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Attorneys for Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Thursday said the Bush administration won't support additional judicial oversight of trust reform unless their demands are met....

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A court official hurled another salvo against the Department of Interior on Thursday as part of a particularly acrimonious investigation that has lasted more than a year....

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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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The state of Kansas on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for officials of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, escalating a fight over a inter-tribal commerce gas deal....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is willing to spend $7 million on a regional water project to ensure its new hotel gets needed water....


The Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma is moving forward with plans to open a casino in Kansas against objections from the state....


The Navajo Nation Council on Thursday voted to restore $2 million in funds to the Navajo Preparatory School....


The Otoe-Missouria Tribe has asked treasurer Linda Francis to respond to allegations of misuse of funds....


Representative Frank Wolf (R-Va.), an anti-casino advocate and federal recognition critic, is opposing an effort to pay three Connecticut towns for their failed lawsuit....


Democrat Congressional hopeful Jeff Benedict is claiming he is being muscled out of a chance to represent voters in Connecticut....


Senate Republicans will introduce their proposal to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge next Tuesday....


"A good friend (non-Indian) has been trying for over three years to get visitation with his son who was taken to the reservation by his (part) Native American mother....


The US Fish and Wildlife Service has begun moving elk from the Hanford Reach National Monument to the Spokane Reservation in Washington....


The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday passed a bill to reauthorize the Community Oriented Police Services (COPS) program....


The International Criminal Court was officially created on Thursday by the United Nations....


A subsistence halibut fishery used for thousands of years in Alaska has been approved by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council....


The Indian mascot of the Issaquah High School in Washington is under debate....


A request to add an Indian Cultural Day as a school holiday was rejected by a New Mexico school district....


The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday annulled the marriage of a 15-year-old girl to a 48-year-old man....


A regional Bureau of Indian Affairs official in Montana on Thursday admitted he didn't properly inform Chippewa-Cree Nation tribal members of a vote on tribal enrollment....


A Chicago company on Thursday filed a lawsuit in federal court to try and force approval of a kitty litter plant in Nevada....


The state of Kansas continues to assert jurisdiction over an inter-tribal commerce deal....


Native Americans will commit crimes in Indian Country because they know they can get away with them, a chief of police in New Mexico told The New York Times....


The Washington Post today issued a clarification on a commentary which said tribes received "reparations" for lost land....


The trial of a New Mexico man accused of murdering a Navajo mother continued on Thursday with graphic descriptions of her death....


Two Maine tribes have dropped their objection to state control of water quality on and near their reservations....


The FBI official who authored a report which explained away the deaths of dozens of American Indians during the 1970s has been promoted....


Special master Alan Balaran on Thursday released a report criticizing the Department of Interior's records management policies....


A Democrat opponent of drilling in the House accused Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Thursday of breaking the law....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton might be forced into deciding who owns a set of 10,000-year-old human remains an independent review panel said should go to a Nevada tribe....

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The Department of Interior and the Cobell plaintiffs today filed their responses to a proposed extension of court monitor Joseph S....

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The White House on Wednesday made an urgent pitch to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, saying Saddam Hussein of Iraq was moving to cut off his supply of oil to the U.S....

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Now here's a tribal enterprise In The Hoop can get behind....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut has established its own drug court....


The National Museum of the American Indian in New York City this month will hold a special tribute to honor the Mohawk men who helped build the now fallen World Trade Center complex....


Arthur Andersen is near entering a guilty plea for destroying documents related to the fall of Enron, The New York Times reports today....


Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge on Wednesday held his first Congressional briefing....


The House on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led attempt to scuttle reforms brought about the campaign finance reform bill....


President Bush on Wednesday called on the Senate to ban all types of human cloning....


A federal judge on Wednesday ordered mediation between the state of Wyoming and the Northern Arapaho Tribe....


As part of a casino study approved in Rhode Island, local laws will be examined....


The Arizona House on Wednesday approved a bill affecting a proposed $350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium....


A Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee on Wednesday held an oversight hearing on the Superfund program....


The Department of Energy on Wednesday released 950 pages of documents related to President Bush's national energy task force....


Representatives of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe were on hand Wednesday for the official transfer of coal tracts to the state of Montana. A member of the tribal council and a tribal elder expressed hope that that development of the highly lucrative Otter Coal Tracts would benefit the local community and be done in a culturally sensitive way....


A proposal to replace Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and Columbus Day with holidays for Veterans Day and Indian Cultural Day is raising flak in New Mexico....


Colorado filmmaker Don Vasicek is planning a documentary of the Sand Creek Massacre....


"The recent P-I article about the imminent loss of two Native American outreach workers at DSHS was right on target, except where it perpetuated the invisibility of Native people who live in the margins of our urban areas....


The Chicago company hoping to start a kitty litter plant on land next to a Nevada reservation might get a chuckle knowing that some people at the Department of Interior support the product....


The Navajo Nation Council on Tuesday tabled a proposal to take over health contracting from the Indian Health Service....


Testimony in the trial of a New Mexico man charged with murdering a Navajo mother continued on Wednesday....


The state of Nevada on Wednesday shut off water to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project....


The House Resources Committee next week will hold a hearing on a bill to compensate three Oklahoma for the loss of land on the Arkansas River....


The courts may end up deciding whether the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska owes gas taxes for distributing oil to fellow tribes....


Senate Republicans on Wednesday tried to force debate on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....


The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is considering whether jet crashes might be a threat to a nuclear waste facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah....


A non-Native police offer in Ontario, Canada, was demoted on Wednesday for distributing a picture of an injured Aboriginal man on the Internet....


A non-Indian man is asking a federal court to award him $158,000 for what he claims was a lost jackpot at the casino owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut....

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Attorneys for the federal government admit the Department of Interior destroyed evidence and information related to the Indian trust but have told a federal judge the Bush administration cannot be held accountable....

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Calling college alcohol use a "culture of drinking," a national task force on Tuesday recommended wide-sweeping changes aimed at reducing student deaths, rapes and other consequences associated with the campus phenomenon....

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If you believe Secretary of Interior Gale Norton, the Clinton administration is to blame for everything that is wrong with Indian trust. TAAMS....


The state of Oregon on Tuesday filed suit against the Department of Interior over the status of reservation lands for the Confederated Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Tribes....


New York played host to its first gaming summit on Tuesday....


The Narragansett Tribe's casino bid was delayed on Tuesday when the Rhode Island House approved a study of gaming in the state....


Federal recognition and casino critic Jeff Benedict says he won't drop out of the running for Connecticut's 2nd Congressional District....


A New York attorney who once defended the Mohawk Warriors was indicted on Tuesday for allegedly helping pass terrorist messages among Islamic fundamentalists....


Students from Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico helped pay tribute to the survivors of the Bataan Death March on Tuesday....


Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) on Tuesday said more than 30 Democrats are prepared to sustain the state of Nevada's veto of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site....


"Years ago, the Indians were not allowed to buy or use alcohol, but they said it was unfair, so the legislature said, OK, they could drink....


In an editorial today, The Norwich Bulletin says tribes in Connecticut have a right to set up their own court systems and resolve disputes which occur on the reservation....


In a guest column in The Seattle Times, two members of a group called Citizens for Safety and Environment dispute traffic statistics cited for an outdoor amphitheater the Muckleshoot Tribe hopes to build....


Blaine County in Montana on Tuesday night held the second in a series of meetings to reconsider its voting system....


Faced with a dwindling fishery, the tiny Seri Tribe of Mexico has taken to the waters to defend its natural resources....


The Department of Interior will transfer a set of coal tracts to the state of Montana today....


The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Nevada is pushing for more water for the endangered cui-ui fish....


Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will have little impact on the Porcupine caribou herd, according to Sen....


Six Sioux tribes in South Dakota are challenging recent approval of a $1.5 billion rail expansion through the Black Hills....


Noted treaty rights advocate Billy Frank Jr....


A dispute over heritage has the tiny Buena Vista Me-Wuk Tribe of California lacking of leadership and tribal members....


Testimony in the murder trial of a New Mexico accused of murdering a Navajo mother continued on Tuesday....


An internal audit has found abuse of Department of Interior credit cards....


The Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute is building a 64,000-square-foot, $12 million science and technology on its New Mexico campus....


The state of Kansas on Tuesday seized two gas delivery trucks owned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska....


Dwain Foster, an Aleut fisherman from Sand Point, has been recognized by the Alaska Legislature for helping rescue numerous people over the years....

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Reversing findings made by government scientists a week earlier, the Department of Interior has concluded that drilling in a limited part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will not greatly affect a caribou herd at the center of the controversial debate....

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Did you hear the one about a prominent tribal leader who wasn't recognized by one of his own constituents? At a benefit for the Phoenix Indian Center last month, said leader approached a helpful-looking woman to find out where his table was located....

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Nearly a year after President Bush made his first nominations to the federal bench, only three of his initial picks have received a hearing in the Senate, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday....


Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn (R) on Monday announced his veto of President Bush's decision to store up to 77,000 tons of nuclear waste at the Yucca Mountain site outside of Las Vegas....


The state of New York has asked the state Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump and anti-casino groups....


A large turnout was reported at a hearing held on Monday by the Arizona Legislature to address gaming....


A growing set of research is fueling the debate over cancer screenings, casting doubt on the claim that early testing will lead to better treatment....


The Lummi Nation of Washington is opening a new $20 million casino today....


Ignoring a federal judge's order, the Department of Justice is refusing to release documents related to a terrorism investigation....


The Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Idaho will continue collecting a 25-cent-per-gallon gas tax and use it for transportation projects on reservation, city, county and possibly state roads....


In an editorial today, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader raises doubts about a voting rights lawsuit filed on behalf of members of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota....


A Montana couple has asked the State Supreme Court to dismiss their appeal of an order that prevented the transfer of some elk to the Crow Tribe....


The Mohegan Tribe's offer to pay $7 million for a regional Connecticut water project is gaining support....


The state of Montana still hasn't fulfilled its constitutional promise to teach about Indian cultures, educators and officials said on Monday....


Testimony in a case challenging how Alaska Native communities are served by the justice system in Alaska continued on Monday....


Federal prosecutors in New Mexico on Monday said they have reached an agreement with a Bureau of Indian Affairs employee charged with murder....


Opening arguments and testimony in the murder trial of a New Mexico accused of murdering a Navajo mother began on Monday....


United Shawnee Principal Chief Jim Oyler is raising doubts about a bill aimed at cleaning up a decommissioned Army plant, Bond Buyer reports today....


Veteran musher Fred Jordan was killed Saturday in a snowmachine accident....


The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska has taken a traditional approach to combating type 2 diabetes, a disease in epidemic stages in Indian Country....


Depending on who you ask, Republicans in the Senate are going to offer an amendment to an energy bill allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or they are going to abandon the issue....


"Sometimes, though, we treat the deliberate killing of civilians with reverence, or at least feel a special moral pride in our refusal to condemn it....


A federal judge on Tuesday warned ex-Arthur Andersen partner David Duncan he could face prison time for pleading guilty to obstruction of justice related to the destruction of documents for Enron....


The Northern Arapaho Tribe and the state of Wyoming have failed to come to an agreement on a Class III gaming compact....


The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board on Monday night held the first in a series of Utah field hearings on a plan to store nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation....

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Performance rates at the Department of Interior fell 8 percent during the first year of the Bush administration, a drop attributed to a lack of leadership....

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Federal goverment fined on trust fund as lawsuit heats up, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge report dismissed by Bush administration, high smoking among Native youth documented, and Indian gaming debated....

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American Indians and Alaska Natives experienced the worst rate of violent crime in the nation in 2000, according to a Department of Justice study released on Sunday....


The Arizona Legislature will hold a hearing on three bills affecting gaming in the state....


Blaine County in Montana will hold a series of public hearings to redraw voting districts after a federal judge found the existing system discriminates against Native Americans....


First Nations in British Columbia are challenging a voter referendum on treaty rights....


A former New Mexico state lawmaker is being sued by Santa Ana Pueblo for a failed investment in an overseas business deal....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut on Friday said it fired Arthur Andersen as its auditor....


The Navajo Nation is missing out on millions of dollars because the tribe hasn't asserted its water rights, according to a tribal hydrologist....


An investigation into a civil rights complaint filed by an Alaska Native student against the University of Alaska at Anchorage has turned up no wrongdoing at the school....


The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will begin holding technical and public hearings on a proposed nuclear waste storage facility on the Skull Goshute Reservation in Utah....


A special session of the Alaska Legislature will begin May 15 to address subsistence....


The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that a hog farm company doesn't have the right to run a facility on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. Sun Prairie filed suit against the Bureau of Indian Affairs after acting Assistant Secretary James McDivitt voided a lease between the company and the tribe....


"I've had it with you people....


As part of a greater effort to protect 4,000-mile U.S....


The Alaska Anthropological Association recently held its annual meeting, featuring more than 100 reports about Alaska Native history....


The No Borders Indigenous Theater Company performed at the Montana-Wyoming Indian Education Association conference on Sunday....


The third annual Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council health conference began in Billings, Montana, on Sunday....


Haskell Indian Nations University will host the American Heart Association Heart Walk on April 20....


A Connecticut man who claims to be the rightful leader of the Mohegan Tribe says he has been ripped off by a group of artists selling Indian crafts....


A battle over a proposed kitty litter operation in Nevada is shaping up as a key test of an 1872 mining law....


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David Duncan, the former Arthur Andersen partner who was the lead accountant for Enron, will plead guilty today to one federal charge of obstruction of justice for destroying documents related to the burnt energy company....


The Senate Judiciary Committee is delaying hearings on nominees Democrats on the panel consider too conservative for the federal bench....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's political aides pushed for a re-evaluation of a report which said drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would hurt a caribou herd considered sacred by an Alaskan tribe....