Washington Post, which recounts the story of how a Mixtec Indian community buried a man alive as retribution for the killing of another....


Failed energy company Enron and accounting firm Arthur Anderson have been suspended from entering into new federal contracts....


A South Dakota paper says the team's name won't have an effect on the debate over Indians as mascots, but the "Whities" of University of Northern Colorado are certainly getting a lot of mileage....

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An angry Congressman on Wednesday blasted the Department of Interior for being biased in favor of tribes when officials decided last year to deny water to non-Indian farmers in the Klamath Basin....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is used to getting slammed in the press and in court for her actions (or inaction as may be the case) but yesterday she got it in person....

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University of Illinois trustees seeking guidance on the school's controversial Chief Illiniwek mascot found little on Wednesday with a report which offered no concrete resolution to the long-running debate....

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The Department of Interior doesn't know how much 300,000 American Indians are owed because an historical accounting of their funds has not been conducted, Secretary Gale Norton said on Wednesday....


A Montana woman has been indicted on felony charges for allegedly driving while drunk and carrying a baby on her lap....


The Department of Interior has been put on notice for a $37 million lawsuit over a Bureau of Indian Affairs employee involved in a deadly car crash....


President Bush is known for repeating himself but at a press briefing on Wednesday, his habit reached an feverish pitch as he was pummeled with questions about peace in the Middle East....


While Bureau of Indian Affairs employees were indicted for fraudulent use of government-issue credit cards, the Defense DepaRtment is letting employees walk away from millions of dollars in debt....


A Rhode Island lawmaker on Wednesday proposed to create a commission to study gaming in the state....


Officials of the Cowlitz Tribe of Washington say they are no immediate plans to locate a casino on 150 acres of land they want placed into trust....


The Gila River Tribe today will unveil more detailed plans to host an Arizona Cardinals football stadium on its reservation....


Some pieces of ancient pottery that turned up in an odd location in Alaska have been returned to their rightful owner....


Barring any last-minute freakouts, the Senate Judiciary Committee is voting today on the nomination of Charles Pickering to the federal bench. Pickering is a federal judge in Mississippi....


With the help of federal funding under a flood law, the pow-wow grounds of the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa will be saved from erosion, the Associated Press reports....


Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,900-year-old Mayan mural in the jungles of Guatemala and say it provides rare insights into tribal culture....


A receiver should be set up to garnish the per capital payments of Mashantucket Pequot tribal member being sued, the Connecticut Supreme Court was told on Wednesday....


After issuing two memos directing state agencies only to deal with recognized tribal leadership, New York Gov....


A committee has been set up to review potential changes to the way the Navajo Nation government is run....


The Connecticut town of North Stonington has budgeted $100,000 to continue fighting three Pequot tribes....


Several religious groups in Washington have sent letters in support of the Duwamish Tribe's federal recognition....


A federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday refused to temporarily halt funding for a Native Hawaiian programs....


Research published in today's issue of Nature gives new meaning to that joke about a thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters....


Citing lack of support from the Native community in South Dakota and hostility from Indian activists, the woman leading the charge against mascots has dropped her fight....


Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Chairman Kenny Reels has become vegetarian and is on a management program to combat his diabetes, reports The New London Day....


The FBI has issued subpoenas to two Skull Valley Goshute leaders to determine how tribal money is being spent on a proposed nuclear waste facility in Utah....


Idaho's House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 53-17 to approve a bill that retroactively subjects tribes to a gasoline tax....


"THE campaign against Indian nicknames and mascots presumes that they offend Native Americans -- but do they?" asked Sports Illustrated magazine in last week's issue....


"Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination," is a new book by Alaska Native author Shari Huhndorf....

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No one promotes quite like Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska)....

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If you didn't attend, or listen to on the Internet, today's House Resources Committee hearing on the Klamath Basin, you missed lots of yelling, lots of promises and no tribal leaders....

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A federal judge has accepted Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's request to drop historical accounting arguments made during the Clinton administration but questioned the government's truthfulness on the controversial matter....


Native students who started the "Fighting Whities" basketball team at the University of Northern Colorado are planning on selling t-shirts bearing their unusual name for $20....


Representative Don Young (R-Alaska) will chair the House Resources Committee if the Republican leadership agrees to his demands, reports The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner....


Research published in today's issue of Environmental Science and Technology has found that 80 percent of streams analyzed by the federal government are contaminated with antibiotics, steroids, synthetic hormones and other pharmaceutical waste....


Several Mayan workers from Mexico were injured and one died when a van they were traveling in crashed in Colorado....


"Thank you for running the article on Adelia Godfrey on the front page of your March 3 paper....


The Connecticut town of Ledyard is considering a request by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation to continue use of a parking lot....


A group of residents in Maine has formed Casinos No! to oppose a proposed tribal casino in the southern part of the state....


New York Governor George Pataki (R) and attorneys for the Cayuga Nation are pushing a settlement of the $247.9 million claim....


The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma is willing to drop its part of a land claim settlement in exchange for a casino in New York....


The Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine, is hosting an exhibit featuring Penobscot items from a private collection....


The Bureau of Land Management is considering allowing a British company to test for oil deposits in a monument home to ancient Puebloan ruins....


Federal charges may be brought against a Navajo man in connection with the beating death of a man on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico....


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A trustee of the University of Illinois is taking the middle ground when it comes to the school's controversial "Chief Illiniwek" mascot....


Former Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt has found a new job....


After more than two years of inaction, a Kansas company has killed plans to start a tribal gaming management subsidiary....


A group of private landowners in New York has asked a federal judge to dismiss land claims made by the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin....


A $22 million bridge project in New York has been delayed due to the discovery of a grave dating back to the 13th century....


In response to a recent deadly accident involving an employee, the Bureau of Indian Affairs in New Mexico has issued a warning on drinking and driving....


Imprisoned American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier has asked a federal appeals court to reduce his two life sentences....


First Nations leaders are oppsing a referendum that tests voter support for sovereignty and the treaty process....


A Idaho legislative committee on Tuesday passed a bill to retroactively tax Idaho tribes....


The Ford Foundation has awarded a member of the Gwich'in Nation in Alaska a $130,000 grant....


America's dependence on foreign oil will drop by 2 percent if the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is opened to oil drilling, a federal report states....


An opponent of a tribal gaming initiative has succeeded in pushing through a study of casinos in Idaho....

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After scoring a hit for taking the The Wall Street Journal to task for a racist portrayal of Indian issues, Indian Country Today has struck out with its latest editorial on trust reform....

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More than a year after a hold was put on regulations aimed at restoring the tribal land base, the Bush administration has failed to propose an alternative....

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A federal judge on Monday approved a request by the state of New York to hold back paying a $247.9 million land claim award to the Cayuga Nation while an appeal and potential settlement of the long-running dispute is pursued....


First Nations leaders are meeting in Winnipeg this week to oppose changes to the federal-band relationship....


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The Penobcot Nation and the Passamaquoddy Tribe have dropped their push to open a casino in Maine....


The Eastern Band of Cherokees in North Carolina have added live digital blackjack tables to its casino....


The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday heard arguments in a dispute between tribes in Ecuador against oil giant Texaco....


Three of Maine's tribal leaders make a first-ever address to the state Legislature on Monday....


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A group of prison inmates in Montana have sued the state in order to be returned to a main state prison....


The Senate Indian Affairs Committee next week will hold a hearing on a bill to distribute a land claim award to members of the Western Shoshone Nation....


In an effort to bring more tourists to its three-state reservation, the Navajo Nation has begun work with the federal government and a land trust organization....


In an editorial today, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader criticizes law enforcement authorities for subjecting a Dakota teenager to "appalling conditions." "Officials said she was housed where she was, because there was no place else to put her," writes the paper....


The Crow Tribe of Montana has softened its opposition to expanding the Little Bighorn Battlefield to include several key areas of land....


The Vatican has ordered a five-year moratorium on new deacons in the heavily Indian state of Chiapas, Mexico....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's claim that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will create more than 700,000 jobs is being questioned by economists and her own allies....


"The Fighting Whities" is only an intramural college team but its founders have gotten a lot of attention from the media....


A federal judge on Monday refused requests to reconsider a $247.9 million judgment award to the Cayuga Nation of New York....


Remembers those two Bureau of Indian Affairs employees, one part-time, who were charged with reviewing land-into-trust applications in New York? Well, they have quit, writes Steve Israel in his column "Casino Confidential." Israel first reported on the lack of resources dedicated to land-into-trust when he questioned whether any decisions would be made soon affecting off-reservation casinos in the Catskills....


Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb has affirmed the trust status of land owned by the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma but the tribe won't still won't be able to open a casino in Kansas....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is "softening" her tone on reorganizing Indian trust, Federal Computer Week reports....


The Bush administration on Monday proposed to temporarily eliminate habitat protections for 19 salmon and steelhead runs in order to settle a lawsuit brought by development interests and local governments....


The tribes on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana held a homecoming ceremony last night to honor their basketball stars....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton takes on trust, the Senate starts debating energy policy, Jena Choctaws get rejected by the Bush administration, and Supreme Court takes case affecting Native corporations....

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Environmentalists are upset that Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is using a video created by a pro-drilling lobbying group to promote oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

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Tribe and reservation specific services could see major changes as Secretary of Interior Gale Norton moves to standardize the way her department manages the Indian trust fund....


Threatening further land claims, three New York tribes have told Gov. George Pataki not to negotiate with tribes outside the state....


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A Bureau of Indian Affairs correctional officer in Montana has filed a sex discrimination lawsuit against Secretary of Interior Gale Norton....


The Fort Mojave Tribe is using the California part of its reservation to store tons of sewage waste from a county 270 miles away....


Famed attorney Johnnie Cochran is representing a group in Connecticut that claims descent from the historic Mohegan Tribe Best known for defending O.J....


The prospect of a tribal casino in southern Maine has residents of the town of Kittery buzzing....


The Department of Interior has determined the remains of a man to be culturally affiliated to the Ft....


The expected canonization of Juan Diego has drawn the complaints of a group of Catholic scholars who say the Aztec Indian man is not worthy of sainthood....


"Ever since getting married and moving to Utah, I have become the poster-child for humiliation....


"I am watching a family being totally destroyed because the breadwinner became addicted to gambling at one of our tribal casinos. He owns his own business, and up until recently was very successful....


Environmental Protection Agency Administration Christie Whitman is under investigation to determine whether she is making decisions for financial benefit....


The school in Kivalina, Alaska, is rewriting its discipline plan in hopes of reopening next week....


Navajo Code Talker David Tsosie received his Congressional silver medal in a ceremony in New Mexico on Saturday....


A unique program at Connecticut College is aimed at making sure the indigenous roots and people of Latin America don't go unnoticed....


The pipeline that has transported oil from the Arctic through Alaska is nearing the end of its 30-year-lease and many are wondering whether it can last any longer....


Thanks to profits from its casino, the Kalispel Tribe of Washington has established an educational institution....


In an effort to persuade a high school to change its mascot, a group of Indian college students in Colorado have nicknamed their intramural basketball team "The Fighting Whities." The University of Northern Colorado team has members of various ethnic backgrounds but wants to show how Indian students feel, say organizers....


A planned move of 32,000 cubit feet of trust fund records is being questioned by the special master in the Cobell class action....


The Bush administration may not like the compact the Jena Band of Choctaws signed with the state of Louisiana but that doesn't mean the tribe is giving up....


The Bush administration's enthusiasm for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge isn't necessarily shared by large oil companies who are somewhat quiet about the prospects....

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