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A House panel this week approved legislation that would allow the Bush administration to settle certain trust fund accounts without going through the federal judge overseeing the Cobell case and subject the rest to a statistical sampling, a method overwhelmingly rejected by Indian beneficiaries....

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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....


A Navajo man who was killed in an hit and run accident in Phoenix, Arizona, may have been intoxicated, The Arizona Republic reports....


The four tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy met in Alberta, Canada, on Thursday to discuss treaty, legal, border and other issues....


An appeals committee of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin will hold a hearing to discuss the dismissal of two tribal gaming commissioners....


The Seneca Nation of New York is interested in a casino in the Catskills, The Albany Times Union reports....


The Hopi Tribe of Arizona is holding a special election next week for the vice chairman post....


President Bush this week rejected an offer to work with Democrats and Republicans on a potential Supreme Court nomination....


Every year, the Canadian government doles out $5 to every Native man, woman and child, honoring a treaty promise made more than a century ago....


The family of Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, will be honored guests at next week's dedication of the Indian memorial at the Little Bighorn National Monument....


A judge in British Columbia, Canada, has thrown out charges against non-Native fishermen who took part in an illegal fishery, saying that the federal government has fallen to "political correctness" by promoting Aboriginal rights....


Department of Interior officials won't meet with the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa to discuss the tribe's ongoing leadership dispute because one faction has decided not to attend....


The Osage Nation of Oklahoma plans to ask Congress to pass legislation that would reaffirm the tribe's powers of self-government, chief Jim Gray says....


Tim Smiley, a man from the Flathead Reservation in Montana, is seeking federal recognition for all the "lost" Salish, Kootenai and Pend Oreille descendants....


California Senator Jim Battin (R) said he won't accept business from tribes after receiving criticism for soliciting tribal clients....


Desson Howe: "Watching this delightful film, one can see why it has been winning audience favorite awards at film festivals....


The Native American Journalists Association released its annual Reading Red Report, calling on the news media to stop using Indian mascot names in their coverage of sports....


A herd of bison recently set loose by its own continues to evade roundup on the Umatilla Reservation in Oregon....


After reading a Wall Street Journal article about the Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado, a Houston businessman thought he may have found the expensive diamond bracelet his wife lost in the area....


The British Columbia government is launching a web site to keep Native languages alive....


Rick Lupe, a firefighter for the White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona, died on Thursday, five weeks after suffering third-degree burns over 40 percent of his body....

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Citing threats that include a shooting range, a highway project and a power plant, Indian advocates called on the federal government to ensure the highest protections for sacred places....


A coalition of First Nations in the Northwest Territories of Canada signed a deal to clear the way for a $3 billion natural gas pipeline....


The Department of Interior will meet with the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa in an attempt to resolve a leadership dispute that has shuttered the tribe's casino....


Members of the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa should be allowed to resolve a leadership dispute within the tribe, The Quad City Times says in an editorial....


The Catholic bishop in Phoenix, Arizona, who has been arrested in connection with the hit and run death of a Navajo Nation man resigned on Wednesday....


California Senator Jim Battin (R) is asking gaming tribes to hire his public relations and media company, The Los Angeles Times reports....


The House Resources Committee on Wednesday held a hearing to consider a bill that would distribute a $142 million trust fund to members of the Western Shoshone Nation....


The Bush administration doesn't oppose a bill to land swap between the Eastern Band of Cherokees and the National Park Service, an official said on Wednesday....


The Nevada Indian Commission wants to turn the old Stewart Indian School into a cultural center and museum....


The wife of a former Bureau of Indian Affairs judge and employee of the Eastern Cherokee Tribe of North Carolina has been charged with murdering her deceased husband....


Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, came under fire during a March 23 ambush in Iraq but there is no evidence she was shot, The Arizona Republic reports....


Navajo Nation leaders and health officials are taking aim at growing rates of syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases on the reservation....


President Bush plans to nominate a White House lawyer for a spot on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, The Washington Post reports....


Two gaming commissioners for the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin say they were unfairly terminated....


Lawmakers should keep all options open when considering how to cleanup the Tar Creek Superfund site in Oklahoma, The Daily Oklahoman says in an editorial....


An animal shelter on the Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico, will close this week, The Farmington Daily Times reports....


With 94 percent of the reservation containing timber assets, the Menominee Nation of Wisconsin is eager to exploit its natural resources but also careful to preserve them for future generations....


A Cherokee group seeking state recognition in Louisiana is promising not to open a casino during the next 99 years....


Federal authorities have laid charges against a Navajo man for the shooting death of another tribal member....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs has neither approved nor denied gaming agreements for two Wisconsin tribes....


The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community of Michigan is seeking to take a former airport into trust for a casino project....


The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is opposing an attempt to remove the federal judge overseeing the $8 billion cleanup of the Everglades....

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The Tohono O'odham Nation needs land for agricultural use....

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A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a South Dakota tribe's attempt to halt a land deal affecting sacred sites, burial grounds and cultural artifacts along the Missouri River....


The Confederated Umatilla Tribes of Oregon are consulting with other tribes on the best way to round up a herd of bison running loose on the reservation....


A former Bureau of Indian Affairs judge for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians was found shot to death in his home in North Carolina....


Two New York teens were able to buy cigarettes online from Indian-owned businesses, state lawmakers said....


The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska fired its social services director after he was arrested on charges of child abuse....


The Gila River Tribe of Arizona has purchased slot machine rights from the Zuni Tribe....


The National Congress of American Indians is sponsoring a project to increase Native participation in the upcoming 2004 elections....


Employees of the Agua Caliente Cahuilla Tribe of California held a protest against a union trying to organize at the tribe's casino....


Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) is the latest Democrat to write President Bush about a potential Supreme Court vacancy....


Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne (R) is President Bush's top pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, The Washington Post reports....


"River Spirits," a new anthology published by the University of North Carolina-Pembroke, showcases 49 Lumbee writers....


The House Resources Committee will hold a hearing today to consider two controversial bills....


"Sherman Alexie has never been one to view the world in terms of red and white....


A trial is underway in Alaska over a challenge to the state's English only law....


The only way to stem the sale of liquor in the Nebraska border town of Whiteclay is to attack alcoholism, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


Lawyers for Peabody Coal have asked a federal judge to dismiss the Navajo Nation's billion-dollar racketeering suit against the company....


A Massachusetts superior court judge ruled last week that the Gay Head Wampanoag Tribe's sovereign immunity was not waived by the tribe's settlement legislation....


Police in Phoenix, Arizona, are focusing on the possible use of alcohol by a Catholic bishop who has been arrested in connection with the hit and run death of a Navajo man....


The suspended director of the Department of Interior office that handles leases for Navajo tribal members is being made a "scapegoat" for the government's trust fund mismanagement, a Navajo leader said....


Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, died shortly after being arriving at an Iraqi hospital, according to a Washington Post article....


"In 1928 the Alex Johnson Hotel was opened in downtown Rapid City....

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The Washington senator who defeated noted sovereignty foe Slade Gorton with the help of Indian voters urged tribal leaders on Monday to advocate for judicial nominees who respect Indian rights....

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The acting head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs extended an olive branch to the nation's largest inter-tribal organization on Monday, citing a need to heal a fractured relationship that has hindered efforts to reform the broken Indian trust....


Eight teens from the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota will show their own original photography and other items at a new exhibit....


Connecticut's two tribal casinos reported strong slot machine earnings for the month of May....


A re-enactment of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, using modern reporting practices, will be broadcast June 25 on radio stations in South Dakota and Wyoming....


"I had a most excellent adventure this past weekend when I interviewed Dr....


The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Oklahoma tribe's recent election....


South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds (R) will be the keynote speaker for commencement ceremonies at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation....


American Indian develop and die from cervical cancer more than anyone else in the country, The Rapid City Journal reports....


Agnes "Oshanee" Kenmille, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana, was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship for folk and traditional arts from the National Endowment for the Arts....


Members of Florida tribes have been playing the Miccosukee Mixed, a mostly Indian bowling league....


The Coastal Miwok Tribe of California has asked the Department of Interior to take 2,000 acres of land into trust for gaming purposes....


Police in Phoenix arrested a Catholic bishop on Monday in connection with the hit and run death of Jim Lee Reed, a member of the Navajo Nation....


Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski (R) vetoed funding for law enforcement in 15 Alaska Native villages....


Former Montana governor Marc Racicot was named head of President Bush's 2004 re-election campaign....


The leaders of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee both earned about $150,000 last year with Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado) reporting assets of at least $2.5 million and additional income of at least $397,000, according to financial disclosure statements reported on Tuesday The statements don't report exact information because earnings assets and liabilities are reported as a range....


The National Congress of American Indians passed a resolution on Monday to back the renaming of a peak in Arizona for Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq....


Tribes need to work directly with Congress and the White House because communication with the Department of Interior is "futile," a Navajo Nation council member said at a tribal summit....


With the help of revenues from two casinos, the Fond du Lac Ojibwe Tribe of Minnesota has brought members of poverty, increased development on the reservation and become the largest employer in the county....

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It only took a several months of constant tribal criticism but Secretary of Interior Gale Norton finally dropped her BITAM proposal a year ago this week....

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Traditional allies of Indian Country were on opposite sides of the fence this week as the Senate took up a bill that seeks to encourage energy development projects on tribal lands....

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The Bush administration is moving forward with plans to elevate Indian issues within the Department of Education, an official said on Sunday....


Two hundred years after the Lewis and Clark expedition to the West, tribal nations are finally getting a chance to tell their side of the story....


Tom Ranfranz has been replaced as president of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota....


Two Senate Democrats have written letters to President Bush, urging him to work with both political parties on nominations to the Supreme Court....


A woman in northern California has been sent to jail twice for feeding deer but she says she won't stop doing it....


A six-week study in New Mexico will try to determine whether therapeutic massage and a micro-electric nerve stimulator can help treat patients with diabetic neuropathy....


"A friend of mind who was seriously ill with gangrene from his diabetes kept the disease at bay for nearly six months using herb medicines prescribed and fixed by one of the medicine men from Sisseton, S.D....


The Navajo Nation Small Business Department is offering loans of up to $100,000 to tribal members....


Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr....


If the Supreme Court limits the use of race in college admission, tribal advocates say it will have an impact on Indian Country....


"Hosted by Harlan McKosato since 1997, "Native America Calling" is heard on more than 60 stations in the U.S....


No business will ever invest on the reservation unless tribes keep their word, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


State and federal laws and procedures need to be changed in order to respect Native American remains, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


Eric Weinberger of The New York Times reviews "Ten Little Indians," a new collection of short stories by Sherman Alexie, and asks why it isn't more "Indian." "The Indian seems merely incidental, in other words; not integral," Weinberger writes of the nine stories in the book, three of which he says are "wonderful" but the rest not so much....


Alaska Congressman Don Young (R) last week introduced a bill to reauthorize the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to guide how health service are delivered to American Indians and Alaska Natives....


A national employees group is overreacting to a tribal takeover of the National Bison Range in Montana, a Department of Interior spokesperson said....


Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that changes their view of an historic Mandan village in North Dakota....


The National Congress of American Indians official kicks off its mid-year conference today at the Gila River Reservation in Arizona....


The White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona is still recovering from last year's devastating Rodeo-Chediski Fire....


"Living and working in the pressure cooker known as Washington, D.C,....


"The Whale Rider," a movie about a Maori girl who ends up leading her tribe, is opening across the United States to positive reviews....


Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin are recommending a $15 million cut in tribal programs in the state's budget....

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