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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 largest tribe in the nation voiced opposition this week to the energy policy bill under consideration in the Senate, calling it a "severe weakening" of the federal trust relationship....


The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission implanted computer chips in lake trout as part of a study to better understand fish movements....


The Forest County Potawatomi Tribe and the state of Wisconsin have already amended a gaming compact they recently signed....


The Tulalip Tribes of Washington held an invitation-only grand opening of its new $78 million casino....


A Navajo Nation council committee approved a gaming compact to authorize Class III gaming in the community of To'Hajiilee....


A New Zealand tribe will sign a $10.5 million settlement over the Treaty of Waitangi....


Two parties have dropped support for a lawsuit challenging a Department of Interior decision to restore flows in the Trinity River of northern California....


St Cloud State University in Minnesota has launched a multi-year campaign to raise funds to expand the school's American Indian Center....


The South Dakota Archaeological Research Center believes remains found near a school in Brandon date back 1,000 years....


The St Regis Mohawk Tribe of New York will hold an election on Saturday....


Eastern Cherokee principal chief Leon Jones was voted out of a tribal primary Thursday....


The Yakama Nation of Washington plans to sue the Department of Energy for cleanup efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation....


When Deputy Interior Secretary J Steven Griles held a conference call with his former lobbying partner and industry representatives, it was about golf, not business....


The members of the Southern Ute tribal council "have no communication, trust, respect, and can't work together," a council member said in a statement to The Durango Herald....


The Department of Justice has objected to legislation that includes programs for Native Hawaiians, The Honolulu Advertiser reports....


The InterTribal Bison Cooperative (ITBC) and the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) have resurrected an idea the Clinton administration put off as part of a bison management plan for Yellowstone National Park....


A march from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to the border town of Whiteclay will take place tomorrow....


The California Assembly, for the second year in a row, defeated a bill to ban the use of Indian mascots without consultation and approval with tribal governments....


A California superior court jury on Thursday found Marlon Taylor, 20, not guilty for murdering Shane Zotigh, 20, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma....


Students in Calistoga, California, want the city to correct the spelling of a street named for the Wappo Tribe....


A federal judge in South Dakota dismissed one lawsuit against a massive hog farm operation on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation....


A public school district in New Mexico is challenging a $4 million sexual abuse settlement made in Zuni tribal court....


A National Park Service spokesperson defended the agency's plans to send 16 officials to South Africa for an upcoming conference....


"A review of Times-Dispatch editorials on two subjects in recent years has disclosed certain variations....

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Sacred Site Debate The first of a series of hearing on sacred sites was held a year ago this week by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee....

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The Bush administration's plan to account for the Indian trust fund is far from "perfect," a top Department of Interior official said in federal court on Wednesday....

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Associate Interior Deputy Secretary Jim Cason might want to brush up on Department of Interior history....


Tribal leaders from the Northwest said legislation to limit environmental review of hydroelectric power projects will infringe on their treaty and land rights....


"The Minneapolis Star Tribune, probably the nation's most politically correct big-city daily, says it may drop its policy of censoring "offensive" names of sports teams -- specifically, those with American Indian themes such as the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins....


The chairman of the House Resources Committee said tribes should be exempted from a bill to ban Internet gambling....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is being sued for allegedly failing to pay earnings from a tribally-owned hotel to a business partner....


The Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona will host an inauguration on June 27 for chairwoman Vivian Juan-Saunders....


A bill to settle the water rights of the Zuni Tribe of New Mexico was killed on the House floor....


Funding for reservation roads needs to be increased, The Farmington Daily Times says in an editorial....


The Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Community of Minnesota awarded a $1 million grant to the Leech Lake Ojibwe Band to help fight poverty....


The American Indian College Fund has awarded 12 $20,000 scholarship to tribal college students....


Rachel Beth Sayet, a member of the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut, has big plans for her future....


The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma sued three governments in New York to affirm its rights to land in New York....


The Oneida Nation of New York will pay $10 million for a water line that will service its casino and local towns....


A Department of Interior audit found that the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of South Dakota used a tribal trust fund as collateral for $7.4 million in loans to tribal members....


Nation Vice President Frank Dayish Jr....


The United Keetowah Band of Oklahoma is hoping a community garden will help the tribe establish a land base....


Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry (D) doesn't support a group that has criticized Indian gaming and tribal sovereignty, a spokesperson told The Native American Times....


Bill Lawrence, publisher of the Native American Press/Ojibwe News, shared the Freedom of Information Award for 2003 from the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists....


Frank Ferguson, an Inupiat Eskimo who served in the Alaska Legislature and was a former president of the Alaska Federation of Natives, died from what was reported to be a stroke....


The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued two rulings this week affecting the Skokomish Tribe of Washington....


Special trustee Ross Swimmer will testify at the end of the ongoing Indian trust fund trial, a Department of Justice attorney said on Wednesday....


The Makah Nation of Washington is taking part in an ambitious project that will link the remote community to the Internet....


Federal prosecutors say a former Bureau of Indian Affairs firefighter is competent to stand trial for helping to start one the worst fire in Arizona history....


The tribal council for Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico has sanctioned its top leaders, stripping them of certain powers, The Albuquerque Journal reports....

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The US Supreme Court is weighing a number of controversial topics as it wraps up its annual term....

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A fiasco....


Wanna be in Rick "Ricky" Schroder's film about a the life of a young Indian boxer as he makes his way to the Olympics while dealing with his own heritage and relationships? Schroder, of "Silver Spoons" and "NYPD Blue" fame, is directing "Black Cloud" at various locations on the Navajo Nation....


The House canceled a vote on a bill to ban Internet gambling due to lack of support....


The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is recommending William Rodgers Jr., a University of Washington Law School, be appointed special master in an Everglades cleanup suit being heard in federal court....


The Eastern Shoshone Tribe and the Northern Arapaho Tribe, both of Wyoming, have asked the Bureau of Land Management to close off an area used for hunting, medicine gathering and ceremonies to energy development....


More than half of the voters from the Innu First Nation of Labrador have signed a petition against their chief and band council....


First Nations leaders in Canada are battling legislation that seeks to change how they govern themselves....


The May 24 Cherokee Nation election that resulted in the re-election of chief Chad Smith are being challenged by the three losing candidates....


Two California lawmakers and a union-sponsored organization are accusing the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of harassing pro-union workers....


A White Earth tribal judge heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a dispute between the White Earth Tribal and Community College and the tribal council....


The Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan broke ground last Thursday on a inpatient substance abuse treatment center....


Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri visited the Narragansett Reservation on Tuesday, the first visit by a state governor to the tribe's lands in 20 years....


Fort Robinson State Park in Nebraska will hold a ceremony this weekend to commemorate the Cheyenne Outbreak of 1879....


The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma is suing New York Governor George Pataki (R) over his refusal to recognize the tribe's historical and legal ties to the state....


The National Park Service is sending 16 officials to the 5th World Park Congress in Durban, South Africa, this September, Al Kamen of The Washington Post reports....


In case you missed last week's "Now With Bill Moyers," you can read a transcript of the show on Deputy Interior Secretary J....


Rick Lupe, a fuels specialist for the White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona, remains in stable but critical condition at the Arizona Burn Unit in Phoenix the tribe reported on Tuesday....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs' only office in New York is shutting down, The Syracuse Post-Standard reports....


Associate Interior Deputy Secretary Jim Cason will take the stand today to testify in the Indian trust fund trial....


The 19 Pueblo governors in New Mexico plan to ask President Bush to halt the reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Special Trustee, The Albuquerque Journal reports....


Members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana attended a public meeting Tuesday night to defend the tribal takeover of the National Bison Range....

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A labor union representing thousands of Indian employees said on Monday it plans to file suit against the Bush administration to halt an ongoing reorganization at the Department of Interior....

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Federal statutes trump common law trust standards, an expert for the Bush administration said in federal court on Monday....


The Wisconsin Legislature's Joint Finance Committee voted Monday to cut funds from Indian education programs and use them for other tribal-related projects....


The Department of Justice has sided against anti-abortion activists in a case testing the limits of free speech....


The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 along party lines on Monday to relax media ownership regulations....


It's official: US 666, a three-state highway that runs through parts of the Navajo Nation and the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation, has been renumbered US 491....


The Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama has purchased Sequoyah Caverns for $25,000, the Associated Press reports....


The Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe of Connecticut is warning other tribes in the state not to consider looking near Bridgeport to host an off-reservation casino....


"The Navajo language is spoken every day like English on the reservation....


Seven Native comedians will take to the stage at Sky City Casino in New Mexico for the "Jest Jokin'" comedy fest....


The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Tribe of Arizona signed an agreement to provide $5 million for diabetes research....


New York lawmakers are seeking to impose a state ban on smoking to tribal casinos....


Construction on a new campus for the Navajo Nation's Dine College will begin with a $3.5 million contract to a construction firm....


"With old tennies, a warm-up sweater, rain gear thrown in at the last minute, binoculars, bird and prairie-plant books and my digital camera, I went exploring the national wildlife management areas of Lonetree and Chase Lake - a round trip of about 500 miles....


Concern over a tribal land claim in Pennsylvania still has some landowners worried but most of the excitement has died down, the Associated Press reports....


The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of California is releasing a study to counter claims that tribal employees are underpaid....


The Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin is calling for state GOP chairman Rick Graber to resign over a cartoon that has been criticized as racist....


Mitchell Cypress was sworn in as chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida on Monday....


The Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona swore in its first woman chairman, Vivian Juan-Saunders....


A reported 1,000 people attended funeral services for Josh Rutherford, a sheriff in Blaine County, Montana, who was a member of the Assiniboine Tribe....


The Senate Indian Affairs Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow to address two Indian reservation roads proposals....


The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a case involving tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians....


Tribes and fishermen who depend on the Klamath River Basin are joining forces to fight for more water....


Native American students in Washington showed a 7 percentage point gain on national reading and math tests....

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The plaintiffs in the billion-dollar Indian trust fund suit rested their case on Friday, paving the way for the Bush administration to defend its historical accounting and reform plans....

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The Bush administration and Indian Country haven't seen eye to eye on trust reform for quite some time now but tribal leaders still plan on taking their concerns to Congress and the courts, if necessary....


Native American students have the highest dropout rate in North Carolina, according to a new state-sponsored study....


"I wouldn't want my daughter or granddaughter to take a combat role....


"So anyway, I'm "back" -- and I'm here to report that there ain't no bright light at the end of the tunnel....


"The church, built in 1921, is one of the oldest still in use on the reservation....


The Bishop Museum in Hawaii is asking a Native Hawaiian group to dig up 83 ancestral items from a burial cave....


Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico is starting a pilot project to get rid of some of the manure at a racetrack it owns....


A high school student's newspaper article has upset the Cow Creek Umpqua Tribe of Oregon....


The Minneapolis Star Tribune is considering dropping its policy against using Indian nicknames in its sports pages....


As administrator in charge of Indian Education for the Sioux Falls School District in South Dakota, John Derby hopes to improve graduation rates of Indian students....


US District Judge Royce Lamberth on Friday held the Iranian government liable for the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon....


Claims of police brutality against an American Indian man should be investigated, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


An opposition group says the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana shouldn't assume management of the National Bison Range....


The state of New Mexico is asking Laguna Pueblo to share more of its casino revenues....


The Chinook Nation of Washington, whose ancestors greeted the Lewis and Clark expedition on the final leg to the Pacific Northwest, is hoping Congress will do what the Bush administration will not....


The Department of Justice is backing the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida in a case before the Supreme Court....


Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor saved the water rights of two Wyoming tribes in a last-minute change of heart....


A bill legalizing certain Class II/Class III games in Oklahoma died after lack of support in the House....


A group of Native Americans has filed suit against the federal government, alleging sexual, physical and other abuse at Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools....


The Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is filing suit against the Department of Interior for alleged mismanagement of its trust assets....


Three tribes in Wisconsin pull in about three-fourths of the state's casino revenue, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports....


A federal court has recommended that the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas receive $270.6 million in compensation from the federal government....

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