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The hottest ticket in Washington, D.C., yesterday wasn't some swanky diplomatic affair or a high-powered political retreat....

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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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A federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily suspended a court investigator whose work on the Indian trust fund led to the imposition of contempt sanctions on two Bush administration officials....


Acoma Pueblo and the state of New Mexico have signed an agreement that allows non-Indians accused of crimes committed at that tribe's casino to be prosecuted in state court....


Catholic scholars and religious conservatives -- and some friends -- weren't surprised when they heard Senator Rick Santorum, the No....


A critic of the Department of Justice said a policy requiring staff members to clear their contacts with members of Congress is an "an attempt to muzzle whistle-blowers," The New York Times reports....


President Bush on Thursday gave his most extensive interview since the war on Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime to NBC News....


The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians of Wisconsin is trying to locate the graves of ancestors using a radar machine used in the military to find land mines....


South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds has placed the state's tribal government relations office under a new Department of Tourism and State Development, a move that aides say will clarify its mission....


The University of North Carolina at Pembroke doesn't feel it has to justify the use of an Indian head logo and "Braves" mascot....


Students at West Seattle High School in Washington have chosen a new mascot to replace the "Indians" nickname that was dropped last September....


The Intertribal Student Council at the University of Nebraska at Omaha will hold the fifth annual Native American Pow Wow on Saturday....


Through its Native American Business Development Center, the Minnesota Ojibwe Tribe is helping members start small businesses....


A reported 200 attended a candlelight ceremony in Flagstaff, Arizona, for Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq....


The Navajo Nation council voted 60-11 on Thursday to cut the retirement program for employees of the tribe's agribusiness....


Money is being raised to build a monument to the Navajo Code Talkers who fought in World War II....


The US Army Corps of Engineers needs to work with tribal and state governments to preserve sacred sites and burial grounds along the Missouri River, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


Five members of Utah's Congressional delegation wrote a letter to Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Tuesday, asking her to rescind approval of a nuclear waste facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation....


The Department of Interior temporarily disconnected an e-mail server from the Internet, Government Computer News reports....


Despite putting the issue to tribal voters, the Prairie Island Dakota Community of Minnesota could finalize a settlement over nuclear waste without their support....


The DC Circuit Court of Appeals removed special master-monitor Joseph S....


Aurene Martin, the acting assistant secretary for Indian Affairs, will appear on the nationally-broadcast radio show Native America Calling today at 1 p.m....


All Americans should applaud Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano (D) for pushing to rename Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak in honor of Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, The Albuquerque Tribune says in an editorial....


The Navajo Nation Council on Monday passed a resolution in honor of Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq....


A bill under consideration in the Pennsylvania Legislature would authorize the state to recognize tribes....

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The Bush administration is moving forward with a controversial consolidation initiative that will result in the loss of Indian preference for 200 positions at the Indian Health Service (IHS)....

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As we reminisced on GON's of yesteryear, we forgot to mention something else we will miss: The Electric 49....


An investigation into one of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's gaming appointees could result in his termination, The Albuquerque Journal reports....


A 77-year-old man currently living in Ireland has been charged with 21 counts of abuse at two Native residential schools in British Columbia, Canada....


White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer on Wednesday refused to comment on remarks by Senator Rick Santorum, the third-ranking Senate Republican who compared gays to criminals....


Minority lawmakers in Connecticut accused their colleagues of racism and hypocrisy for approving a bill that would legalize the same type of gaming they rescinded in order to stop new tribal casinos....


The state of Texas is losing out on $2 billion because it shut down the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe's casino....


Every Native community should have its own radio station, the station manager for KIDE Hoopa Valley Radio in northern California says....


Freshman Congressman Rick Renzi (R) has opened offices on three Arizona reservations....


At a council session on Tuesday, Navajo Nation delegates criticized President Joe Shirley Jr....


Federal and state authorities in North Dakota are looking into reports that a herd on the Fort Berthold Reservation is being mishandled....


Less than 20 years ago, Aboriginal art wasn't taken seriously in Australia....


A health fair being held on the Gila River Reservation in Arizona will focus on traditional Native American and alternative medical healers....


Navajo students at an elementary school in Farmington, New Mexico, impressed their older counterparts with their knowledge of the Navajo language....


The Stillaguamish Tribe of Washington plans to open a methadone clinic to treat heroin addicts in mid-July, The Everett Herald reports....


The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma plans to lay off as many as 100 housing employees, The Daily Oklahoman reports....


Delia Waterman, a crusader for Oneida Nation land rights, died on Saturday....


The Florida Senate on Wednesday voted 32-6 on a bill that rescinds state jurisdiction over Miccosukee tribal lands....


Lori Piestewa, a member of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, died while charging her Iraqi attackers during an ambush March 23, according to Rep....


Desa Jacobsson, an Alaska Native activist, is on a hunger strike to protest the recent acquittal of a man accused or raping and murdering an Alaska Native woman....


Arlo Looking Cloud, charged with the first-degree murder of American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, will go to trial June 24 in federal court in Sioux Falls, South Dakota....


There are "100 million reasons" for the National Indian Gaming Commission to intervene in a leadership dispute within the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa, The Quad-City Times says in an editorial....


A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a provision in federal law that has limited off-reservation casinos....


Deputy Interior Secretary J Steve Griles offered to double the size of the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah if the tribe dropped plans to host a nuclear waste facility, The Salt Lake Tribune reports....


"Lori Ann Piestewa likely didn't carry an American gun to boost her legacy....


The Yavapai College in Arizona will hold a concert May 28 to benefit the two children of Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq....


The Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma has purchased an information technology company....

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From 1887 to 1934, tribes lost 90 million acres of their land base....

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For the first time since Indianz.Com launched more than three years ago, we will not be attending the annual Gathering of Nations pow-wow this weekend in Albuquerque, New Mexico....

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The Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma has expanded its multi-million dollar gaming empire by exploiting loopholes in federal law, according to a review of government documents and interviews....


The National Museum of the American Indian's new Cultural Resources Center in suburban Washington, D.C., is open to anyone who wants to use objects in the collection for study or worship....


The Foxwoods Resort Casino, owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut, has adopted new environmentally-friendly cleaning products....


Four British Columbia First Nations sued the provincial and federal governments for fish farms they say have destroyed their fishing rights....


A court in Manitoba, Canada, heard the second day of testimony in a trial for the murder a Native RCMP officer....


Some candidates in a recent primary election say their incumbents received an unfair endorsement by a tribal financial advisor, The Deseret News reports....


The 1981 rape and murder of a woman on the Oneida Nation land in New York has been solved, The Syracuse Post-Standard reports....


A lobbyist for a proposed nuclear waste facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation has been paid well, The Salt Lake Tribune reports....


The Department of the Interior's Board of Indian Appeals has agreed to accept a filing by the state of Connecticut in opposition to the recognition of the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation....


The Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma was able to stretch its dollars by partnering with the local city and county on a road improvement project....


Law enforcement duties would be shared among tribal, state and federal governments under a cross-deputization proposal for the Crow Reservation in Montana....


Cook Inlet Region Inc., an Alaska Native regional corporation, reported a $36.6 million profit last year on revenues of $95 million, and the corporation is in solid financial condition, said chief executive Carl Marrs....


Rafael Gutierrez, one of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's appointees, was sanctioned by the state board he now works for, The Albuquerque Journal reports....


The Bush administration's lack of flexibility is blamed for the failure of the president's controversial faith-based initiative....


Lori Piestewa fought her Iraqi attackers but ran out of ammunition before being shot and killed in the Iraqi desert, according to a column in The Alameda Times-Star....


The US Forest Service on Tuesday rescinded a permit to allow a telescope project near a sweat lodge in the Coronado National Forest....


The National Indian Gaming Commission is threatening to shut down the Meskwaki Tribe's casino in Iowa due to an ongoing leadership dispute, The Cedar Falls Courier reported....


Four northern New Mexico Pueblos have big plans for money they received as part of the Governor Bill Richardson's state budget....


Steve Israel's "Casino Confidential" is back! Or so it seems....


Aurene Martin, the acting assistant secretary for Indian Affairs, will observe Earth Day at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico....


The Bush administration doesn't like to take land into trust for off-reservation casinos, a Bureau of Indian Affairs official said on Tuesday....


Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi (R) on Thursday will tour the historic fort at the center of a recent Supreme Court battle, tribal officials announced....


Activity in the Indian trust fund case heats up today with the start of a two-day contempt proceeding....


A member of the Arizona Board of Geographic and Historic Names says a vote to change Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak in honor of Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, was done illegally....


Piestewa Peak is a name "that should make all Arizonans proud," The Arizona Republic says in an editorial today....


A family court judge in Michigan denied a request for a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians to give his son peyote as part of Native American Church ceremonies....

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Senior Department of Interior officials purposely stripped a report of negative information in order to deceive a federal judge about their efforts to fix the broken trust fund, a court investigator said on Monday....

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Even after the two Department of Interior agencies most responsible for the administration of the Indian trust promised to work together, infighting among top officials and key players continued, new court documents show....


"There are times in our lives when we actually can see the pages of our lives turn....


In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks and projected budget shortfalls, New York Governor George Pataki (R) and other New York politicians promised three new tribal casinos in the Catskills....


More than 250 pottery vessels dating back some 800 years were stolen in 1980, the University of Alabama said....


A Lumbee family in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is blaming two years of vandalism on anti-Indian bias....


A trial into the murder of a Native RCMP officer began in Manitoba, Canada, on Monday....


The Fond Du Lac Band of Ojibwe is hoping to reclaim an 18-acre village that tribal ancestors were evicted from in the early 1900s....


In a recent Associated Press interview, Senator Rick Santorum, the third-ranking Republican, compared homosexuality to criminal behavior....


A secret settlement in the wrongful death case of Robert "Boo" Many Horses might help Indian and non-Indian relations in South Dakota, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial today....


Charles Deegan Jr., a co-founder of the American Indian Movement who was also an advocate for Indian health care, died on Saturday....


After years of being on opposite sides of the fence, the Tulalip Tribes and farmers in a Washington county can agree on one thing: cow manure....


"Sitting Bull stirred up a lot of trouble for the settlers when he was alive....


Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano (D) signed a bill on Monday to create a memorial for the Navajo Code Talkers....


Arlo Looking Cloud, a man accused of murdering American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, appeared in South Dakota federal court on Monday....


A federal judge last week authorized the state of South Dakota to continue construction at a burial site along the Missouri River....


The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review Clinton-era regulations that limit air flights over the Grand Canyon....


Environmental groups don't have anything to complain about because rivers aren't on fire and the bald eagle isn't dying out, according to Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's spokesperson....


"Senator Campbell’s S....


A court investigator for the Indian trust fund lawsuit submitted an interim report on Monday regarding the filing of the Department of Interior's 8th quarterly report....


Grace Hanna: "Sounds as though the Republicans can't handle the type of "heavy-handed tactic" they have been handing out for years....


"Like others, I penned my signature in the bright green condolence booklet with Lori Piestewa’s photo on it....


Republicans in Arizona are threatening Governor Janet Napolitano (D) with retribution for getting Piestewa Peak named in honor of Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq....


The Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona is considering closing a road that crosses tribal land....


The 20th Navajo Nation council opened in Window Rock, Arizona, on Monday....

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The federal government is back in court this week to challenge yet another controversial ruling the long-running Indian trust fund lawsuit....

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Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, came into most of our lives only a short month ago....


Red Earth Inc., a non-profit organization, has developed a CD-ROM about Oklahoma's tribes for students in grades four through nine....


The Wisconsin State Republican Party managed to offend the "the first true Americans" by putting a "racially offensive cartoon" on its web site, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel says in an editorial....


Bilingual education at schools in Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta seems like a no-brainer: Parents demand lessons in Yup'ik and English....


The police department on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana is being hailed as a model for Indian Country....


The nation's tribal colleges have doubled enrollment in the past decade, offering 30,000 students a diverse range of subjects, from cultural education to master's degrees....


Shauna Wood: "Let's try to make the renaming of Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak positive for Arizonans because we are recognizing one of our own and continuing to remember the many American souls lost during this war." John Decker: "I have lived most of the last 36 years in the same house, with a view from my back yard of Squaw Peak and, political correctness and expedience be damned, it will remain Squaw Peak to me!" Carole Ridley: "These people bellyaching about changing a name from Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak ought to open a book or two to remember what American Indians have been and are going through." Bruce G....


John Herrington, the first tribal member to go into space, relishes his status as a role model....


The Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho held a ceremony in Vancouver, Washington, to commemorate Chief Redheart's band....


The family of a deceased member of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the resolution of his homicide....


Ralph Perdue was recognized April 13 by the Alaska Legislature for his efforts to help Alaska Natives, The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports....


"There's still a buzz left in my head from this year's tax season....


For tribes in the Pacific Northwest, it's First Salmon time -- the return of the spring chinook to the Columbia River....


The new National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., isn't slated to open until next year but the Smithsonian has opened the doors to its massive collection to visiting artists....


The five bands of Utah's Paiute Tribe were restored on April 3, 1980, after a long battle with the federal government....


A class action suit seeking $25 billion in damages for abuse at Indian boarding schools "faces a tough, tough road," The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial, but is a worthwhile undertaking....


The Calvary Cathedral holds the longest-running services in Rapid City, South Dakota, that combine Native traditions and Christian teachings....


"One day you have a home and the next you don’t, but I’m not going to tell you my particular reasons for being homeless, because it’s my secret story, and Indians have to work hard to keep secrets from hungry white folks....


The lead plaintiff in the Indian trust fund lawsuit says the Bush administration is behind a push to settle the long-running case....


"From the beginning, the proposal to rename Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak was a transparent attempt to exploit patriotic feelings to advance a politically correct cause....


Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, became pregnant her senior year in high school but that didn't stop her from graduating early and continuing her ROTC program at Tuba City High School in Arizona, according to The Arizona Republic....


Acting assistant secretary Aurene Martin, current head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, will appear Friday on Native America Calling....


"I knew Joseph Marshall III when he was just a disheartened leader of a ragtag bunch of hungry Indians, with nowhere to go until the director cut for lunchtime....


The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals last week sided with three tribes and said the "Magical Irish Instant Bingo Dispenser System" is a legal Class II game....

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