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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 Winners Judge Lamberth - Will you please hold the House Appropriations committee and the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in contempt? They deserve it. Upsizing - We thought President Bush wanted to reduce the size of the federal workforce....

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Tribal leaders and representatives urged a Senate committee on Thursday not to leave Indian Country behind when it comes to telecommunications. With rates of telephone service trailing the rest of the population and Internet access far below the national average, witnesses called for additional funding, changes in federal law and full recognition of tribal sovereignty....


Tohono O'odham Nation chairman Edward Manuel could face a run for his money in Saturday's election. Manuel and vice-chairman Henry A....


Some members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation are disputing the tribe's casino expansion projects....


The new $72 million casino owned by the Tulalip Tribes of Washington is ready to open....


The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve three of President Bush's nominees, including a Department of Justice lawyer who has been sanctioned for his handling of the Indian trust fund case....


An investigation into allegations of nepotism and other ethical lapses at the top levels of the Navajo Nation appears to have lost steam. President Joe Shirley Jr....


The incumbent Cherokee Nation chief faces his old rival in tomorrow's tribal election. Chief Chad Smith defeated Robert Byrd four years ago....


Sealaska, an Alaska Native regional corporation, saw a $40 million profit in 2002. The profit was realized through a telecommunications investment and an Indian gaming investment....


The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island delayed the opening of its smoke shop to discuss issues over state taxation. The state contends the tribe must charge state tax....


The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is using state and federal money to study the feasibility of building a beef-processing plant. The tribe obtained a $180,000 loan from the state and a grant of equal funds from the Department of Agriculture....


The Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival opens in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, today. The three-day fest features a pow-wow and an arts show....


The Minnesota House approved a bill to allow the storage of additional nuclear waste at a facility next to the Prairie Island Indian Community. The tribe came to a settlement with the operators of the plant....


The Bush administration is not taking money from Indian programs and using it to fund trust reform initiatives, a Department of Interior official said on Thursday. Appearing on the radio program Native America Calling, special trustee Ross Swimmer said Congressional testimony provided by Tex Hall, president of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) "was not true at all." "None of that testimony was true," Swimmer told host Harlan McKosato....


Home > News > Headlines Printer friendly version Mashantucket Tribe did not sue local towns FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2003 The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation did not sue three towns and the state of Connecticut over a land-into-trust request. In 1995, state attorney general Richard Blumenthal and the towns sued the Department of Interior for approving the tribe's application....


Washington attorney general Christine Gregoire filed a complaint against two utility companies for passing along a tribal fee to reservation customers. The Yakama Nation imposed a 3 percent franchise fee on utility companies that do businesses within reservation boundaries....


More than 100 tribal, state, local and federal officials met in Arizona on Thursday to discuss jurisdiction issues in Coconino County. The county is home to five tribes, including the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe....


Oregon's nine federally-recognized tribes came to the State Legislature on Thursday to observe Tribal Information Day. Tribal leaders and Gov....


Representatives of the United States and Mexico met on Thursday to discuss the historic El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. The 1,800-mile trail links San Juan Pueblo in northern New Mexico to Mexico City....


Due to the Memorial Day holiday, Indianz.Com will not provide a regular update on Monday....


This year will be the final year for the April Dawn Stamper Memorial Women's Open Tournament on the Rocky Boy's Reservation in Montana. The tourney was started four years ago by friends of April Dawn Stamper, who excelled in athletics and academics....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut will challenge a state jury verdict of $6.8 million to three former employees, The Hartford Courant reports. The jury said the tribe's hotel company must pay the money to the employees, who contend they were wrongfully terminated from their jobs....


Robert Redbird, native Oklahoman and renowned Kiowa artist, will be honored on Saturday, June 7, according to a proclamation by Governor Henry....


Federal marshals shut down the Meskwaki Tribe's casino in Iowa this morning. A federal judge ordered the casino closed until the National Indian Gaming Commission decides it can be reopened....


The military has completed a report into the events surrounding Lori Piestewa's death in Iraq, The Arizona Republic reports. Piestewa, a member of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, was killed March 23 when her Army unit was ambushed in southern Iraq....


A proposed nuclear waste site on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah is safe from earthquakes, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board ruled on Thursday. Eight private utility companies have signed a lease with the tribe to store highly radioactive waste....

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Tribal leaders on Wednesday criticized the Bush administration's plans to "grow, not shrink" a Department of Interior office headed by Ross Swimmer, the presidential appointee in charge of overseeing trust reform....

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The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust fund sent a strong message to Congress and the Bush administration on Wednesday, warning against efforts to "undermine" the landmark case....


The Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona will build a $10 million outpatient clinic with tribal gaming revenues....


Congress should act to enforce state and local authority over Indian Country, The Sacramento Bee says in an editorial....


In a commencement speech at the US Coast Guard Academy, President Bush on Wednesday blamed continued hunger in Africa on Europe's ban on genetically modified crops....


With Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman resigning at the end of June, some names are surfacing as her replacement....


The House voted Wednesday to exempt the Department of Defense from two major environmental laws while the Senate approved a more restricted version....


A bill that elevates Indian affairs in the state of South Carolina is advancing in the State Legislature....


A Navajo man convicted of two murders would become the first American Indian on federal death row since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1994, The Gallup Independent reports....


A diabetes prevention center in Gallup, New Mexico, has been shut down, former Navajo Nation Vice President Dr....


The Lakota Fund has received an economic development grant from Hewlett-Packard....


After 23 years of service at the Native American Education Department of an Arizona school district, Anna Chana is retiring this summer....


A delegation of representatives from Ecuador's tribes is in the United States to talk about the effects of drilling in the Amazon....


Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry (D) will declare May 22 "Jim Thorpe Day." Thorpe, a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, is considered one of the greatest athletes in American history....


A New Zealand tribal leader called the federal government a "resource thief" for refusing to consider compensating Maori tribes for oil and gas royalties a treaty commission said they were wrongly denied....


Members of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona will go to the polls on Saturday to choose a chairman and vice-chairman....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs only has one employee handling property transactions for the entire United States, according to the employee charged with the task....


Members of the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa are being asked to go to the polls to choose a new slate of leaders....


A state jury in Connecticut ordered the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation's hotel company to pay $6.8 million to three former employees....


The following is the statement of Tom Daschle at the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Hearing on the Reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of the Special Trustee....


"Earlier this month, the governor of Minnesota tried to make up for thoughtless comments from his natural resources commissioner about tribal hunting and fishing traditions....


A Minnesota county voted to appeal a suit that contends the Mille Lacs Ojibwe Reservation has been diminished by 61,000 acres....


US District Judge Royce Lamberth on Wednesday denied the Bush administration's attempt to limit reimbursement to two court investigators who have been critical of the Department of Interior's trust reform efforts....


Four South Dakota tribes have received $17.4 million in housing grants to improve housing on their reservations....


The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today passed US Senator Pete Domenici’s bill to transfer the control of nearly 4,500 acres of remote surplus federal property to the San Ildefonso and Santa Clara pueblos in northern New Mexico....


Thelma Stiffarm, a member of the Gros Ventre Tribe of Montana, was recently appointed assistant administrator of the U.S....

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Indian Country has "nothing to fear" as the Bush administration moves forward with a reorganization plan at the Department of Interior, a top official said on Tuesday....

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There's a new enemy in Indian Country and it's not termination....


The San Juan Capistrano, California, city council voted 4-1 to approved a Catholic school development on a 29-acre Juaneno burial ground....


Casino mogul Donald Trump still plans to sue the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation for dumping him as a potential casino partner....


The Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico will open a new gaming center tomorrow....


The Yavapai-Prescott Tribe of Arizona signed a gaming compact with the state of Arizona on Tuesday....


Three former employees of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut are suing the tribe after being fired from well-paying jobs with expensive perks....


California's tribal casinos took in an estimated $3.4 billion in revenues last year, according to a report by the Analysis Group, a consulting firm....


Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R) signed a bill into law that critics say guts the $8 billion cleanup of the Everglades....


Allegations of nepotism and other ethical lapses in the Navajo Nation presidency were referred to the tribe's ethics office, The Gallup Independent reported....


Two tribes in northern New Mexico have reached a water sharing agreement with the city of Española....


A police officer for the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota was hospitalized after being stabbed during earlier this week....


Two Montana tribes are cooperating to expand law enforcement....


The Stillaguamish Tribe of Washington is moving forward with plans to a first methadone clinic to treat heroin addicts....


Attorneys for the state of Wisconsin are urging a federal judge to retain jurisdiction in an Indian gaming lawsuit....


Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, will be featured in an exhibit opening Memorial Day at the Arlington Memorial....


Lezmond Mitchell, a resident of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, was sentenced to death for killing a grandmother and granddaughter who were on their way to see a medicine man....


An accurate historical accounting of the Indian trust is impossible due to lost records, a Department of Treasury official said last week....


President Bush promoted his "Healthy Forest Initiative" with the help of several Bureau of Indian Affairs firefighters....


Jodi Rave Lee of The Lincoln Journal Star has been named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University....


The appointed council of the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa will hold a special election tomorrow but the elected council says it won't recognize the results....


Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Todd Whitman announced her resignation today....


Congress needs to pass a bill designed to protect Native languages, The Great Falls Tribune says in an editorial....


The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided three tobacco shops licensed by the Puyallup Tribe of Washington, The Seattle Times reports....


Oklahoma tribal leaders are still trying to work out an agreement over tobacco taxes....


Maori tribes were wrongly denied oil and gas royalties from a national petroleum reserve, a report from a New Zealand treaty commission has concluded....


Bureau of Indian Affairs agents launched an investigation into business dealings of the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut "months ago" before handing the probe to a federal prosecutor, The Boston Globe reports....


President Bush last week signed into law a bill that distributes a $7 million trust fund to the Gila River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of Arizona....

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Justice Scalia didn't write the opinion....

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Tribal governments can't use federal civil rights law to shield themselves from state criminal investigations, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Monday....


The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts recently helped dedicate a replica of a fishweir, a traditional fishing trap, on the Boston Common....


A Tohono O'odham Nation judge dismissed an attempt by Mexican tribal members to delay the tribe's upcoming election for chairman....


"Dragonflies have a special significance to Native people....


The US Fish and Wildlife Service is moving forward with plans to have the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes manage the National Bison Range in Montana....


A New Mexico man was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for setting a fire on the Mescalero Apache Reservation....


A bill to expand the storage of waste at a nuclear plan near the Prairie Island Indian Community was blocked by Democrats in the Minnesota Senate on Monday....


The tribal college on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota is offering a new program in vocational rehabilitation counseling....


A member of the Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado agreed not to contact a council member who felt threatened by his presence....


Rural water projects are helping Montana's tribes and rural residents, even if the White House doesn't think so....


Joseph Medicine Crow, the historian for the Crow Tribe of Montana, finally received his doctorate degree in University of Southern California....


No one doubts that two Delaware tribes in Oklahoma have strong ties to Pennsylvania....


Cockfighting enthusiasts are hoping they can keep the tradition alive by hosting events in Indian Country....


The US Attorney's office in Connecticut has subpoenaed the former chairman of the Mohegan Tribe in connection with the $1 billion expansion of the tribe's casino, according to news reports....


A New York Supreme Court justice put on hold the state's tribal casino compacts until legal issues can be resolved....


The National Indian Gaming Commission on Monday asked a federal court to close the Meskwaki Tribe's casino....


A tribal fishing village in Oregon is due for a makeover by the U.S....


An attorney for the California tribe at the center of a Supreme Court case says the court's ruling is not anti-tribal government....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs has launched an investigation into the prescribed burn in which a Rick Lupe, White Mountain Apache firefighter, was seriously burned, the tribe announced on Monday....


Department of Interior officials this week will talk about ongoing reorganization efforts at the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Special Trustee....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton will take questions online tonight as part of the "Ask the White House" chat feature of the White House website....


Political season for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has some steamed over a recent mailing....

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The head of the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) warned Oklahoma tribes in a strongly worded letter last week that he will shut down their casinos if they continue to violate the law....

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The Bush administration doesn't want to be seen as a cheerleader when it comes to Indian gaming....

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Indian Country avoided a number of showdowns over tribal sovereignty and tribal rights last year....


"Virginia's eastern Indians were labeled either White or Black by segregationist government bureaucrats in the Jim Crow 1920s....


The Oklahoma Legislature is set to take up a bill that would authorize tribal gaming compacts....


The Seven Fires Foundation, a non-profit organization, has organized the 1,700-mile Spirit Walk to preserve Lakota language and culture....


Blackfeet language educators from the Blackfeet Nation of Montana testified in support of a Native language bill....


A memorial to the Indian warriors who fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn will be dedicated June 25, the 127th anniversary of the historic battle....


About 120 black-footed ferrets have been released on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota as part of a tribal-federal partnership....


Two men in Montana say they have narrowed down the location where Sacajawea, the Shoshone woman who was a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, was captured by a rival tribe....


The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of South Dakota will study agricultural development options with the support of the state....


The Midlands Intertribal Empowerment Group held its eight annual pow-wow in Columbia, South Carolina, this weekend....


Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby will run for re-election of the Oklahoma tribe....


The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina will hold a primary election June 4....


The Red Earth Festival is being held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, this week....


Confronted with rising numbers of babies born addicted to drugs, youth suicide and sexual assaults, the Lummi Tribe of Washington is taking a get-tough approach to drug problems on the reservation....


A $13 million pipeline being constructed on the Blackfeet Reservation will serve tribal and rural residents....


"The man across the table in a dark downtown New London restaurant was wearing a wool ski hat, pulled tight over his forehead and ears....


Edison Chiloquin, a member of the Klamath Tribe of Oregon who fought termination, died recently, the Associated Press reports....


With less than 200 members remaining, Joe Scovell is in a race to prevent The Clatsop-Nehalem Tribe from fading into obscurity....


The elected council of the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa doesn't plan on putting any tribal funds in a receivership, a spokesman said....


Rick Lupe, a longtime firefighter on the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona, is in critical condition after suffering third-degree burns over 40 percent of his body, The Arizona Republic reports....


The Alaska Supreme Court in a unanimous decision struck down an Alaska Native hiring preference law....


The head of the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association says he isn't worried about a crackdown on illegal Class III games....


A federal judge in South Dakota held a hearing to address a burial site along the Missouri River....


The Supreme Court ruled today that the Bishop Paiute Tribe of California cannot sue county officials for seizing tribal casino records....


Wisconsin tribes contribute more than $30,000 to the Wisconsin Council on Problem Gambling....


"Hey, it’s me again, coming to you live from somewhere beyond the grave....


"Gene Merriam, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, suddenly has become the strong, silent type....

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