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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 lake in New Mexico held as sacred by several tribes and an area in Georgia known as the cradle of Muscogee civilization were named two of the nation's most endangered places on Thursday....

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Meeting without the Bush administration on Thursday, tribal leaders stressed the need to stay united as they move forward with initiatives to reform the broken Indian trust....


The Department of Justice submitted a legal brief arguing against the use of US courts to hear human rights suits against foreign dictators and international companies, The Washington Post reports....


Michael Gallegos has been named to the New Mexico Gaming Control Board to work with tribal casinos....


A reported clash between two tribes in Ecuador has left as many as 30 dead, according to news accounts....


The White House Office of Management and Budget announced a policy aimed at speeding up outsourcing of federal jobs....


A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that Marlboro cigarettes have higher levels of a cancer-causing substance than almost every cigarette brand in the world....


The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board declined to approve a scaled-back proposal to store nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah....


Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) signed into law a bill that allows the storage of additional nuclear waste at a facility next to the Prairie Island Indian Community....


The bodies of at least eight Mexican migrants have been found in the past week on the Tohono O'odham Reservation....


The chairman of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of California is accusing a hotel and restaurant union of a campaign of disinformation....


The University of Montana-Missoula and the Montana Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission hosted the Confluence of Cultures conference this week....


A painting by Navajo artist David John has been selected as this year's Santa Fe Indian Market poster....


A three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday turned down a request to reopen the Meskwaki Tribe's casino in Iowa....


The Douglas Indian Association of Alaska has finally elected a tribal council....


"After much reflection on my past visit to Devils Lake and Grand Forks in search of justice for my son, Russell Turcotte, I feel that I must respond to a remark that Jeff White, chief agent with the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation, made during his interview with the Herald....


The chief of the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island criticized a bill that would set up checkpoints around the tribe's reservation in order to make customers pay state cigarette tax....


The Oklahoma Senate voted 25-19 to approve a bill that legalizes certain electronic casino games in the state....


A federal judge in Idaho set a Tuesday deadline for a settlement to Nez Perce water rights case, The Idaho Statesman reports....


Where's Neal McCaleb when you don't need him? Tribes in his home state of Oklahoma are wondering when the Bureau of Indian Affairs will release federal road money....


South Dakota attorney general Larry Long asked the state Supreme Court on Thursday to limit refunds owed to tribal members for an illegally paid gas tax....


A California tribe donated $100,000 to the Republican Party in order to lobby Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on land-into-trust regulations that she rescinded....


A federal judge in Wisconsin returned a suit over the state's gaming compacts to state court....


The PBS show "Now With Bill Moyers" is airing an program on Deputy Interior Secretary J....


Grace Gleuck of The New York Times reviews "Legends of Our Times: Native Ranching and Rodeo Life on the Plains and the Plateau," an exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City....

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Attorneys representing 500,000 American Indian beneficiaries are asking two Senate leaders to delay legislation seeking to resolve the long-running Cobell trust fund lawsuit....

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The Supreme Court is meeting today to consider accepting a case involving tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians....


Kelly Stoner has been named director of Oklahoma City University's Native American Legal Resource Center....


The Department of Interior is blaming environmentalists for breaking the Endangered Species Act program....


An economic development study on the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation will help the tribe and the state of South Dakota, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


The Department of Transportation won't help the state of South Dakota preserve an Indian site that is three to five hundred years old....


George Dupuis, a Fond du Lac Ojibwe business committee member, resigned last week after an investigation uncovered he was billing the band for expenses that were also being picked up by Minnesota Ojibwe Tribe....


A Colombian rebel indicted for the murders of three Native activists is being extradited to the United States....


The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is urging its adjudicatory board to resolve final licensing issues for a proposed nuclear waste dump on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah....


Families are moving into a $5.2 million housing complex on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico....


Kenneth Reels, former chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut, suggest his tribe would seek an off-reservation casino if the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation were to do so....


Casino mogul Donald Trump says he spent $10.1 million to help the Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut gain federal recognition....


Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski signed into law a bill that creates separate Medicaid standards for Native Americans....


New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi won't stop Governor George Pataki (R) from finalizing new casino deals, Casino opponents will have a chance to appeal the decision....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs says the Micmac Tribe of Maine can sell tax-free cigarettes on tribal land, the Associated Press reports....


Oklahoma's horse track operators are backing a bill that will allow them to offer the same electronic games as tribal casinos....


Phil Hogen, chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, spoke at the 2003 Sovereignty Symposium in Oklahoma City on Wednesday....


Marvin Beartusk, 51, a former Bureau of Indian Affairs employee, was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for receiving obscene materials....


The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is holding a meeting today to focus on trust reform and the ongoing reorganization of the Department of Interior....


The Pentagon will bury the remains of a Hopi / Laguna Pueblo serviceman June 18 at Arlington National Cemetery....


The Morongo Band of Mission Indians broke ground on a $250 million casino-resort destined to be the second-largest tribal gaming facility in California....


Navajo / Pueblo golfer Notah Begay III is ready to get back to winning after battling two years of injuries and depression....

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The Office of Special Trustee (OST) is getting bigger....

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The head of the nation's largest inter-tribal organization is defending recent Congressional testimony that criticized the Bush administration for taking money from Indian programs to pay for trust reform....


Wisconsin Republicans asked a federal judge on Tuesday to return their Indian gaming lawsuit to state court....


Casino mogul Donald Trump will file a lawsuit today against the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut....


The Forest County Potawatomi Tribe of Wisconsin is being asked to consider relocating a casino to Milwaukee....


The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision on Tuesday said employees can recover money damages against states that breach the Family and Medical Leave Act....


Churches and houses of worship can now receive historic preservation grants from the Department of Interior....


The Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico is expanding its fire department....


Tribes on the Lewis and Clark trail are eager to show their side of the expedition to the West....


Navajo Nation vice President Frank Dayish Jr....


Jake Viarrial, governor of Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico, expects to return to work full-time in about a month after recovering from first- and second-degree burns on 6 percent of his body....


A federal judge sentenced Gary Lee Wipf, 34, to 40 years in prison and five years supervised release for abusing a minor on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota....


The Boeuf River Band of Cherokees is seeking recognition from the state of Louisiana....


Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr....


Goldbelt Inc., an Alaska Native corporation, is selling its regional cruise ship subsidiary after seeing a $4.4 million loss of $18 million....


The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board made three rulings on Tuesday in favor of a proposed nuclear waste dump on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah....


The Gila River Indian Community of Arizona is taking steps to develop its casino resort outside of Phoenix....


Valentino "Tino" White Sr....


Cherokee Nation voters approved an amendment to the tribal constitution that eliminates the need for Bureau of Indian Affairs approval....


Navajo and Native American donors are being sought for a young boy who is suffering from a rare blood disease....


Merle Wayne Boyd, assistant chief of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma, died on Monday, The Native American Times reports....


A Rhode Island lawmaker is introducing a bill aimed at thwarting the Narragansett Tribe from offering tax-free tobacco goods....


A federal judge in South Daokta heard testimony in an ongoing dispute over a burial site along the Missouri River....


The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals is being asked to expedite review of shutdown of the Meskwaki Tribe's casino in Iowa....


The state of Wisconsin and the Ho-Chunk Nation still can't resolve a land swap involving a former ammunition plant....

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Whether states can force tribal governments to accept criminal warrants was left open by the Supreme Court this week....

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If you ask the Windy Boys, of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Montana, talks over trust reform were doomed from the start....


The Blue Quills First Nation College on the Saddle Lake Reserve in Alberta, Canada, is leading an effort to repatriate a sacred meteorite....


"When North Dakota's state tourism knocks on the door of closed communities such as the Indian reservations, the tribes tend to stand with their heels dug into the ground and their hands firmly around the doorknob, keeping the door tightly shut....


"The two funniest tribes I've ever been around are Indians and Jews," Sherman Alexie writes in "Ten Little Indians," his new collection of short stories, "so I guess that says something about the inherent humor of genocide." According to Janet Maslin of The New York Times, the "warm, revealing, invitingly roundabout stories" feature a broad range of Indian characters who "come in all shapes and sizes, sharing only their wry perspective on Indian life off the reservation." Most of the stories are set in Seattle, Washington, which Alexie calls home these days....


A judge in Washington is being reviewed by a state panel on charges he treated Native American and Hispanic defendants differently in his courtroom....


Some tribal leaders are wary of a request to put the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust into receivership, worried that it could lead to an erosion of their sovereignty....


Members of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota held a protest on Friday, calling for an investigation into a police officer they accused of brutality and racism....


Chad Smith was re-elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the second-largest tribe in the United States....


Members of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona chose their first woman chair in a resounding vote on Saturday....


The Little Shell Chippewa Tribe of Montana received preliminary recognition three years ago and is still waiting for a final answer on its federal status....


The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general has issued a report on the computer computer system used to track and control water pollution....


A Northern Cheyenne woman was shot and killed by a man who turned the rifle on himself in an apparent murder-suicide....


Efforts to keep Native American languages alive are hindered by limited funds, according to educators....


Oklahoma's tribal leaders aren't ready to endorse new tobacco and gaming compacts but talks with state politicians continue....


A railroad car leaking volatile chemical fumes forced the evacuation of about 40 to 60 residents of Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico....


"To rebate or not to rebate: That is the question of the day when you walk into electronics shops, department stores, car dealerships and just about anywhere else....


The Confederated Grand Ronde Tribes have built a monument to honor Indian and non-Indian veterans....


Sharon Clahchischilliage has been named executive director of the The Navajo Nation's Washington, D.C., office by President Joe Shirley Jr....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs won't recognize the results of the Meskwaki Tribe's recent election....


A military official said Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, fought her Iraqi attackers "with courage and honor," The Arizona Republic reports....


A federal judge whom President Bush has nominated to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals pressured government attorneys to reduce a sentence for a man convicted of cross-burning, The Washington Post reports....


"With the Supreme Court’s decision in Navajo Nation v....

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