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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 bill to expand the education of Native languages drew so much support at a Senate hearing on Thursday that just about everyone asked to be a part of it....


Alaska Congressman Don Young (R-Alaska), chairman of the House Transportation Committee, wants to spend $375 billion on highway construction and transportation....


The Kickapoo Tribe and the Sac and Fox Nation of Kansas have finalized an urban casino agreement with two local governments....


In 2000, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) sponsored legislation to restore the federal status of the Coast Miwok Tribe....


Senate Republicans plan to resurrect the nomination of Charles Pickering to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals....


Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center have completed a study that shows a drug used for treating seizures also reduces the craving for alcohol....


A Navajo man was sentenced to 25 years to life for murdering a Hopi woman in Arizona....


The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island plans to open a tax-free tobacco shop, The New London Day reports....


The Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona will become the sixth tribe in the country to form its own boxing commission....


The tribes on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming are continuing work on a 20-year land use-development plan....


Katie Baros is graduating with top honors today....


Three students took part in commencement exercises at the Top of the Kuskokwim School in Nikolai, Alaska....


"To be honest, I am not a big fan of George W....


A Tohono O'odham Nation court will hear a suit Monday challenging the way Mexican tribal members are registered to vote....


The Department of Interior held a public hearing on Thursday to discuss handing management of the National Bison Range to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation of Montana....


The Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado can exercise civil jurisdiction over non-members, a tribal court ruled this week....


Oklahoma tribes are negotiating a "model gaming compact" with the state, according to news reports....


New York lawmakers overrode Governor George Pataki's vetoes of their budget measures on Thursday, restoring a provision that directs the state to collect taxes on the sale of goods to non-Indians....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut will lay off 30 employees and transfer 225 more as part of a "right-sizing" of the tribal government operations, The New London Day reports....


The state of Wyoming is opposing the Northern Cheyenne Tribe's coalbed methane lawsuit....


In 1685, the historic Delaware (Lenape) tribe lost 1,200 square miles of land in what is now Pennsylvania....


A Navajo Nation council panel delayed hearings into charges of nepotism among the tribe's top leaders....


The state of New Mexico has asked a utility company to submit additional information about its plans to build a mine near a sacred lake....


A march will be held June 7 to protest the unsolved murders of Oglala Lakota men who were found dead near the town of Whiteclay, Nebraska....


A 17-month-old boy is expected to recover after being rescued from a submerged car in an accident at the Spirit Lake Nation in North Dakota....

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The head of the National Indian Gaming Commission on Wednesday laid out a broad agenda aimed at beefing up regulation of the $12 billion and growing tribal casino industry....

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Remember BITAM? Phil Hogen, chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, certainly does....


Members of the Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Tribe of Minnesota voted nearly 2 to 1 in favor of accepting a multi-million dollar deal with a nuclear utility that stores radioactive waste next to the reservation....


"Monetary compensation would be a salve, but hardly a cure....


A federal judge in Wisconsin heard arguments in a suit challenging the state's new tribal casino compacts....


The Bush administration is proposing to spend $300 billion on the reauthorization of the federal transportation bill....


The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute revised blood pressure guidelines, lowering the level of what is considered "normal" blood pressure....


The American Indian Families Project is a new partnership between the American Indian community and Hennepin County in Minnesota....


The Dine Family Institute held last Friday and Saturday at the TseBitAi Middle School in Shiprock, New Mexico....


The Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland has banned the use of Indians in school mascots, logos, team names and chants....


The Heart of the Earth Center for American Indian Education in Minneapolis disputed allegations that financial records were destroyed....


Summer classes at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas have returned with some cutbacks in order to save money....


An author says Connecticut's two federally-recognized "country club" tribes are excluding legitimate tribal members....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs, the FBI and the Oglala Sioux tribal police are investigating a shooting on the Pine Ridge Reservation that left a man in critical condition....


The Young Lawyers Section of the State Bar of South Dakota has received a $700 grant to start an Indian legal services project....


Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe (R) said Congress will spend $45 million to clean up the Tar Creek Superfund site....


The executive director of the Stillaguamish Tribe of Washington said the tribe was unaware that the backers of a tribal-casino related loan were recently indicted by a federal grand jury....


Business owners and civic leaders in Niagara Falls, New York, say they are already seeing the benefits of the new Seneca Nation casino....


Members of the Tohono O'odham Nation who live in Mexico filed suit in tribal court to delay the tribe's upcoming election....


The Alaska Federation of Natives organized a two-day conference on Native self-determination in Washington, D.C....


The Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut met with leaders of a town that opposes its federal recognition....


PBS is shooting the next installment of Tony Hillerman's Navajo cop series in New Mexico....


First Nations fishermen in New Brunswick, Canada, won't continue to boycott the crab fishery....


The Bush administration hasn't agreed to settle the St....


The leadership dispute within the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa hasn't yet forced the closure of the tribe's casino....


The state of South Dakota is seeking to stop members of the Yankton Sioux Tribe from protesting at a burial site along the Missouri River....


Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry (D) says talks with tribes over new compacts are ongoing....

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A key provision of Indian gaming law often goes unenforced, according to federal officials charged with oversight of the $12 billion and growing industry....

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The Bush administration is looking to the private sector for help in fixing the broken Indian trust, a top official said on Tuesday....


Members of New York tribes held a protest in the state capitol on Tuesday against a proposal to tax the sale of cigarettes, fuel and other goods....


Two Minnesota tribes hoping to land a casino in the Twin Cities area have pitched a teepee at the state capitol....


Donna Loring may not be a voting member of the Maine Legislature but as a member and representative of the Penobscot Nation, she is using her position to lobby in favor of a tribal casino....


Legislation was introduced in New Zealand to settle claims over the Treaty of Waitangi....


The Brazilian government is hoping to avoid a clash on a Indian reserve that has been invaded by 5,000 peasants....


The Cow Creek Umpqua Tribe of Oregon is suing a dead man in order to clear title to land slated for development....


The Minnesota House will take up a bill to allow additional radioactive waste storage at a nuclear plant near the Prairie Island Indian Community....


Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R) said he may not sign a controversial bill that delays cleanup of the Everglades....


A decision to allow the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut greater control of water resources has been temporarily rescinded, The New London Day reports....


The Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council of New Mexico was awarded a $200,000 economic development from the Department of Energy....


Oklahoma Congressman Brad Carson (D-Oklahoma) is seeking federal funds for a study of the Tar Creek Superfund site....


A federal judge in Wisconsin is scheduled to hold a hearing today on a challenge to new tribal casino compacts....


The Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill drafted to respond to the way Squaw Peak was changed to honor Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq....


Native Americans need to tell their own version of the Lewis and Clark expedition, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


A member of the Southern Ute tribal council has been accused of credit card misuse, The Durango Herald reports....


The Navy's Office of Naval Research will set up a new education center on the Tohono O'odham Reservation in Arizona....


Two boys were killed in a car accident on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota....


The Seminole Tribe of Florida announced results of its recent election but ousted chairman Jim Billie doesn't recognize the outcome because he wasn't allowed to run....


The attorney for Clifford Bird in Ground, ex-chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana, filed a motion in federal court to withdraw his guilty plea....


American Indian parents are protesting what they say is inaction over racially-tinged bullying at a middle school in Minneapolis, Minnesota....


The US Army Corps of Engineers halted work at a burial site on the Missouri River in South Dakota after Yankton Sioux tribal members effectively blocked construction....


Tribes need to abide by the rule of law if they want economic development on the reservation, The Madison Daily Leader says in an editorial....


The National Indian Gaming Commission on Tuesday ordered the Meskwaki Tribe to close its casino due to an ongoing leadership dispute....


Brittany Hess was 19 when she was told she had alveolar soft part sarcoma, a rare cancer....

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The head of Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources told an anti-Indian group last month that tribal hunting and fishing rights are based on a system of "apartheid." DNR commissioner Gene Merriam spoke at an April 27 fund-raiser for Proper Economic Resource Management (PERM), a group opposed to treaty rights and tribal sovereignty....

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Telephone service in Indian Country has improved over the past decade, according to a new study from the Federal Communications Commission....


Camp WATER is three-week camp in Alaska that blends Native knowledge, Western science and canoeing....


The state of Rhode Island has asked a federal judge to dismiss the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe's land claim....


Teaching Native languages in public schools is important for Natives and non-Natives, The Denver Post says in an editorial....


Four Oklahoma tribes and a local library system are seeking ways to improve their relationship....


Glenyce Fortin, a mother of six, graduated from Washington State University with a degree in civil engineering....


The Connecticut Supreme Court on Monday upheld state jurisdiction over the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation....


The Minnesota state Senate passed a bill 42-24 to allow continued storage of nuclear waste at a facility next to the Prairie Island Indian Community....


The St Croix Chippewa Tribe and the state of Wisconsin signed a tribal casino compact on Monday....


The North Carolina Indian Cultural Center is in danger of being closed due to lack of funds and other problems....


A federal court in Australia is hearing a Native title case....


Allegations of nepotism and other ethical lapses are the subject of public hearings being held by a Navajo Nation council committee this week....


Members of the Yankton Sioux Tribe have set up camp at a burial site along the Missouri River to protest work by the state of South Dakota....


Members of the Oneida Nation of New York who oppose the tribe's leadership are comparing their struggle to Jews under the reign of Hitler, The Syracuse Post Standard reports....


A member of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota will go to trial July 14 to face voter fraud charges, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports....


A New York man who said a Metis "spiritual leader" robbed him of a $250,000 pension fund and racked up $60,000 in credit card bills continues to attend Native ceremonies because they are so "so meaningful and powerful." Edwin Sause, a psychologist, invited the leader into his home....


"The Diné (pronounced dee-NAY) or "the People," as the Navajo call themselves, have many stories about their origins....


The St Regis Mohawk Tribe and the state of New York signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday to settle a long-standing land claim and resolve taxation and gaming issues....


Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) said statements by his commissioner for natural resources aren't reflective of state policy towards treaty rights....


The Department of Interior's inspector general is conducting an ethics inquiry of top officials....


The Seminole Tribe of Florida held a general election on Monday for chairman and council member positions....

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When it comes to defending the United States from threats, American Indians and Alaska Natives have never shied from military duty, serving at higher per capita rates than any other group in the country....

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Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.) was having a good day this past Wednesday....


Flo Kenney, an Inupiaq woman in Alaska, says the world is a "big pharmacy." Using herb, roots and plans, Kenney says there is a remedy for all sorts of ailments....


Commencement ceremonies were held on Friday for the 175 students who graduated from Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas....


Joe Medicine Crow, 90, the historian for the Crow Tribe of Montana, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern California....


The federal government has to settle the long-running Indian trust fund case, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says in an editorial today....


The Norwich Bulletin in an editorial today says a decision to allow the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation to control water resources should be investigated by the state....


Former boxer Joe "Smokin' Joe" Frazier has appealed a decision that prevents him from suing the Oneida Nation of New York....


The Alaska Native Heritage Center drew more than 2,000 people to its opening day on Sunday, thanks in part to a Mother's Day special....


Sinte Gleska University, the tribal college on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, plans to offer an accredited master's degree in human services, The Rapid City Journal reports....


The Denver Public School system is one of the few in the nation to offer a Lakota language class....


"This Mother's Day will be sad and regretful for me because my mother is in her own world - and the doctors say she will visit us less and less until the time comes when she stays in that world....


The Bush administration needs to back up First Lady Laura Bush's recent visit to the Navajo Nation with "swift action," The Farmington Daily Times says in an editorial today....


"Lynn Case sought a path to spiritual enlightenment that led her, unpredictably, into the bed of a self-proclaimed Lakota medicine man....


Before the advent of Indian gaming, life was rough on the Seminole Tribe's reservations in Florida....


The Supreme Court is set to decide whether sovereign immunity protects tribes from state criminal warrants and searches....


A federal judge in South Dakota heard oral arguments on Friday in the Rosebud Sioux Tribe's hog farm lawsuit....


Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services and former governor of Wisconsin, criticized Wisconsin's new tribal casino deals....


Members of New York's tribes will protest tomorrow against legislative proposals to tax Indian businesses....


The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will hold an oversight hearing on the National Indian Gaming Commission this Wednesday....


The federal government has a habit of handing crumbling buildings, contaminated land and other problems to tribes....


"Did Jesus ever visit the Americas? Nobody really knows for sure....


The St Regis Mohawk Tribe and the state of New York plan to sign a $100 million land and casino settlement this week, The New York Times reported....

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