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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....


The Bush administration is proposing to allow waste from coal mining to be dumped in waterways....


The full House Energy and Commerce Committee voted on Thursday to approve the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository....


A Department of Interior panel has approved an experimental project aimed at saving an endangered fish in the Grand Canyon....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton has asked for a fast review of a decision on drilling near a national park in Utah, The Salt Lake Tribune reports today....


The Senate on Thursday approved its version of the energy bill....


A joint House-Senate conference on Thursday cut $175 million in funds for the Klamath Basin....


Students at Ruth N Bond Elementary School in Kirtland, New Mexico, celebrated Native American history and culture this week....


The last public hearing on a proposed nuclear waste facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah is being held today....


PBS will air an adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel "Skinwalkers," this fall....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is playing host a Canadian First Nation this week....


Still recuperating at a secret location since nearly being shot to death, Jim Shore isn't planning on quitting his job as general counsel for the Seminole Tribe of Florida....


The Sand Creek Massacre site in Colorado is closer to reality thanks to a casino company....


Tesuque Pueblo officials say they are being left out of a highway improvement project in New Mexico because of their strong stance on sovereignty....


Native men in Florida are heading up single families more than their non-Indian counterparts....


Two Inupiat brothers who froze to death in Alaska may have been turned away from an Anchorage shelter....


An investigation into the Indian Health Service clinic on the Crow Reservation has been going on longer than expected, a regional spokesperson has told The Billings Gazette....


A pre-trial hearing was held in federal court in Montana on Thursday to address a lawsuit against the Crow Tribe....


"Is he bluffing, or does Chief Leaford Bearskin really intend to open that casino-in-a-trailer-park across from City Hall in Kansas City, Kan.? "We're not bluffing," said the duly elected head of the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma....

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After nearly two decades of legal wrangling, all parties in a dispute over the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico agreed on Wednesday that the issue needed resolution....

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A former Clinton administration official came under fire on Wednesday for an 11th-hour legal opinion that favored a New Mexico tribe's controversial land claim....


A 29-year-old traditional Crow cradleboard is getting some new use....


The parties to a lawsuit over Native voting rights are asking a federal judge for an extension....


After surviving three gunshot wounds at close range, Jim Shore, the general counsel for the Seminole Tribe of Florida, is recuperating under armed guard....


Everything about the National Museum of the American Indian under construction in Washington, D.C., will be Native....


The Department of Interior is opposing a $250 million water project on the Rocky Boy's Reservation in Montana....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs has adopted a new policy on driving by employees....


"In many parts of our world, ruins are prized and promoted for a variety of educational and economic benefits....


Two Senate committees held a joint hearing on Wednesday to address a bill that settles Sandia Pueblo's claim to the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico....


A New Mexico jury on Wednesday said a man should die for murdering a Navajo woman....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs hasn't assigned a cause to a recent fire on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in southern New Mexico....


Environmentalists and fishermen have asked a federal judge for a temporary restraining order on water in the Klamath River....


The Senate is finalizing work on an energy policy bill in preparation for a vote today....


THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2002 A Republican-drafted report linking the Irish Republican Army to leftists rebels in Colombia was criticized at a House hearing on Wednesday....


The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island has found great local support for a casino....


Two Maine tribes said they won't seek to host a casino in the town of Kittery....


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Deputy Secretary of Interior Steven Griles tried to suppress a report critical of efforts to drill in the Powder River Basin, The Washington Post reports today....


Next time you eat some potato chips, you just might be eating Navajo potatoes....


Bones and other items found at a site in Arizona are being repatriated to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Tribe....


Arizona tribes would be required to disclose how much money the make from their casinos and how it is used....

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The Supreme Court dealt a blow to a group of private landowners in Nevada and California, finding that temporary prohibitions on development do not violate the U.S....

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The Bush administration's attempt to define its obligations to 300,000 American Indians was dealt a major setback with the release of a critical document on Tuesday....


A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Tuesday voted to approve Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the nation's nuclear waste repository....


A New Mexico man convicted of murdering a Navajo mother cried in court on Tuesday, begging jurors not to sentence him to death....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut opened its new hotel on Tuesday....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is settling a lawsuit over a proposed golf course and resort....


Reconsideration of a rejected gaming bill has been delayed in the Arizona Legislature....


Author Jeff Benedict has forced a delegate primary in a Connecticut town in order to stay in a hotly contested race in the state's 2nd Congressional district....


The Department of Interior is beginning a formal consultation process with states, tribes and local governments on management plans for 15 national monuments....


Shareholders of an Alaska Native corporation are reacting with surprise to news that former executive and his main opponent are teaming up to gain control of Cook Inlet Region Inc....


A federal judge in Michigan has ruled the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Ojibwe Indians is operating its casino legally....


The Arizona Legislature has passed a bill urging Congress to reauthorize the Indian Health Care Improvement Act....


The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is continuing hearings on a proposed nuclear waste storage facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah....


Arson is being suspected in a fire that burned more than 200 acres on the Rocky Boy's Reservation in Montana....


A fire broke out Tuesday on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in southern New Mexico....


Two people have been charged for the death of a man on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana....


The rags-to-riches story of the Tigua Tribe of Texas is written up in the Christian Science Monitor today....


Tribal leaders and preservationists are welcoming an oil company's decision not to drill at a sacred site in Montana....


Senator Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) is opposing a bill to settle Sandia Pueblo's land claim to the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico....


The Senate is set to vote Thursday on the energy bill without provisions allowing drilling on Alaska Native lands in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....


Ross Swimmer is uniquely qualified to handle the Indian trust, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb told The Tulsa World this week....


Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas has canceled summer school for lack of funding....


An archaeologist went digging for graves in wetlands near Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas, apparently without consulting tribes and affected Indians....


It's time for the second installment of our First Annual In The Hoop Reader Appreciation Survey! We've received an overwhelming response to yesterday's survey, and you can still send in your answers to that one....


Members of the Shiprock chapter of the Navajo Nation don't want their leader to quit....

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Drug courts operating in communities and reservations throughout the country cannot prove they reduce repeat offenses, one of the key measures of success, the General Accounting Office reported on Monday. But that doesn't mean the courts aren't working, Congressional researchers said....

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Senator Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) asked Secretary of Interior Gale Norton last week to investigate Bureau of Indian Affairs deputy Wayne Smith....

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The Supreme Court took its first Indian law case of the term on Monday, agreeing to resolve a dispute over an old Army fort housing a tribal school and other crumbling buildings....

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In The Hoop celebrated its first birthday last week with such little fanfare that we decided to prolong the event by creating our very first annual In The Hoop Reader Appreciation Survey! Over the next few days, we will be asking you for your input on how to make In The Hoop even more exciting....


The Pentagon is reviewing actions taken by the American military during the temporary ouster of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, The New York Times reports today....


Research published in today's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences cites evidence of domestic violence among Neanderthals....


A former employee of the Mohegan Tribe pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing from the Connecticut tribe's casino....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut will open its new hotel today....


A petition to legalize video slots in bars in Nebraska has been dropped....


The town council in Kittery, Maine, voted last night to reject any and all casino development....


The Grand River First Nation of Ontario doesn't want to open a casino in Pennsylvania, band officials said....


The Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in a case affecting the use of the death penalty....


The Supreme Court on Monday said it would review a case affecting the rights of anti-abortion protesters....


A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with the death of a man on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana....


"Friday and Saturday of last week was my first time in Ontario. Springtime is a magnificent time to make that trip....


Members of the Northern Ute Tribe of Utah went to Colorado over the weekend to meet with a king from Uganda....


The Anchorage Native Primary Care Center is finally complete....


Oklahoma University men's basketball coach Kelvin Sampson will be honored as Ambassador of the Year by the Red Earth organization....


Residents of the Connecticut town of North Stonington have approved spending an additional $58,000 to fight the federal recognition bids of the Eastern Pequot Tribe and the Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Tribe....


A complaint from the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association spurred a probe into the handling of a child molestation case on the remote St. George Island....


Testimony in a case challenging police services provided to Alaska Native villages was winding up last week The court heard from police officers who said the villages are receiving adequate protection even though funding has dropped by a third. Experts on both sides of the issue testified about crime in rural villages, with one saying Native residents feel safer than urban ones....


A University of Tulsa student has completed a study of homes in the Tar Creek Superfund area....


A judge in New Mexico on Monday sentenced a man to 46 years for the killing of a Navajo woman....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton celebrated Earth Day on Monday in Florida....


President Bush and Al Gore debated one another on Monday, except someone forgot to tell Bush and someone told Gore the contest was in Tennessee....


The national ombudsman of the Environmental Protection Agency resigned from his post on Monday night....


An oil company owned by billionaire Philip Anschutz has dropped plans to drill in a site considered sacred to a number of tribes....


A lawsuit was filed against the state of Montana by 21 former inmates of a youth detention facility....


Things are looking up for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts....


Harvard University in Massachusetts is playing host to a tribal constitutional reform conference in May....

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The federal government is no closer to fixing the broken Indian trust than it was seven years ago when Congress dictated numerous reforms, a senior Department of Interior official has told a small group of tribal leaders and outside advisers....

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The Supreme Court is set to announce today whether it will accept a case the Bush administration has pitted as pivotal to the future of the Indian trust....


The Institute of American Indian Arts Museum in New Mexico hosted its third annual Children's Day on Sunday....


The Navajo Nation council last week voted to allow three health care facilities to contract health services from the Indian Health Service....


Members of the Jicarilla Apache Nation of New Mexico are working with the University of New Mexico to create a dictionary of their language....


Three lawmakers introduced legislation last week that would further scuttle Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's proposal to create an Indian trust agency....


"I am a white guy and I am not a racist....


Leaders and officials in New Hampshire are increasingly speaking out against a proposal tribal casino in Maine....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is responding to concerns about worker safety....


The retired former president and CEO of Cook Inlet Regional Inc., an Alaska Native regional corporation, is planning a comeback....


There is opposition to Indian gaming in New York state, playing itself out in the courts and the statehouse....


"My wife and I went to the school gym to watch [our daughter] Frances participate in a "Patriotism Assembly," a musical program in which students dressed as figures from American history and, between patriotic songs, stepped up to the microphone and briefly described their role in the building of this great nation....


Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) refused to comment last week about a proposal to allow drilling on Native-owned lands in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....


President Bush is promoting Earth Day with the "Clear Skies" initiative, one of his new environmental priorities....


Students from Haskell Indian Nations University took part in a protest of a proposed highway project in Kansas....


African-Americans have always been a part of the Seminole Nation, a writer for the New York Times says....


A jury in New Mexico will hear testimony this week before deciding whether a man they found guilty or murdering a Navajo woman should be put to death....


When Jan Gangelhoff was questioned by federal prosecutors for her role in a cheating scandal at the University of Minnesota, she said she brought some powerful help with her....


Flush with casino profits, the Prairie Island Dakota Tribe of Minnesota has donated $37,000 recently to Republicans....


A former business partner of Wayne Smith, the deputy to Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb, promised potential tribal clients great access to the federal government....


It will take months for the Department of Interior to recover from its Internet shutdown, a senior official has told Government Executive Magazine....


"I'm a transplant to the Grand Forks area, and I feel it is my home, but there are times when I am not so proud of some things in the community....


The prospect of transferring thousands of acres of federal forest land to the Klamath Tribes of Oregon has some non-Indians worried....