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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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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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Colorado River Indian Tribes - You finally exposed the limitations of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act....


New Mexico officials have dated four sets of remains uncovered near a dam to the 1800s....


A federal judge this week refused to dismiss a land claim lawsuit filed by the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma....


Karen Dixon-Blazer says she was wrongly fired from her job as executive director of Navajo Preparatory School in New Mexico....


Acoma Pueblo author Simon Ortiz will received one of two honorary doctorates this year from the University of New Mexico....


The 21 students graduating from the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico will receive a comedic send-off....


The Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts, like others in New England, will have to wait before its casino dreams are realized....


Tribes in Arizona are drafting a ballot initiative to support Indian gaming....


The Ponca Nation of Oklahoma has joined forces with a labor union to protest a chemical plant....


"We in the non-Native American gaming industry face a regulatory system that is more stringent, which results in an unfair, anticompetitive marketplace....


The Idaho Secretary of State has certified a Class III gaming initiative sponsored by two tribes....


The Bush administration is moving to stop a federal judge's ruling from impacting the mining industry....


A federal appeals court unanimously ruled on Thursday that a Clinton appointee to the U.S....


President Bush and Republicans attacked Democrats on Thursday for not confirming appointees to the federal bench fast enough....


John Graham is the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and a White House official with great influence....


The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans currently live in Wisconsin but the tribe's roots are in New York....


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....


An attorney representing 300,000 American Indian trust fund beneficiaries is decrying the Department of Justice's criticism of a court official....


Members of the Puyallup Tribe of Washington will receive $2,000 a month in casino revenues....


Two rival factions of the Seminole Nation are asserting power over the Oklahoma tribe....


Fire crews on Thursday continued to battle a 750-acre blaze in the Chuska Mountains of New Mexico....


The University of St Thomas in Minnesota on Thursday announced it was canceling its annual pow-wow because of a court challenge....


Fifteen members of the Western Shoshone Nation are wrapping up their 240-mile Run on Sacred Lands in Nevada today....


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....


Drinking in public can't get you arrested in Nebraska even though it is a violation of liquor laws....


Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles won't deal with future coalbed methane studies in the Powder River Basin....


Federal authorities investigated Ute Mountain Ute chairwoman Judy Knight-Frank for years before the Colorado leader was indicted this week....


Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas is in dire financial straits, The Lawrence Journal-World reports today....


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....


Closing arguments in a trial addressing law enforcement services provided to Alaska Native villages were heard on Thursday....


The Blackfeet Nation of Montana has renewed a cross-jurisdictional agreement with the state....


The Navajo Nation is awaiting a response from a Utah school board regarding the Devil, a tribal spokesperson told The Salt Lake Tribune....


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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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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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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A very special honor was bestowed yesterday upon Sen....

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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....


The Bush administration is opening public debate on a proposal to encourage same-sex public schools....


The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to allow a drilling company to explore for oil in a national monument in Colorado....


The experience in the Bush administration must have soured him....


The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island will observe work at a site in Connecticut to ensure any uncovered artifacts are protected....


Yellowstone National Park will play host to Indian events over the weekend....


Plans by Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico to construct a large hotel are being questioned....


Police in Connecticut have in custody a man accused of stealing more than $250,000 in casino chips from the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation....


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....


Three of four women arrested while protesting bison policies of the state of Montana have pleaded guilty....


A Colombian rebel group indicted in the U.S....


Erika Washee Stanley and Carlene Nofire-Morris are Students of the Year at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas....


The FBI came under fire on Wednesday for not following up on information Democratic Senators said might have prevented the September 11 terrorist attacks....


The Seminole Nation tribal office in Oklahoma is still being held by Ken Chambers and his supporters....


In an editorial today, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader calls for South Dakota and the rest of the nation to include Native American voters....


The Nevada Gaming Control Board is delaying a vote to allow shareholders of an Alaska Native corporation to take in profits from a casino....


The Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission held its annual meeting in Washington on Wednesday....


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....


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....


A federal jury in New Mexico acquitted former Acoma Pueblo Gov....


A nemesis of Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye was endorsed on Wednesday....


Shoshone-Bannock Nation Chairman Blaine Edmo defended himself on Wednesday from accusations by an Idaho county Sheriff....


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....


Two Alaska Native women are running for governor and lt....


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....


An advisory panel to the U.S....

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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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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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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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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....


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....


The White House and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday defended Army head Thomas E....


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....


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....


The Department of Justice submitted two legal briefs to the Supreme Court asserting the rights of U.S....


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....


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....


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....


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....


A federal judge has approved an agreement between the federal government and a homebuilders association that dissolves critical habitats for 19 species of salmon....


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....


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....


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....


The school board of Navajo Preparatory in New Mexico fired executive director Karen Dixon-Blazer on Tuesday....


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....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton has established a task force to review her department's law enforcement and recommend changes....


A Native ceremony will be held on Friday when the state of Oklahoma adds the names of fallen officers to its Law Enforcement Memorial....


Judith Knight-Frank, chief of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of Colorado, has been indicted on 11 federal felony charges....


Officials in New Mexico are treating the discovery of four sets of human remains as an ancient burial site....

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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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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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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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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....


There 18 seats to fill on a task force created to study casino gaming in the state of Maine....


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....


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....


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....


"Merril Berg was the subject of my “Prairie Voices” interview on Sunday (“Building Cankdeska Cikana,” Page 1D, May 5)....


The Rhode Island House plans to hold 28 public hearings starting this summer as part of a study on gaming....


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....


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....


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....


The Citizen Potawatomi Nation's grocery store is being linked to dropping sales tax revenues in an Oklahoma city....


White House counsel Albert Gonzales and Sen....


A bill to outlaw all Indian-related mascots in California is seeing little opposition....


Federal regulators investigating Enron on Monday released two documents showing how the bankrupt company manipulated energy markets in California through various techniques....


A Washington, DC, African-American chef and restaurant owner has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Starwood hotel chain....


The Bush administration on Monday announced it was withdrawing formally from a treaty to establish an international war crimes tribunal....


The St Croix Ojibwe of Wisconsin are considering building a gas-fired power plant that would generate 70 to 100 megawatts of electricity....


The Arizona Senate on Monday approved a bill to implement gaming compacts Governor Jane Hull signed with the state's tribes....


A Code of Federal Regulations court today restored Jerry Haney as principal chief of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma....


In February, the Mississippi Band of Choctaws of Louisiana became the first tribe in the nation to own a new car dealership....


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 with successful casinos are getting a boost by ignoring labor laws, The Wall Street Journal reports today....


Winnebago chairman John Blackhawk: "Your breathless concern that Indian country is being invaded by the Mafia also runs counter to the facts....


The Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma has shut down its casino again....


State and federal authorities in Texas are limiting the sale of peyote to members of federally recognized United States tribes....


A Democratic candidate for governor of Texas is being accused by a rival of benefiting from the gaming industry....


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....


The Yakama Nation of Washington wants the federal government to install fish ladders when repairs are made to the Keechelus Dam....


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....


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....


The group behind Alaska's English-only law is trying to save its own initiative from certain death....


Sealaska, an Alaska Native regional corporation, reported a $21 million loss on $146 million in revenues in 2001....


The football team at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas is getting a new coach....

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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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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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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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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....


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....


"It's time to think thoughts and write columns not so heavy, and think not of stock market, high crime or mill levy....


The Miami Nation of Indiana is upset with the federally recognized Miami Nation of Oklahoma....


President Bush and comedian Drew Carey got some laughs but the star of Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Association dinner was Ozzy Osbourne....


Native business leaders in Kansas are launching the state's first American Indian chamber of commerce....


A federal judge in Washington on Friday told the Makah Nation to put a halt to pending whale hunting activities....


The Fort Belknap Tribes of Montana are challenging a plan to cleanup a mine near their reservation....


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....


The Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico recently agreed to a management plan with the federal government regarding the protection of spotted owls....


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....


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....


An anthropologist who has worked for the Quileute Tribe of Washington is being accused of staging an attack....


An upcoming oil industry meeting featuring Department of Interior officials will not be used to bash bureaucrats, Deputy Secretary J....


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....


Voters of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Idaho returned longtime chairman Ernie Stensgar to the tribal council over the weekend....


Descendants of Chippewa Chief Asiniweyin are asserting their own status separate of the Cree and Metis of the Rocky Boy's Reservation in Montana....


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.)....


The first quarter of 2002 has been good to some tribes in New Mexico....


The Democratic and Republican parties are actively targeting Indian Country voters, according to their respective chiefs....