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

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My deepest condolences to you and your family and tribe and city....

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The Bush administration is again finding a sympathetic ear in members of Congress as it seeks to limit the federal government's responsibilities to individual Indians....

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Steve Griles - You can have a high level government position and still get paid to be a consultant....


The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island opposes a recommended vote on gaming in the state, chief sachem Matthew Thomas said....


The South Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to rehear a gasoline tax case affecting tribal members....


Kathryn Harrison, ambassador for the Confederated Grand Ronde Tribes of Oregon, will receive an honorary doctorate from Portland State University....


Three Washington tribes are supporting a state salmon recovery plan....


A judge in Virginia has rejected a treaty rights claim of the Mattaponi Tribe....


Antoine Predock, an architect based in New Mexico, has been chosen to design the a new Indian Community School in Franklin, Wisconsin....


The Norwich Bulletin in an editorial today recommends listening to "Casino Reservations," a documentary about two tribes and their gaming experiences....


Former Seminole chief Jim Billie filed a federal conspiracy lawsuit against Florida tribe....


A proposal to legalize up to eight casinos in Nebraska was approved 25-20 in a second round vote on Thursday....


A proposal to pay Navajo farmers if they cut back on their water usage " is a positive step toward addressing potential water shortages this year," The Farmington Daily Times says in an editorial today....


Tribes all over the nation are contributing millions to political campaigns....


A proposal for an urban casino that would benefit two remote Ojibwe tribes has "merit," The Minneapolis Star Tribune says in an editorial today....


Navajo and Hopi communities in northeastern Arizona continue to pray for the safe return of Lori Piestewa, a Hopi solider considered missing in action in Iraq....


The Walk for Justice Committee held a second march in Rapid City, South Dakota, on Thursday....


The member tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy of New York submitted an amicus brief in support of a tribal claim to 9,000-year-old remains known as the Kennewick Man....


The National Indian Gaming Commission is investigating whether the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma can operate a gaming facility on land in New York, The Syracuse Post-Standard reports....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is holding a mail-in election for the Council of Elders....


The United States may have to ask the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for assistance in locating a second man wanted in connection for the murder of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash....


The family of a Lakota man whose death at West Point Military Academy in New York was ruled an accident still wants an independent investigation into the suspicious incident....


"I am opposed to a war with Iraq....


Nine of the 11 bodies that were found in this week's rescue of an American soldier in Iraq have been shipped to the United States....


An Army National Guard unit with at least 24 tribal members was deployed to Kuwait last Wednesday, The Navajo Times reports....


An American soldier who was rescued in Iraq this week doesn't have "definitive information" about Lori Piestewa, the missing Hopi woman, The Arizona Republic reports....


The wife of an Alaska Native police officer who served as Alaska's first public safety commissioner has filed a $2 million claim against the estate of the woman responsible for her husband's death....

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Word around the Beltway (OK, more like the 4th and 5th floor at the Department of Interior) is that "acting" assistant secretary Aurene Martin plans to make an important announcement next week....

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The Bush administration's plans to consolidate and restructure the Indian Health Service (IHS) met serious opposition at a Senate hearing on Wednesday....


Alaska tribes, environmentalists and federal agencies are criticizing a proposed state regulation that would allow a village corporation to use herbicide as part of a reforestation effort....


"After teaching my "Remedies" class at the UND law school Monday, I returned to my office to read the Grand Forks Herald editorial page....


Research published this week in Nature reports that a species of dinosaur found on the island of Madagascar was a cannibal....


Is a water park in the future of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut? A 54-story hotel? A convention center? An arena? These are just some of the rumors bandied about in response to the tribe's $99 million expansion announced on Tuesday....


The proponents of a $1.8 billion entertainment and casino project in Montana aren't dissuaded by this week's narrow defeat in the House....


Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle (D) doesn't plan on stopping negotiations with tribes just because Republican lawmakers have filed a lawsuit, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports....


The House Resources Committee voted 32-14 to approve a bill that opens up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling....


Tribes have been given seats on Wyoming's Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Subcommittee....


A reported 171 bison were hazed back into Yellowstone National Park, temporarily saving them from slaughter at the hands of the state of Montana....


A South Dakota county accused of diluting Indian voting rights should settle a lawsuit "quickly and easily" to avoid a long court battle, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial today....


Eldena Bear Don't Walk, a student at the University of Montana, has been chosen for the American Indian Ambassadors Program....


Money the Navajo Nation has collected through a new 3-cent sales tax has yet to be distributed to the local chapter governments as promised, The Farmington Daily Times reports....


A Blackfeet Nation court is considering a case involving a dispute over the leadership of the Montana tribe....


Senate Republicans lost a 55-44 vote on Wednesday, their fourth attempt to break a Democratic filibuster against appeals court nominee Miguel Estrada....


An Army private first class who was a roommate of a Hopi woman considered missing in action in Iraq watched other members of her unit die during a skirmish with Iraqi forces, The Washington Post reports....


The Florida House Committee on Public Safety and Crime Prevention voted 11-6 to approve a bill that retrocedes state jurisdiction over Miccosukee tribal lands....


Bills introduced by Montana's Indian lawmakers don't seem to go far very in the Legislature....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs wants to take an 18-acre burial site into trust an Ojibwe tribe in Wisconsin....


The Mississippi Band of Choctaws weren't even considered a tribe until 1945....


A South Dakota woman was indicted in state court on eight charges of alleged voter fraud among American Indians....


Update: Authorities are looking for a second man, identified as John Graham, also known as John Boy Patton, in connection with Aquash's death, the Associated Press reports....


Members of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana braved a snowstorm on Wednesday to support the more than 90 tribal members serving in the armed forces....


Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles is getting paid $1.1 million, on top of his government salary and on top of taxpayer funds used to reimburse his private attorney, for lobbying he used to do on behalf of the energy industry, the Associated Press reports....


A blockade on the only road leading to the Kanesatake Mohawk reserve in Quebec, Canada, was taken down on Wednesday....


Sandra Donaldson, Dartmouth College: "I read the recent column by Lloyd Omdahl, which gave his opinion that Native Americans are not successful in American society....


The US Army Criminal Investigation Division considers its investigation of the death of West Point Sgt....


The Eastern Band of Cherokees is too busy to meet with Lumbee tribal leaders, The Fayetteville Observer reports....

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A treaty-based right to affirmative action is unconstitutionally permissible, a lawyer for three white students who were denied admission to the University of Michigan told the Supreme Court on Tuesday....

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An historic Army fort that was the subject of a closely watched Supreme Court case reflects 130 years of changing Indian policy, the White Mountain Apache Tribe's top historic preservationist said on Tuesday....


The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two cases challenging the affirmative action policies of the University of Michigan....


The Rhode Island Special House Commission to Study Gaming released a 133-page report on Tuesday calling for a special state election to authorize the development of one casino....


Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin are going to file a state lawsuit against Democrat Governor Jim Doyle to oppose a new tribal gaming compact....


The House Resources Committee is holding a field hearing on Saturday in Kaktovik, an Inupiat Eskimo village....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is planning a $99 million casino and infrastructure expansion project....


The Minnesota House Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Committee voted 10-8 against a plan to build an urban casino that would support two remote Ojibwe tribes....


The Montana House voted 59-41 to kill a proposal that would have created a special entertainment and casino district....


The Montana House Taxation Committee considered a bill that would raise taxes on video gambling machines and direct some of the money to tribal colleges....


The Mission San Xavier del Bac on the Tohono O'odham Reservation in Arizona has a new pastor....


Universities and colleges offer programs to increase the number of American Indian and Alaska Native teachers, the Associated Press reports....


The Senate voted 58-41, largely along party lines, to confirm Timothy Tymkovich, a Colorado attorney, to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals....


A Crow elder will receive an honorary doctorate from Montana State University....


Jessica Lynch, an Army soldier who is a member of the same unit as Lori Piestewa, a Hopi woman considered missing in action, has been rescued....


After ten weeks, testimony in the trial of a Joshua Wade, charged with raping an murdering an Alaska Native woman, ended on Tuesday....


Navajo Nation farmers in northern New Mexico are being offered money if they stop planting crops for the year and shut down their irrigation systems....


A group of 200 bison have wandered out of Yellowstone National Park, the Associated Press reports....


Members of the Kanesatake Mohawk First Nation in Quebec, Canada, continued their blockade of the only road leading to the reserve....


A second "Walk for Justice" will be held on Thursday for Lucas Grey Day-Ghost Bear, a Lakota man who was shot by a police officer in Rapid City, South Dakota, on March 9....


The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that most of the information in tribal casino audits must be made public....


An Alaska Native corporate executive is promoting Native ownership of a proposed gas pipeline....


Arlo Looking Cloud, 49, has pleaded innocent to one charge of first-degree murder for the 1976 death of American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash....


There are more than 12,000 American Indians, Alaska Natives and Canadian Aboriginals serving in the U.S....


The Senate Indian Affairs Committee holds a hearing today on the reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act....

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The Supreme Court tackled on Monday what was arguably one of its most difficult cases of the current term, debating whether to intrude on the rights of tribal governments....

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With at least three Supreme Court justices "hostile" to tribal interests, Indian law experts on Monday forecast a tight ruling in the latest sovereignty dispute....


Senator Pete Domenici today submitted a request for an additional $7.1 million to complete construction at the Navajo Preparatory School in Farmington, funding needed to close the gap between projected costs and actual needs to finish the project....


Six tribal sites along the Missouri River in South Dakota are up for placement on the National Register of Historic Places....


A bronze miniature of the Chief Crazy Horse monument in South Dakota has been located at a home in Minnesota, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports....


The Navajo Nation shut down an overcrowded detention facility because it failed to correct health, safety and other violations, The Farmington Daily Times reports....


Private Fuel Storage (PFS) said it would reduce the size of a proposed nuclear waste facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah in order to respond to safety concerns....


The Bush administration won't ask the Supreme Court to force the state of California to accept off-shore drilling, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton said on Monday....


Facing a threat from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Crow Tribe of Montana has hired a former federal prosecutor to clean up its court system....


Senator Pete Domenici today endorsed establishing a specific funding level to ensure stable support for a federal program expected to help New Mexico’s Indian tribes promote small business growth. Domenici, a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, is among a bipartisan group of Senators who are formally requesting increased funding for the Native American Business Development Centers (NABDCs) program within the U.S....


Representative Tom Udall, D-N.M., Monday confirmed that the House has passed legislation he introduced to stimulate economic development on Native American lands by assisting in the creation and expansion of small businesses owned by American Indian tribe members....


The state of South Dakota says figuring out how much tribal members are owed for gasoline taxes paid on the reservation is a big mess....


The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians are working with an Oregon senator to regain control of 63,000 acres of land....


Members of the Mohawk First Nation in Quebec, Canada, backed by traditional leaders, have erected a blockade on the only road leading into the reserve....


The Chippewa Tribe of Montana held a ceremony on Monday for tribal members who are in the military....


The Supreme Court today hears oral arguments in a case challenging the affirmative action policies of the University of Michigan....


A California county asked the Supreme Court on Monday to require tribal governments to submit to state search warrants....


The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday refused to allow a group of Native Hawaiians to become involved in a suit challenging Native Hawaiian trust programs....


"Lloyd Omdahl, as my mother would say, certainly put his foot in his mouth this time....


The Tulalip Tribes of Washington is putting the finishing touches on a 227,000-square-foot casino facility that a tribal official says will complement a retail business park....


The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Nevada has been awarded an Environmental Protection Agency grant to restore wetlands on the reservation....

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The Supreme Court hears its only Indian law case of the current term today by entering familiar territory: dueling tribal and state sovereignties....

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With hundreds of Native soldiers deployed in the Middle East, the war against Iraq is already on the minds of many in Indian Country....


A white buffalo is extremely rare: only 1 in about 200,000 are born white, The Salt Lake Tribune reports....


A supermarket chain near the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico won't sell hairspray and mouthwash on Sundays because the items are being used to make alcoholic drinks....


Research appearing in the Journal of World Prehistory contends that climate change, and not ancestors of today's American Indians, killed off the large mammals that once roamed North and South America....


An Arizona Republican serving in the State Legislature suggested that the Hopi Tribe leave its ancestral homeland due to lack of water and economic opportunity, The Arizona Republic reports....


Schools on Montana's reservations are promoting healthy eating among students in order to combat diabetes, obesity and other health problems....


"It is time to listen to the old and new songs of Native people....


Alejandro Toledo took office in July 2001 as Peru's first democratically-elected president of Indian descent, riding on promises of social and government reform....


The Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT) are asking to be exempted from gaming compacts approved by the Department of Interior and by Arizona voters....


"Everybody" is a winner with a court ruling that allows the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska to offer certain casino games, The Lincoln Journal Star says in an editorial today....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton said the Bush administration has not given up plans to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....


Comic Bill Cosby spoke to students on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Reservation on Sunday, urging them to continue their education....


The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida should not enjoy exclusive sovereignty of their lands, The St....


The Indian Association at the University of North Dakota are holding the school's 34th annual Time-Out and Wacipi Celebration this week....


The South Dakota Supreme Court last month barred the state from taxing gasoline that tribal members buy on reservations....


"Some Native Americans are hanging their economic dreams on casinos....


The family of Lori Piestewa, a Hopi woman missing in action in Iraq shouldn't give up hope of finding her, relatives of other missing military service members said....


The Native American Rights Fund, National Congress of American Indians, and the Washington, DC Chapter of the Native American Bar Association will sponsor a panel discussion of Inyo County v Bishop Paiute Tribe on: Monday, March 31st, 2003 1:30-3:00PM Room 485 Senate Russell Building Washington, D.C. Program Overview: The issue in Inyo County v....


Parties: Inyo County (Petition) [PDF] Inyo County - Appendix (Petition) [PDF] Bishop Paiute Tribe - Opposition (Petition) [PDF] Inyo County - Reply (Petition) [PDF] Inyo County (Merits) [PDF] Joint Appendix (Merits) [PDF] Bishop Paiute Tribe (Merits) [PDF] Amicus - Bishop Paiute Tribe National Congress of American Indians, et....


A study by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas shows that California tribes treat their employees better than tribes in other states....


With just three or four fluent speakers remaining, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe of Washington is trying to revitalize the Klallam language....

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