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Some of Indian Country's strongest advocates voted on Thursday to support efforts to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development....

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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 judge on Thursday halted the pending transfer of 32,000 boxes of Indian trust records, expressing concern about their safety in the wake of a highly critical court investigation....


Under a 1944 treaty, the United States and Mexico are to exchange water to meet each other's needs....


President Bush on Thursday made his first public remarks on the temporary ouster of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez....


The Department of Justice on Thursday withdrew its offer to settle federal obstruction of justice charges against accounting firm Arthur Andersen....


The General Accounting Office has confirmed $14,000 worth of damages to the White House by former Clinton administration staffers, The Washington Times reports....


The Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico has finalized an agreement over the management of the Mexican spotted owl....


A provision in the farm bill under debate in the Senate could lead to the slaughter of more bison in Yellowstone National Park, according to critics....


Protesters have been barred from entering an Indian health clinic in Minnesota....


The family of a 70-year-old man who died at a nursing home owned by the Blackfeet Nation of Montana is planning legal action in the case....


A Wisconsin high school has dropped its 100-year-old "Indians" mascot....


Rick West, the director of the National Museum of the American Indian, spoke at a historic preservation conference on Thursday....


Fannie Mae has altered its mortgaging policies for homes on trust land....


A federal judge in Utah has upheld a National Park Service policy aimed at protecting the Rainbow Bridge, considered sacred by a number of tribes....


Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has filed documents with the Bureau of Indian Affairs challenging the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation....


Three Oklahoma tribes are asking Congress to finalize a $50 million settlement for land and trust assets along the Arkansas River bed....


Sandia Pueblo in New Mexico is seeking the support of a local county for its unresolved land claim....


The Department of Interior is moving to open up drilling in the Rocky Mountains....


By rejecting an attempt to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, the Senate has handed President Bush a stunning defeat, the analysts are saying....


Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is planning on introducing a measure to allow Inupiat Eskimos to drill on land they own in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....


A tribe recognized by the state of New York has proposed to build a high-stakes bingo hall in the Catskills....


A jury in New Mexico on Thursday convicted a man of first-degree murder charges for stabbing a Navajo woman to death....


A federal judge on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Interior to protect records belonging to American Indians....


The White House is looking into allegations that a former business partner of Wayne Smith, the deputy to Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb, is exploiting his ties to get lobbying work, Al Kamen of The Washington Post reports today....


Members of an activist group protesting the sale of liquor to American Indians were cited for drinking beer at a public hearing in Nebraska on Thursday....

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But in this case, they never went away! After saying it would stop using Indian imagery, West Virginia's 4-H chapter has changed its mind, The Washington Times reports today. Turns out the chapter got the wrong impression from the Department of Agriculture, which provides $4.5 million in federal funds through the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service and can't tell the group what to do with the money....

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A federal judge is being urged by a court investigator to take immediate action against the Department of Interior in order to protect 300,000 American Indians....

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House Democrats clashed with tribal leaders on Wednesday over a proposal to prevent labor unions from taking a piece of the $10 billion and growing Indian gaming industry....

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Attorneys representing 300,000 American Indians have asked a federal judge to halt a proposed move of 32,000 boxes of trust fund records....


A bill to implement gaming compacts with Arizona's tribes died on Wednesday by a procedural vote....


A former Indian Health Service nurse has pleaded guilty in federal court to federal conspiracy charges....


In an editorial today, The Farmington Daily-Times praises the Navajo Nation council for overriding a veto and restoring $2 million in funds for a tribal school....


James Al Hendrix, father of guitar great Jimi Hendrix, died on Wednesday at the age of 82....


Archaeologists working in Peru have discovered more than 2,000 well-preserved Inca mummies....


Research published in today's issue of Nature suggests human ancestors roamed with dinosaurs more than 80 million years ago....


Noted author and scholar Joe Sando of Jemez Pueblo will give a talk on Indian and Spanish relations today in New Mexico....


Faced with a lawsuit in its court, the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma is blasting a former gaming partner....


Organizers of major conventions are pulling out from western New York because the Seneca Nation hasn't yet set up a casino, local officials said. It was hoped a temporary casino could have been up and running already at the Niagara Falls convention center....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut won official endorsement on Wednesday for its $7 million regional water project....


The Bush administration on Wednesday denied a senior State Department official spoke with the leader of a coup that temporarily ousted Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez....


Republicans are said to be lacking even a simple majority to support oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....


A federal judge on Wednesday instructed a government attorney to start identifying records related to the roundup and killing of bison near the Yellowstone National Park....


A federal judge in Oregon on Wednesday rejected the Bush administration's attempt to block an assisted suicide law....


The Environmental Protection Agency is doing some behind the scenes moving of its own this week, raising suspicious about an internal power conflict....


Members of a House panel on Wednesday criticized a utility's plan to build a power line through land owned by a California tribe....


Representatives of the Six Nations Confederacy are in Pennsylvania to push plans for a casino....


The prospects of a Miami Nation casino in Indiana have people stirring about the past, the present and the future....


The Blackfeet Nation tribal council has approved a study to determine if building a lodge near Glacier National Park would be economically viable....


The special master in the Cobell class action on Wednesday urged a federal judge to stop the transfer or 32,000 boxes of trust fund records....


A special White House task force is taking requests from the energy industry on ways use public lands for energy development....


The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a hearing on subsistence and fishing issues in Alaska on Wednesday....


Two New York counties have asked a federal judge to certify an appeal of the Cayuga Nation land claim....


A New Mexico man faces the death penalty if convicted of murdering a Navajo woman....


The Wyandotte Nation is setting up a temporary casino in Kansas....


Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico is the city of Santa Fe's second heaviest water user, according to local records....


Walter Toolie, a whaling captain from the Siberian Yup'ik village of Savoonga, was found alive on Wednesday....

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The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust has reappointed a court investigator to keep watch over the Department of Interior but imposed some limits in response to objections raised by the Bush administration....

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Democrats have only themselves to blame for the whole Arctic National Wildlife Refuge debate....

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It's a pitch made every day....

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Special master Alan Balaran, the court investigator in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) class action, issued an "emergency" report today on the pending transfer of 32,000 boxes of trust fund records....


"No cloak of darkness for these guys....


Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed suit against Arthur Andersen on Tuesday....


The Bush administration on Tuesday tried to respond to criticism over its role in the temporary ouster of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez....


Residents of the New York town of Mamakating have asked their leaders to reject a proposed casino....


An Arizona legislative panel approved a bill to implement gaming compacts with the state's tribes....


Congressional hopeful Jeff Benedict took his criticism of Indian gaming to Maine on Tuesday....


The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down portions of a law that banned computer-generated child pornography....


"It is sheer irresponsibility when a story is written based on half-truths, and worse yet, when stories are written that are totally untrue....


Officials in New Mexico have yet to determine the cause of a fire that burned land on and near Pojoaque Pueblo....


All charges have been officialy dropped against a Minnesota woman who admitted writing papers for members of the University of Minnesota men's basketball team....


The National Park Service is implementing most of a Clinton-era ban on personal watercraft....


An accountant for the Fort Yukon Athabascan Tribal Governments in Alaska was found dead on Tuesday....


In an editorial today, The Denver Post says it's all right that Secretary of Interior Gale Norton distributed a video created by a pro-drilling lobbying group....


Former White Mountain Apache chairman Ronnie Lupe is challenging a recent election he lost on the Arizona reservation....


Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) showed more pictures of Inupiat Eskimo children on the Senate floor on Tuesday....


A judge in Minnesota ruled on Tuesday that casino audits submitted by the state's tribes are private....


Darrin McDonald of the Mi'kmaq Big Cove First Nation is planning to fish for lobster this weekend....


Conservationists are opposing a proposed land swap between the National Park Service and the Eastern Band of Cherokees of North Carolina....


A county official in Montana said he regretted a dispute over how commissioners are elected had to be resolved in federal court....


The Oneida Nation of New York on Tuesday issued a statement explaining why it canceled a screening of a movie at Syracuse University....


"These are interesting times for American Indians....


Closing arguments were heard on Tuesday in the trial of a New Mexican man charged with murdering a Navajo mother....


The city of Gary, Indiana, has been negotiating with the Miami Nation of Oklahoma on a casino, mayor Scott King said on Tuesday....


The 27th annual Northwest Indian Youth Conference began in Billings, Montana, on Tuesday....

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US District Judge Royce Lamberth has extended the term of court monitor Joseph S....

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The Denver Post called him a "giant." The Washington Post said his rulings defied ideology....

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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to get involved in a long-running dispute over the ownership of a North Dakota lake, turning away the Spirit Lake Nation's attempt to clarify the muddied issue....

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A federal appeals court on Monday dealt the state of Utah a setback by refusing to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a non-federally recognized tribe. Ruling that the Timpanogos Tribe can have treaty rights without being acknowledged by the federal government, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the state's attempt to have the case thrown out....


Could a New York County have made a worse deal by hooking up with the Modoc Tribe for a casino? It could have hooked up with Donald Trump....


Bush administration officials met with leaders of a group that temporarily ousted Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, The New York Times reports today....


Connecticut's tribes reported an increase in slot machine revenues for the month of March....


A set of gaming bills is set for its first round of votes in the Arizona Legislature today....


The Seneca Nation of New York is promising to include labor unions for upcoming casino and hotel projects....


Changing drinking practices on college campuses starts at home, according to school officials and health experts....


Representative Rob Simmons (R-Conn.) has $1 million in funds for his re-election race, leading the pack for Connecticut's 2nd Congressional District, reports The Norwich Bulletin....


A senior Defense Department official was booed at a pro-Israeli rally in Washington, D.C., on Monday as he suggested Palestinians were being hurt by the Middle East standoff....


The Department of Justice has dropped its lawsuit against the state of Wyoming over the condition of inmates held at the state penitentiary....


A bipartisan panel of pro- and anti-death penalty advocates on Monday recommended limiting the state of Illinois' use of capital punishment....


A group of scientists has asked President Bush to halt all logging on federally owned forests....


A fire burned on and near Pojoaque Pueblo land in northern New Mexico on Monday night....


The North Pacific Fishery Management Council voted unanimously last week on final rules for a subsistence halibut fishery in Alaska....


Two brothers from a Yup'ik village in Alaska froze to death over the weekend....


In its heyday, the Baltimore American Indian Center was flush with cash, operating a host of education, welfare, social and other projects with a $1 million budget....


Three Connecticut towns have written their Congressman to complain about the actions of former Assistant Secretary Kevin Gover....


Animal rights activists on Monday filed a court injunction to stop the Makah Nation of Washington from hunting gray whales....


Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) plans to introduce an amendment to the energy bill that ties drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to aid for retired steel workers....


A Kansas company whose equipment was seized as part of a taxation dispute was delivering gas to a Kansas tribe....


A federally-chartered commission on Monday released its report on fishing on the Burnt Church Reserve in New Brunswick....


Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb's top aide has recused himself from the Chinook Nation's recognition case, TIME magazine reports in its current issue....


A man facing deportation to his native China instead wants to be sent to the Stoney Point Reserve in Ontario....


In an editorial today, The Great Falls Tribune praises efforts to revitalize Native languages in Montana....

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When five American Indians filed a lawsuit seeking a proper accounting of their trust assets, they cited 500,000 fellow plaintiffs in their class action filing....

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Court seeks additional oversight of trust reform, Republicans push drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, state sues for taxes from Winnebago Tribe, and tribe wants old human remains returned....

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In case you didn't remember, it's time to turn in your federal tax return! You've got until midnight tonight to get to the post office and pay tribute to Uncle Sam before he sends the state of Kansas after you and throws you in jail....


The Catholic Bishops of Alaska last week sent a letter to 50,000 Catholics outlining the state's subsistence debate....


It's a sound worse than nails across a chalkboard....


A non-Indian couple has set up a web site that criticizes the Crow Tribe of Montana for not turning over a juvenile to local law enforcement authorities....


The seventh annual Navajo Knowledge Bowl was held in Shiprock, New Mexico, last week....


Dozens of tribal representatives met last week to continue planning for the upcoming Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration of 2003-2006....


Two Indian filmmakers from Bolivia have received an award for promoting the use of video technology in their country....


The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma has told New York Gov....


The Tamastslikt Cultural Institute on the Umatilla Reservation in Oregon is playing host to a traveling exhibit of Indian blankets and glasswork by artist Dale Chihuly....


A New Mexico man who pleaded guilty to killing a Navajo mother took the stand on Friday to testify against his co-defendant....


When it comes to science, Native people and Westerners often see things from different perspectives....


The annual spring session of the Navajo Nation council begins today in Window Rock, Arizona....


Hunters in the Inuit territory of Nunavut, Canada, are getting ready for their annual whale hunt....


The Makah Nation of Washington won't be paying for any whale hunts this year, having cut the entire budget for the controversial exercise of treaty rights....


Native women have the lowest cancer survival rate in the United States, according to federal statistics....


The Arizona Republic is running a series on Indian health, noting the problems and disparate treatment provided to Native Americans....


A series of hearings are being held in Saskatchewan this week to examine the way Aboriginals are treated by the justice system....


The Innu First Nation of Labrador reduced its land claim last year after the federal government threatened to cut off money to the band, CBC reports today....


A member of the Cherokee Nation has been appointed as the federal security director at the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport in Texas....


The Nizipuhwahsin Center is a private school on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana whose goal is to teach the first new generation of tribal members fluent in Piegan....


Researchers who examined thousands of Native American bones found a 50 percent increase in traumatic injuries after the arrival of Columbus....


The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska this week plans on filing suit in federal court in a dispute over gas taxes allegedly owed to the state of Kansas....


The state of Kansas and four tribes are back in court again over a proposed casino....


Sid Hill was installed on Sunday as the spiritual leader of the traditional Iroquois Confederation....