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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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The federal government has always had a duty to account for the Indian trust fund, the Department of Interior official in charge of reforming the system said on Thursday....


The Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is using a wind turbine to generate electricity for at least 220 homes....


The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a California law that allowed prosecution of sex abuse cases even after the statute of limitations had expired....


The FBI paid a recent visit to the Navajo Nation's Division of Social Services as part of an investigation into the alleged misuse of federal housing funds, The Gallup Independent reports....


The Hopi Tribe of Arizona held a special primary for vice-chair on Wednesday....


Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr....


consortium of research institutions is eyeing a new location for a telescope project....


Funeral services are scheduled Saturday for Arlo Hasse, a non-Indian who advocated for the rights of the Dakota people in Minnesota....


A New York county filed a brief in response to the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe's land rights lawsuit....


Members of California's Congressional delegation have introduced a bill to make it harder for the Department of Interior to take land into trust for a restored tribe....


A faction of the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa held an election last night to vote on a law firm that reportedly charged the tribe $340,000 for one month of work....


US District Judge Royce Lamberth questioned special trustee Ross Swimmer this week about efforts to reform the broken Indian trust....


Archaeologists at the University of North Carolina have unearthed Catawba tribal settlements dating to the 1700s....


The Supreme Court today announced it will hear a case affecting the $8 billion cleanup of the Everglades....


A new ABC Family Channel program called Switched! is seeking Indian teens to swap lives with other teens....


The Confederated Umatilla Tribes of Oregon had ordered a private rancher to comply with tribal environmental law for a bison herd that is now loose on the reservation....


The Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Thursday approved a bill to reauthorize the Indian Reservation Roads program....


The descendants of a Minniconjou warrior who fought at the June 25, 1876, Battle of Little Bighorn dedicated a marker to him at the battle site....


Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal is calling on the Bureau of Land Management to restrict drilling in the Jack Morrow Hills in order to protect sacred sites....


"At least the Bible doesn't date creation....


Four Navajo comedians are using their experiences with substance abuse to send a positive and humorous message to their audience....

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The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust on Wednesday expressed skepticism about failed efforts to fix the broken system, challenging special trustee Ross Swimmer to explain why the Bush administration's plans won't suffer the same fate....

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Are you a retired Bureau of Indian Affairs bureaucrat who actually remembers how trust works? Do you want to start a new career that could take you to the places you've already been? Then work for Special Trustee Ross Swimmer! That's right, if you act now, you just might be hired by the Office of Special Trustee as a fiduciary trust officer....


The Forest County Potawatomi Tribe of Wisconsin is studying the possibility of adding a hotel to its off-reservation casino in Milwaukee....


Navajo leaders are pushing President Joe Shirley Jr....


The Na'al Kid Summer Film Festival is being held at San Juan College in New Mexico Friday through Sunday....


The British Columbia government has ratified an agreement-in-principle to settle outstanding claims for the Lheidli T'enneh First Nation....


Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon signed an executive order on Wednesday creating the state's Native American Indian Affairs Commission....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut unveiled plans for a new golf course resort on non-trust land....


The Rhode Island House Finance Committee unveiled new legislation that would put a casino before state voters in 2004, restoring language that would tie the proposal to a specific operator....


Forty years ago, unemployment among members of Mississippi's Choctaw Tribe was 80 percent....


The House Appropriations Committee approved the Department of Interior's $19.6 billion spending bill for fiscal year 2004....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is offering to buy back some of the bonds used to finance a $1 billion expansion of its casino, The New London Day reports....


The Shadow Wolves, a special group of Native American customs agents who have been responsible for some of the largest seizures of illegal drugs on the U.S.-Mexico border, say they are worried about being folded into the new Department of Homeland Security....


Artists who want to exhibit their works at the Hispanic Arts Building at the New Mexico State Fair will be asked to declare their Hispanic heritage....


Remains uncovered at a site slated for a coal mine are in limbo as federal officials and a power company try to work out a reburial agreement....


Jacqui White Hat, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, is part of an elite Air Force unit that provides medical service to injured or ill troops....


Law enforcement officials in Texas are furious that a 9-year-old girl from the Kickapoo Tribe was buried ceremoniously in Mexico without an autopsy or further investigation....


After 127 years of waiting, the memorial to the Indian warriors who fought at the June 25, 1876, Battle of Little Bighorn was dedicated on Wednesday....


A 19-year-old member of the Crow Tribe of Montana won the Ultimate Warrior Challenge, held on the Crow Reservation, on Wednesday....


The family of Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, was a guest of honor at Wednesday's dedication of an Indian memorial at the Battle of Little Bighorn....


Tesuque Pueblo in New Mexico has broken ground on a new church to replace the historic one that was burned last June....


A California man was sentenced to four years in connection with the death of Shane Zotigh, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma....

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In approving a $19.6 billion budget for the Department of Interior, a House subcommittee last week embraced the Bush administration's criticisms of the Cobell trust fund lawsuit....


M-H-A Systems, a company owned by the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation of North Dakota, has won a $3.4 million Department of Defense contract....


A teenage girl from the Swinomish Tribe is appearing on a new ABC Family Channel program called Switched! in which teens switch places for four days....


A new Boys and Girls Club will open on the Navajo Nation, bringing the total number of clubs on the reservation to 14....


Conan White Face, 24, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to second-degree murder for the beating death of a man on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota....


A man from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota was found dead inside a semi-trailer parked in Sioux Falls....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is meeting local requirements for construction at its golf course resort, The New London Day reports....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is announcing plans to expand its successful casino....


Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle (D) asked the state Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging his ability to enter into gaming compacts with tribes....


The House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee has restored funds to the United Tribes Technical College in North Dakota....


President Bush signed the Zuni Pueblo water settlement into law on Monday....


The Rhode Island House Finance Committee is scheduled to consider a bill that would put a casino before state voters but it may die before the end of the legislative session....


Special trustee Ross Swimmer is expected to take the stand this afternoon as the Bush administration's final witness in the ongoing trust fund trial....


The state of Colorado has created a license plate to raise scholarship money for Indian college students....


A police commissioner in British Columbia, Canada, has reopened a probe into the death of a Mi'kmaq man who died after being held in police custody....


A jury in New Mexico found a former Navajo medicine man guilty of raping a pregnant woman....


The Indian warriors who fought at the June 25, 1876, Battle of Little Bighorn were simply defending their families and way of life, The Rapid City Journal says in an editorial....


Horses are playing a role in today's dedication of a memorial to the Indian warriors who fought at the June 25, 1876, Battle of Little Bighorn....


The Oneida Nation of Wisconsin said Monday's Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action underscores the continuing need for Indian preference....


Problems uncovered in a recent Department of Interior investigation are only "the tip of a very old iceberg," The Farmington Daily Times says in an editorial....


The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a case challenging the eviction of non-Indians from Lake Havasu....


Four men have filed suit against the Catholic Church for alleged sexual abuse at a church in an Alaska village....

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The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the use of race in college admissions in two narrow rulings that have implications for Native American students nationwide....

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The Bush administration has doled out more than $3 million in taxpayer funds to private attorneys representing current and past government officials, a policy that will continue despite the effects of trust reform on other Indian programs at the Department of Interior....


A New Mexico artist painted over a mural featuring an Indian after receiving threats and criticism from some members of the local community....


The Environmental Protection Administration released a report on Monday summarizing the nation's environmental state....


The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of a federal law that requires public libraries to use software that filters out objectionable Internet content....


The Connecticut Traffic Commission is asking the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation to stop work on a driveway leading to its golf course, The New London Day reports....


A judge in New York refused to block a state law banning the sale of cigarettes online....


The board that has run the popular Shiprock Fair said it will sue a Navajo Nation chapter for giving control of the event to another entity....


The Little Shell Tribe of Montana will hold a new election to resolve a dispute over the tribe's leadership....


Patty Talahongva, a member of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, was re-elected president of the Native American Journalists Association....


"As I watched 29 young people board a bus for a Winnipeg outing Sunday, I noticed that among the sweaters, pillows and snacks which several were clutching was the new "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." When I made that observation to a counselor, she smiled and said her copy would be in the mail when she got home. J.K....


Bush administration officials praised the outcome of Monday's decision upholding affirmative action despite asking the Supreme Court to reject the University of Michigan's admissions programs....


A smoke grenade was found near the Alaska Native village of Tanacross on Monday as part of a review of the environmental impact of an air force base....


The Oneida First Nation of Ontario, Canada, has purchased a house on ancestral territory in New York....


A newly elected St Regis / Akwesasne Mohawk chief says the tribe should renegotiate a $15 million annual fee the previous administration agreed to pay a county to host a casino....


Allen Pinkham, an historian for the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho, is collaborating on a book that will explain the the tribe's role in the Lewis and Clark expedition....


Chris Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe of North Dakota, says he used sage and sweetgrass to protect his fellow U.S....


Through lifestyle changes, the Ak-Chin Indian Community is combating diabetes, a disease that affects about a third of tribal members....


Two First Nations from British Columbia asked Canada's Supreme Court on Monday to overturn a decision denying them monetary damages for a land claim....


Some tribal members see the dedication of a memorial to the Indian warriors who fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn as the first step in a reconciliation process....


A Massachusetts judge will be asked to reconsider a ruling that upheld the Gay Head Wampanoag Tribe's sovereignty....

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The first assessment of the nation's public school system since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act showed mixed results for American Indian and Alaska Native students....

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The National Congress of American Indians hosted its mid-year session this week, drawing tribal leaders and their representatives to the Gila River Reservation in Arizona to discuss major issues facing Indian Country....


A study published in the Annals of Family Medicine shows a low rate of Caesarean sections among Zuni and Navajo women in New Mexico....


"You've never heard of Pawhuska....


"Last year, while exalting Larry McMurtry as the most popular writer of the American West, the Los Angeles Times relegated Sherman Alexie--without specifically naming him--to a group of praiseworthy Western writers who lack mass appeal largely because they explore only microcosmic corners of this vast region. True, no contemporary author has succeeded in popular Western fiction like McMurtry, the old stud horse in the sparse herd of the region's literary writers....


A faction of the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa says the Bureau of Indian Affairs would agree to a new election if conducted fairly, a claim disputed by a rival Meskwaki group....


Diane Fraher is shooting "The Reawakening," a film about a tribal casino project, on Onondaga Nation territory in New York....


The leader of a racist group says he won't leave a town near the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming despite losing his job being given the cold shoulder from the community....


Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon will issue an executive order this week to create the state's first American Indian commission....


Douglas Nash, a member of the Nez Perce Tribe, is joining the faculty of University of Idaho College of Law as an associate law professor....


Women are now in charge of eight of 22 tribes in Arizona, The Arizona Republic says in an editorial....


Information about treaties, language tapes and photographs can be found at the library run by the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Idaho....


Members of all of Alaska's major tribes, plus some from the lower 48, took part in Spirit Days, a two-day celebration of Native culture....


Members of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona returned to the Chaco Cultural National Historical Park to observer the summer solstice with traditional dances and ceremonies....


The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is trying to find a new job for the only American Indian in the Senate, John McCaslin of The Washington Times reports....


The Akwesasne Mohawk Nation of New York held a run-off election for one of the tribe's chief positions....


Spiritual elders, Native veterans, tribal leaders and government officials will dedicate a memorial to the Indian warriors who fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876....


Jim Lee Reed, a Navajo man who was the victim of a June 14 hit and run accident was buried in Tuba City, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation....


Tribal leaders will be meeting with Senate staff July 2 to discuss Indian energy development legislation....


"The Bush administration, in particular its interior secretary, Gale Norton, has always wanted to transfer more control of America's public lands to state and local governments and to open them to a wider range of commercial and recreational uses....


In nearly three years, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has grown from a non-profit organization with $33,000 in the bank to a fully functioning government with a $10 million budget....

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