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Authority of NIGC placed in doubt
A decision by a Department of Interior judicial official would severely
limit the ability of federal regulators to police the $10 billion and growing
Indian gaming industry....
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Court monitor attacked for trust fund report
The Department of Justice has asked a federal court official to rescind a
critical report which could lead to charges of criminal misconduct against
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton....
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In The Hoop: Winners, Losers
Colorado River Indian Tribes - You finally exposed the limitations of the
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act....
N.M. bones date to 1800s
New Mexico officials have dated four sets of remains uncovered near a
dam to the 1800s....
Wyandotte land claim still alive
A federal judge this week refused to dismiss a land claim lawsuit filed by
the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma....
School director challenges dismissal
Karen Dixon-Blazer says she was wrongly fired from her job as executive
director of Navajo Preparatory School in New Mexico....
Pueblo author to receive honorary doctorate
Acoma Pueblo author Simon Ortiz will received one of two honorary
doctorates this year from the University of New Mexico....
IAIA students graduating
The 21 students graduating from the Institute of American Indian Arts in
New Mexico will receive a comedic send-off....
Mass. panel to study gaming
The Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts, like others in New
England, will have to wait before its casino dreams are realized....
Ariz. tribes drafting initiative
Tribes in Arizona are drafting a ballot initiative to support Indian gaming....
Tribe fights chemical plant
The Ponca Nation of Oklahoma has joined forces with a labor union to
protest a chemical plant....
Letter: Unfair Indian casinos
"We in the non-Native American gaming industry face a regulatory
system that is more stringent, which results in an unfair, anticompetitive
marketplace....
Idaho gaming initiative certified
The Idaho Secretary of State has certified a Class III gaming initiative
sponsored by two tribes....
Judge halts mountaintop waste dumping
The Bush administration is moving to stop a federal judge's ruling from
impacting the mining industry....
Clinton appointee ordered off civil rights panel
A federal appeals court unanimously ruled on Thursday that a Clinton
appointee to the U.S....
Parties battle over federal judges
President Bush and Republicans attacked Democrats on Thursday for not
confirming appointees to the federal bench fast enough....
Regulatory boss wields great power
John Graham is the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs and a White House official with great influence....
Mohican Tribe reclaiming homeland
The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans currently live in Wisconsin but
the tribe's roots are in New York....
For CRIT, a heavy hand
The Colorado River Indian Tribes are at the heart of a debate over more
or less regulation of Indian gaming, The Arizona Republic says today....
Attack on court monitor decried
An attorney representing 300,000 American Indian trust fund
beneficiaries is decrying the Department of Justice's criticism of a court
official....
Puyallup members getting payout
Members of the Puyallup Tribe of Washington will receive $2,000 a month
in casino revenues....
Seminole dispute continues
Two rival factions of the Seminole Nation are asserting power over the
Oklahoma tribe....
Navajo fire out of control
Fire crews on Thursday continued to battle a 750-acre blaze in the
Chuska Mountains of New Mexico....
Minn. school cancels pow-wow
The University of St Thomas in Minnesota on Thursday announced it was
canceling its annual pow-wow because of a court challenge....
Shoshone runners complete sacred run
Fifteen members of the Western Shoshone Nation are wrapping up their
240-mile Run on Sacred Lands in Nevada today....
Pueblo opposing option for lake
Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico is opposing a proposal by the Department
of Interior to drain a man-made lake in order to protect an endangered
fish....
Activists drink beer for Natives
Drinking in public can't get you arrested in Nebraska even though it is a
violation of liquor laws....
Griles backs out on future drilling
Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles won't deal with future coalbed
methane studies in the Powder River Basin....
Indicted Ute leader watched for years
Federal authorities investigated Ute Mountain Ute chairwoman Judy
Knight-Frank for years before the Colorado leader was indicted this
week....
Haskell situation said dire
Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas is in dire financial straits, The
Lawrence Journal-World reports today....
DOI official says public doesn't get it
The Senate rejected drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because
the public doesn't understand what's at stake, according to a
Department of Interior official....
Village safety trial wraps up
Closing arguments in a trial addressing law enforcement services
provided to Alaska Native villages were heard on Thursday....
Blackfeet Tribe renews police pact
The Blackfeet Nation of Montana has renewed a cross-jurisdictional
agreement with the state....
Navajo Nation still objects to the Devil
The Navajo Nation is awaiting a response from a Utah school board
regarding the Devil, a tribal spokesperson told The Salt Lake Tribune....
Indian student testing rates flat
American Indian 10th graders in Minnesota scored no better on a
statewide writing test when compared to last year, according to results
released on Thursday....
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Tribes oppose treaty termination bill
A bill to extinguish all treaty rights in the state of Illinois drew opposition
from tribal leaders and Democrats at a Congressional hearing on
Wednesday....
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Yucca Mountain gains House approval
The House on Wednesday
overwhelmingly approved a plan to store
up to 77,000 tons of highly radioactive
nuclear waste on traditional Shoshone
land in Nevada....
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Blackwell memo contradicts court order
The same day a federal judge renewed an order barring the Department
of Interior from moving trust fund records, Deputy Commissioner Sharon
Blackwell told Bureau of Indian Affairs offices they could freely transfer
documents belonging to 300,000 American Indians....
Bush changing same-sex school policy
The Bush administration is opening public debate on a proposal to
encourage same-sex public schools....
Proposal paves way for monument drilling
The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to allow a drilling company
to explore for oil in a national monument in Colorado....
Narragansett Tribe to observe work
The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island will observe work at a site in
Connecticut to ensure any uncovered artifacts are protected....
Indian events scheduled at park
Yellowstone National Park will play host to Indian events over the
weekend....
Pueblo plans questioned
Plans by Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico to construct a large hotel are
being questioned....
Mashantucket Pequot casino robbed
Police in Connecticut have in custody a man accused of stealing more
than $250,000 in casino chips from the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal
Nation....
'Attack' on state tribes stalled
A bill that one tribal leader said was an attack on state-recognized tribes
in Connecticut failed to pass the Legislature this session due to lack of
commitment....
Bison protesters plead guilty
Three of four women arrested while protesting bison policies of the state
of Montana have pleaded guilty....
Haskell Students of the Year
Erika Washee Stanley and Carlene Nofire-Morris are Students of the Year
at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas....
FBI faulted for lack of response
The FBI came under fire on Wednesday for not following up on
information Democratic Senators said might have prevented the
September 11 terrorist attacks....
Haney opponents still locked in
The Seminole Nation tribal office in Oklahoma is still being held by Ken
Chambers and his supporters....
Editorial: Indian voters at the table
In an editorial today, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader calls for South Dakota
and the rest of the nation to include Native American voters....
Vote delayed on Native casino waiver
The Nevada Gaming Control Board is delaying a vote to allow
shareholders of an Alaska Native corporation to take in profits from a
casino....
Tribes gather for fishery meeting
The Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission held its annual meeting in
Washington on Wednesday....
Native victory impacts industry
The British Columbia Court of Appeal in February ruled that the Haida
First Nation must be consulted prior to decisions affecting timber on
Queen Charlotte Islands....
Probation in IHS drug fraud case
A Montana woman was given three years probation on Wednesday for
her part in a prescription drug scheme at an Indian Health Service
hospital on the Crow Reservation....
The Devil is here to stay
A nemesis of Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye was endorsed on
Wednesday....
Sho-Ban chairman denies charges
Shoshone-Bannock Nation Chairman Blaine Edmo defended himself on
Wednesday from accusations by an Idaho county Sheriff....
Yucca won't take all waste
There just might be enough highly radioactive nuclear waste in the
country to make President Bush and the Skull Valley Goshute Tribe of
Utah happy....
Wyandotte trust land notice clarified
The Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma hasn't been approved to conduct
gaming on certain trust lands, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb clarified
in a Federal Register notice published on Wednesday....
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In The Hoop: Loopholes
The slot machines may have been carted away but the Wyandotte Nation
hasn't given up plans to open up a casino in Kansas....
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BIA adding names to police memorial
The Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Law Enforcement Services will add
three names to its police officer's memorial at a ceremony in New Mexico
tomorrow....
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Court decision rocks Seminole Nation
The current leadership of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma was kicked
out of office on Tuesday by a court decision restoring ousted Principal
Chief Jerry Haney to power....
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DOI law enforcement reorganization pushed
A Republican lawmaker who has been critical of law enforcement failures
at the FBI on Tuesday urged Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to correct
gaffes within her department's sprawling police force....
Editorial: No let up on Navajo killer
In an editorial today, The Farmington Daily-Times says New Mexico
authorities should continue prosecuting a man convicted of murdering a
Navajo woman for other crimes, including the death of a Navajo man....
Army secretary is doing a good job
The White House and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday
defended Army head Thomas E....
Enron generates another scandal
Enron the Sequel took a hold of Congress, the White House and California
on Tuesday as lawmakers, President Bush and politicians reacted to
apparent market-gouging by the bankrupt company....
Eating at Mohegan Sun
Regina Schrambling of The New York Times eats at the Mohegan Sun
Casino in Connecticut and loves it, according to her review of the
establishment's new eateries....
Bush brief expands gun rights
The Department of Justice submitted two legal briefs to the Supreme
Court asserting the rights of U.S....
Woman charged with child abuse
A member of Jicarilla Apache Nation of New Mexico is charged with two
counts of child abuse for allegedly leaving her 5-year-old-son alone in
the middle of a busy interstate....
Breast feeding linked to intelligence
Research published in today's issue of the Journal of the American
Medical Association reports that breast feeding is tied to high IQs in
adults....
House voting on Yucca Mountain
The House is voting today on President
Bush's recommendation to store up to
77,000 tons of highly radioactive nuclear
waste on traditional Shoshone land in
Nevada....
Babbitt fights for housing development
Former Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt is sounding like his successor
these days as he pushes for a controversial 3,000-acre home
development in southern California....
Salmon habitats revoked by U.S.
A federal judge has approved an agreement between the federal
government and a homebuilders association that dissolves critical
habitats for 19 species of salmon....
Haney opponents locked in
Supporters of Ken Chambers and his administration locked themselves in
Seminole Nation headquarters in Oklahoma on Tuesday in response to a
court decision putting ousted Chief Jerry Haney in control of the tribe....
Candidate tells tribal members he opposes them
Members of the Eastern Pequot Tribe were told by a political candidate
seeking their vote on Tuesday that he opposes their bid for federal
recognition....
BIA fighting Navajo fire
Bureau of Indian Affairs firefighters and a county crew are battling a
70-acre fire in New Mexico just miles from a Navajo Nation school....
Navajo prep school director fired
The school board of Navajo Preparatory in New Mexico fired executive
director Karen Dixon-Blazer on Tuesday....
Navajo Nation opposes mascot
Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye is calling on a school in Utah to
get rid of its mascot, saying the name "Red Devils" is offensive to Native
Americans....
Norton moving on law enforcement
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton has established a task force to review
her department's law enforcement and recommend changes....
Okla. adding names to memorial
A Native ceremony will be held on Friday when the state of Oklahoma
adds the names of fallen officers to its Law Enforcement Memorial....
Colo. Ute chief indicted
Judith Knight-Frank, chief of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of Colorado, has
been indicted on 11 federal felony charges....
Burial site uncovered in N.M.
Officials in New Mexico are treating the discovery of four sets of human
remains as an ancient burial site....
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In The Hoop: Wicked Ideas
A Department of Interior employee appeared in federal court in Montana
on Monday to plead not guilty to defrauding the Bureau of Reclamation,
The Billings Gazette reported today....
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Congress takes up land claim bill
One tribe's legal tactics will be the subject of debate tomorrow when a
Congressional committee debates a bill to extinguish all tribal claims in
the state of Illinois....
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Top officials facing court investigations
Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb and several top Department of Interior
officials are being ordered to testify under oath as part of widening court
investigations into trust reform....
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Deadline nears for trust fund accounting plan
Only one bank responded to a recent Department of Interior solicitation
for assistance on its historical accounting project, a sign of an effort that
the government's top trust reform official said still lacks "clarity."
In its latest status update on the progress of reform, the department
informs the federal court overseeing the Indian trust that Bank of
America has been chosen to help the Office of Historical Trust
Accounting....
Seats open on Maine casino task force
There 18 seats to fill on a task force created to study casino gaming in
the state of Maine....
Haskell students ready to graduate
Traditional performances, a pow-wow and the crowning of Miss Haskell
2002 are all part of this weekend's commencement activities at Haskell
Indian Nations University in Kansas....
Study shows disparity in discipline
Native American students in some Minnesota school districts, are
disciplined at higher rates than their counterparts, a study by the St.
Paul Pioneer Press has shown....
Authorities seize tribal records
Records of the Colorado River Tribes of Arizona have been seized by
tribal and Bureau of Indian Affairs police as part of a probe into alleged
misuse of funds....
Yellow Bird: Success in Indian preference
"Merril Berg was the subject of my “Prairie Voices” interview on Sunday
(“Building Cankdeska Cikana,” Page 1D, May 5)....
R.I. holding gaming hearings
The Rhode Island House plans to hold 28 public hearings starting this
summer as part of a study on gaming....
Colo. revokes permit granted in error
The state of Colorado has revoked a permit to an oil and gas company
that would have allowed for higher than legal pollution into water
upstream from the Southern Ute Tribe....
Mormons eye federal property
Six members of Congress, all members of the Mormon Church, are trying
to transfer a national historic site to the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints....
Biopiracy treaty said failed
A treaty aimed at preserving and protecting biological species around
the world has resulted in bureaucratic bungles, according to the scientific
community which pushed for it....
Drop in tax revenues tied to tribe
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation's grocery store is being linked to dropping
sales tax revenues in an Oklahoma city....
Calif. mascot bill gains momentum
A bill to outlaw all Indian-related mascots in California is seeing little
opposition....
Memo shows Enron manipulated market
Federal regulators investigating Enron on Monday released two
documents showing how the bankrupt company manipulated energy
markets in California through various techniques....
N***** e-mail draws lawsuit
A Washington, DC, African-American chef and restaurant owner has
filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Starwood hotel chain....
U.S. pulls out of war court treaty
The Bush administration on Monday announced it was withdrawing
formally from a treaty to establish an international war crimes tribunal....
Wis. tribe eyes power plant
The St Croix Ojibwe of Wisconsin are considering building a gas-fired
power plant that would generate 70 to 100 megawatts of electricity....
Ariz. gaming bill advances
The Arizona Senate on Monday approved a bill to implement gaming
compacts Governor Jane Hull signed with the state's tribes....
Seminole's Chief Haney restored to power
A Code of Federal Regulations court today restored Jerry Haney as
principal chief of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma....
Tribe challenged by own law firm
In February, the Mississippi Band of Choctaws of Louisiana became the
first tribe in the nation to own a new car dealership....
Pow-wow bias lawsuit allowed
A Minnesota school is claiming the future of its pow-wow is in doubt
because of a lawsuit filed by a group of Native women....
Tribes 'dodge' labor laws
Tribes with successful casinos are getting a boost by ignoring labor laws,
The Wall Street Journal reports today....
Winnebago chairman writes to WSJ
Winnebago chairman John Blackhawk: "Your breathless concern that
Indian country is being invaded by the Mafia also runs counter to the
facts....
Peyote limited to recognized U.S. Natives
State and federal authorities in Texas are limiting the sale of peyote to
members of federally recognized United States tribes....
Politician's ties to tribe questioned
A Democratic candidate for governor of Texas is being accused by a rival
of benefiting from the gaming industry....
U.S. wants award to Navajo widow reduced
Government attorneys on Monday admitted the Indian Health Service
wrongly diagnosed a Navajo man who died of the hantavirus but argued
a $2 million award to his widow is unjustified....
Yakama Nation wants fish ladders
The Yakama Nation of Washington wants the federal government to
install fish ladders when repairs are made to the Keechelus Dam....
Editorial: Norton slaps America
The Denver Post today criticizes the Department of Interior for holding a
private meeting with the drilling industry, saying the "secrecy slaps the
American people in the face."
The meeting occurs today in Denver with members of the Independent
Petroleum Association....
Sides appeal Cayuga Nation ruling
The state of New York, local counties, private landowners and the
Cayuga Nation have all appealed the tribe's $250 million land claim
award on various grounds....
Alaska Native victory challenged
The group behind Alaska's English-only law is trying to save its own
initiative from certain death....
Native corp reports $21M loss
Sealaska, an Alaska Native regional corporation, reported a $21 million
loss on $146 million in revenues in 2001....
Haskell football gets new coach
The football team at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas is
getting a new coach....
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Appeals court halts tax-free ruling for Natives
Citing potential "chaos" to the country's revenue system, Canada's
Court of Appeal has put a halt to a ruling that freed tens of thousands of
Natives from paying federal taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and other
goods....
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The Week in Review
Court monitor renews criticism of trust reform efforts,
Wayne Smith stays in the spotlight for old ties, federal
judge throws out Black Seminole lawsuit, and United States
indicts for deaths of Native activists....
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No one jumps into trust fund hot seats
Five months after a court-ordered shutdown, and more than a year since
a Bureau of Indian Affairs official first disclosed major security leaks, the
Department of Interior still can't find anyone to fill its top information
technology posts....
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Halt to trust records move extended
The federal judge overseeing the individual Indian trust fund on Friday
extended a temporary restraining order preventing the Department of
Interior from moving 32,000 boxes of records....
Utah cops accused of brutality
The director of the Utah Division of Indian Affairs is alleging three Native
Americans were physically harassed by local law enforcement, Salt Lake
Tribune columnists Rolly and Wells report today....
John Potter: Hope springs eternal
"It's time to think thoughts and write columns not so heavy, and think
not of stock market, high crime or mill levy....
Miami Nation stirred by rival
The Miami Nation of Indiana is upset with the federally recognized Miami
Nation of Oklahoma....
Ozzy a smash at White House press dinner
President Bush and comedian Drew Carey got some laughs but the star
of Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Association dinner was
Ozzy Osbourne....
Kan. Indian business group started
Native business leaders in Kansas are launching the state's first
American Indian chamber of commerce....
Court halts pending Makah whale hunt
A federal judge in Washington on Friday told the Makah Nation to put a
halt to pending whale hunting activities....
Tribes plan to challenge mine plan
The Fort Belknap Tribes of Montana are challenging a plan to cleanup a
mine near their reservation....
Peabody denies water use claims
Peabody Energy, the largest coal company in the world, is blaming
drought and increased population for springs that are drying up near the
Hopi and Navajo reservations in northeastern Arizona....
N.M. tribe develops owl plan
The Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico recently agreed to a
management plan with the federal government regarding the protection
of spotted owls....
Crow chairman indicted
The chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana has been indicted in federal
court on charges of conspiracy, bribery and stealing money from the
tribe....
Editorial: Mascot bill goes too far
In an editorial today, The Christian Science Monitor says a California bill
banning mascots goes too far because there is no "national consensus"
on the issue....
Attack on Indian rights worker doubted
An anthropologist who has worked for the Quileute Tribe of Washington is
being accused of staging an attack....
Griles discounts meeting invite
An upcoming oil industry meeting featuring Department of Interior
officials will not be used to bash bureaucrats, Deputy Secretary J....
Students almost protest Norton
Some students at the Colorado School of Mines weren't happy this past
Friday when Secretary of Interior Gale Norton delivered their school's
commencement address....
Coeur d'Alene voters go to polls
Voters of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Idaho returned longtime chairman
Ernie Stensgar to the tribal council over the weekend....
Chippewas want to be separate from Cree
Descendants of Chippewa Chief Asiniweyin are asserting their own status
separate of the Cree and Metis of the Rocky Boy's Reservation in
Montana....
Navajo royalty owners get IOUs
The Department of Interior is promising to pay thousands of Navajo
royalty owners but so far all they have received is rhetoric, said Rep.
Tom Udall (D-N.M.)....
Pueblos take in $97 million on slots
The first quarter of 2002 has been good to some tribes in New Mexico....
Parties target Native voters
The Democratic and Republican parties are actively targeting Indian
Country voters, according to their respective chiefs....
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