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This week, the place to be was definitely not NIGA '03....

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With two major Indian conferences this week, the NIGA Annual Golf Scramble and Trade Show (oh yeah they have a meeting too.) and the FedBar, we have a very special episode of Winners and Losers....

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The Bush administration doesn't plan on finalizing land-into-trust regulations that have been in limbo for more than three years, an official said on Thursday....


The Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma will use a $2.3 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to help low-income families and elderly and disabled tribal members....


A former jail guard for the Puyallup Tribe of Washington pleaded not guilty to sexual assault of a female inmate....


The Department of Interior on Thursday released the operational plan for the Klamath Reclamation Project in the Klamath Basin....


Regulations approved by the state of California require companies to restore mining sites....


The state of Connecticut has expanded the water-service authority of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, The New London Day reports....


A South Carolina House subcommittee passed a bill to place American Indian affairs under the state Minority Affairs Commission....


Phillip Charles Bread, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison and ordered to pay $2,000 on a bribery charge....


The Honor the Earth Tour, featuring Native activist Winona LaDuke and the Indigo Girls, stops on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota today....


The House voted on Thursday to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....


Peggy Nelson: "Please, give us a break....


A memorial service will be held for Lori Piestewa, a member of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, who was killed in action in Iraq....


Ousted Seminole chief Jim Billie can't run for a seat on the Florida tribe's council, the council has determined....


Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, was honored at the recent Northern Arizona University pow-wow....


A police officer in Rapid City, South Dakota, who shot a Lakota man is not racist, Indian acquaintances say....


The Senate late Thursday approved the nomination of Ross Swimmer as special trustee at the Department of Interior....


About 125 members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of South Dakota are in the military, tribal chairman Charles Murphy said....


Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Connecticut) has asked the Department of Interior to look into its ethics policies following reports highlighting questionable behaviors of Deputy Secretary J....


A confidential out-of-court settlement has been reached in the wrongful death suit of a Lakota man who died under suspicious circumstances....


A federal judge delayed the sentencing of Clifford Bird in Ground, ex-chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana, in order to give his attorney more time to consider withdrawing his guilty plea of accepting bribes....

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The Bush administration voiced opposition on Wednesday to a series of Indian health proposals that enjoy bipartisan support and have broad tribal backing....


Shiprock High School in New Mexico is the site of the the Environmental Alliance for Senior Involvement pilot program....


Federal rules prohibit naming or renaming a geographic feature in honor of a deceased person within five years of the date of death, The Arizona Republic reports....


A Mayan priest who was active in a human rights group and in the Indian community was abducted in Guatemala last week....


Representative Barbara Cubin (R-Wyoming) was forced to apologize on Wednesday for remarks that appeared to say all African Americans are drug addicts....


Secretary of Education Rod Paige backed away from statements that said Christian values belong in public schools....


American Indian and other minority families in the Twin Cities have a harder time getting off welfare, according to a study by the Wilder Research Center....


The Klamath River has been named one of the nation's most endangered rivers by American Rivers, a conservation group....


A former Indian Health Service employee on the Crow Reservation in Montana was sentenced to a year and one day in federal prison for accepting kickbacks....


The fate of Joshua Wade, accused of raping and murdering an Alaska Native woman, is in the hands of a jury in Alaska....


"Navajo Nation Vice President Frank Dayish Jr....


The Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to allow Eskimo whalers in Alaska to claim tax exemptions on whale hunts The deduction, up to $10,000, applies to the costs of outfitting boats and crews....


A leadership dispute within the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa is impacting the tribe's finances and the tribe's casino....


"I'm afraid that I made a mistake when I suggested that we change Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak in honor of Lori Piestewa, the 23-year-old Hopi soldier who died in Iraq....


The fifth Honor the Earth Tour featuring the Indigo Girls and Winona LaDuke kicks off in Minnesota tonight....


"This is the tale of two privates....


Lori Ann Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, is the focus of worldwide attention for a number of reasons, The Arizona Republic reports....

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The Navajo Nation on Tuesday lost a second attempt to increase the amount of money needed to administer welfare programs for the largest tribal population in the country....

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British Columbia's top law enforcement minister faced a barrage of criticism on Tuesday for remarks Native leaders and some government officials characterized as racist and insensitive....


A Navajo Nation committee voted 11-2 to start water rights negotiations with the state of Utah, The Farmington Daily Times reported....


Fort Peck Reservation: Keno is a Class III game and is illegal on the Fort Peck Reservation, tribal regulators have determined....


A former Bureau of Indian Affairs employee from the Crow Reservation in Montana was sentenced to three years probation for accepting kickbacks, The Billings Gazette reports....


The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians of California is in talks to buy a historic hotel property that has cultural significance....


A Montana man pleaded not guilty in federal court to killing a man during a domestic violence incident on the Fort Peck Reservation....


Two Ojibwe tribes in Wisconsin are waiting for federal and state approval of an off-reservation casino The Bad River and St....


Research published in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association compares the quality of life of obese children to young cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy....


Mashantucket Pequot tribal leaders are considering moving the tribe's offices to their museum, The New London Day reports....


Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep....


In an interview with a Baptist publication, Secretary of Education Rod Paige said Christian values belong in public schools....


Lori Ann Piestewa, the first U.S....


Joshua Wade did not rape and murder Della Brown, an Alaska Native woman, a jury in Alaska was told on Tuesday....


New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) fulfilled a campaign promise to elevate Indian affairs in state government....


Tribal leaders at the 12th annual National Indian Gaming Association membership meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, warned of attacks on tribal sovereignty....


Nambe Pueblo in New Mexico has agreed to stop distributing gasoline in exchange for a $20 million payment from the state....


The state of New York, two counties and 7,000 private landowners have filed a 249-page brief challenging the Cayuga Nation land claim....


The Billings Gazette calls on Montana state senators and Governor Judy Martz (R) to reject a proposed hunt on bison that wander out of Yellowstone National Park....


KICK International, announced its new Youth Development Drive today in St....


The Miami Nation contributed more than was allowed to the campaign of Representative John Sullivan, The Daily Oklahoman reports....


The Senate Indian Affairs Committee continues its focus on Indian health issues with a hearing on three pieces of legislation....


The Arizona Republic in an editorial yesterday said Squaw Peak in Arizona should be renamed Piestewa Peak in honor of Lori Ann Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in the Iraqi war....


Three of the top 10 soft money donors in Wisconsin are tribal governments, according to the group Common Cause....

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On the heels of a negative Supreme Court ruling, the Navajo Nation is gearing for another round in its fight over mining in northeastern Arizona....

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For much of last year, Neal McCaleb had a mantra....


The prosecution wrapped up its case against Joshua Wade, an Alaska man charged with murdering and raping an Alaska Native woman....


New gaming compacts with 10 tribes in Wisconsin will be finalized in the coming weeks, a state official said....


"With a beaded strip running through the center, the man's robe blanket -- half blue, half red -- graces the gallery wall, the colors representing the sacredness of night and day among the Lakota....


The state of Idaho is considering appealing a controversial roadless forest rule to the Supreme Court....


"The Star Tribune erred when, in a recent editorial, it claimed that allowing state-sanctioned casinos would not cause Minnesota any regret in the future....


The ninth annual Northwest College Powwow will be held at Northwest College in Montana this Saturday....


The Black Hills State University in South Dakota is holding its Indian awareness week....


Oklahoma tribal advocates said lawmakers and the press have unfairly linked the debate over a state lottery with Indian gaming, The Oklahoma Daily reports....


The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the right of states to ban cross burning although the decision may take some explaining....


A Navajo man was convicted by a federal jury of murdering his two children on the Navajo Reservation in Utah....


The British Columbia government has reached a tentative agreement with the Snuneymuxw First Nation, CBC reports....


"During the [recent University of North Dakata Indian Association] powwow, someone came up and asked me about the paint that some of the dancers use on their faces....


California Governor Gray Davis (D) signed into a law a bill that requires reclamation of a massive gold mine near a site sacred to the Quechan Nation....


The National Indian Gaming Association, which represents more than 150 tribes, holds its 12th annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, this week....


Representative Tom Udall, D-N.M., Monday confirmed that he has been tapped as vice-chairman of the Congressional Native American Caucus....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is scheduled to testify on Thursday about her department's fiscal year 2004 budget....


The indictment of a second man in the murder of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash was supposed to be kept secret, a federal prosecutor said on Monday....


A memorial will be held Friday for the nine members of the 507th Maintenance Company, out of Fort Bliss in Texas, who were killed in action in Iraq....


The Pentagon is collecting evidence as part of a possible war crime investigation in connection with the death of Lori Ann Piestewa and other members of her unit who were killed in action in Iraq, The Arizona Republic reports....


"I'm wondering if during her short life Army Pfc....


Squaw Peak in Arizona should be renamed "Piestewa Peak" in honor of Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman who was killed in action in Iraq, The Arizona Republic says in editorial today....


The Cayuga Nation of New York wants to build a $500 million casino in the Catskills on the site of a racetrack....


"While much of the country debates race-based admissions at the University of Michigan, none should pay more attention than the newsrooms of America....

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One dead, one alive, both forever free, Two women who've served us overseas. Both are beloved, both soldiers true, Both with hearts red, white, and blue....

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The first message was posted at 1:11 a.m....

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Lori Ann Piestewa, a member of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, was killed in action in Iraq after her military unit was ambushed March 23, the Department of Defense confirmed late Friday....

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Image by Quentin Estes, 20, Salem, Oregon....

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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in the latest challenge to tribal rights....

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"Throughout America, especially in Native American communities -- Americans are grieving the loss in combat of Army Private First Class Lori Piestewa....

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Vice President Frank Dayish Jr has issued an executive order for Navajo Nation flags across the Nation to be flown at half staff April 7th and 8th, in honor of Pfc....

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The new director of the South Dakota Office of Tribal Relations is Roger Campbell....


"Last week, I stepped out into the fickle spring weather to visit Lincoln, Neb., on Herald business, to follow the Lewis and Clark trail in Nebraska and to visit with the project director of the Lewis and Clark bicentennial....


The Department of Interior has given approval to an open-ended gaming compact between the state of Wisconsin and the Forest County Potawatomi Tribe, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports....


"I'm having an affair....


Leander McDonald: "I am from the Spirit Lake and Three Affiliated Tribes here in North Dakota....


"Although on the surface, Lloyd Omdahl - noted North Dakota politician, legal professional, and columnist - may have admirable reasons for wanting a Native American billionaire, his column in March 31 Herald has some problematic features....


Dorreen Yellow Bird interviews Kevin Washburn, a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, for her "Prairie Voices" feature....


The Supreme Court of Canada heard oral arguments last month in two cases affecting Metis rights....


The Blackfeet Nation tribal court upheld the ouster of former chairman William "Allen" Talks About....


Efforts to eliminate the use of Indians as mascots continue across the country, with some defeats and successes....


New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) signed the state's Indian Education Act into law on Friday at a ceremony with tribal leaders....


All seven Indian lawmakers in Montana voted against a bill that would allow a hunting season on bison that wander out of the Yellowstone National Park....


The House floor will hear debate on an energy bill that includes provisions to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development....


Spring is whale-watching time for fans of the gray whale as the animals make their annual migration....


The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, an independent review board of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will hold a hearing on a revised plan to store nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation....


The Prairie Island Indian Community will have nuclear waste in its backyard until 2038 at the earliest, and possibly until 2062, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports....


The Cayuga Nation of New York will ask the Bureau of Indian Affairs to take land into trust for an off-reservation casino, The New York Times reports....


It's been a month since the Senate Indian Affairs Committee approved, on a near party-line, the nomination of Ross Swimmer as Special Trustee at the Department of Interior....


A light snow was reported in northeastern Arizona over the weekend, a sign in Hopi culture of the return of one's spirit....


The cover story of the Boston Globe Magazine this Sunday was "The Big Fix?" a look at whether gaming will be legalized in Massachusetts....


The trust fund case is about forcing the federal government to be accountable to individual Indians, the executive director of the Native American Rights Fund said....

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