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A federal judge on Thursday raised doubts about the continued slaughter of bison that wander out of Yellowstone National Park in a ruling that was praised by tribes and environmentalists....

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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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It has been said the Bureau of Indian Affairs acts only when a court or Congress directs them to do so....


An appeals court in Mexico sentenced two Huichol Indian men to 13 years in prison on Thursday, overturning a ruling that had set them free....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton said the Bush administration moved to block oil drilling in Florida in response to local opposition....


"One evening recently, two very close friends of mine, who happen to be Native American, and I decided to go to the Jai Alai in Newport, R.I....


Michael Tenakhongva, a member of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, graduated from the Air Force Academy this week with a second lieutenant's commission....


The chairman of the Skull Valley Goshute Tribe of Utah won't reveal how much money a group of private utility companies will pay to store up to 44,000 tons of nuclear waste on the reservation....


A bill to ban certain Indian mascots at public schools will be reconsidered next January by the California Assembly....


The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and the state of Montana are resuming water rights talks in July....


A fiber optic project on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming is being held up because some landowners are seeking more money....


Law enforcement in Saskatchewan, Canada, have scheduled an inquest into the shooting death of an Aboriginal man by a police officer....


Animal-rights activists asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to temporarily halt to the whale hunt of the Makah Nation of Washington....


The public can now view a bronze statue of an Indian warrior that will go on top of Oklahoma's state capitol building....


If you haven't entered the "Loop Outta Here" contest sponsored by Washington Post columnist Al Kamen, you still have some time....


he Navajo Nation has received $2.8 million in grants to bring electricity to Navajo families....


A group of scientists is opposing a Department of Interior plan to turn management of the gray wolf to states....


The Te-Moak Tribe of Nevada was joined by ranchers and states' rights advocates in filing a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management on Thursday....


The Alaska Federation of Natives boycotted subsistence talks arranged by Republican lawmakers....


Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb has approved two tribal-state Class III gaming compacts....


A federal program aimed at increasing home ownership on reservations has drawn less than 1,000 applicants in 10 years....

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A group of tribal leaders has endorsed the creation of a new Department of Interior official to handle the trust assets of hundreds of tribes and 300,000 American Indians....

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The Supreme Court meets today to consider taking its second Indian trust case of the term, one which tribal leaders fear could have wide implications....

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Poor Gale Norton....


A member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe has accused a Minnesota creditors of discrimination against American Indians....


California state biologists on Wednesday recommended less stringent protections for a species of salmon fished by tribes....


The National Council of Legislators from Gaming States is meeting in a city known for risk-taking this weekend....


The Peruvian government has been holding public hearings to document two decades of violence brought on by separatist political movements....


A Department of Agriculture inquiry has cleared a controversial nominee of wrongdoing, Secretary Ann Veneman told a Congressional committee on Tuesday....


A federal jury in Montana has awarded a $6 million award to the estate of a man killed by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train....


FBI Director Robert Mueller III for the first time admitted on Wednesday that the September 11 terrorist attacks might have been uncovered had investigators pieced together all the information....


In a politically and environmentally popular move, the Bush administration on Wednesday announced plans to halt drilling in the Everglades and off the shores of Florida....


All members of Wyoming's Congressional delegation are opposed to the sale of federal land to the Mormon Church....


The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation of Kansas has approved an emergency preparedness agreement with a local county....


The tribes on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana are offering tours of a defunct gold mine they are seeking to clean up....


A US Attorney with a background in Indian affairs has been assured that changes to the FBI won't affect investigations on reservations in the Minnesota area....


The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation of North Dakota wants to start up a casino boat on Lake Sakakawea....


A subsidiary of an Alaska Native corporation has signed a $13 million contract for a defense project....


A federal judge has agreed to allow the Bureau of Indian Affairs to delay a final recognition decision on two Connecticut tribes....


New rules the Department of Justice instituted yesterday give free reign for FBI agents to surf Internet web sites....


A federal judge on Tuesday found an Alaska Native elder guilty of one count of stealing tribal funds....


The Te-Moak Tribe of Nevada is considering legal action against the Bureau of Land Management for seizure of $100,000 worth of tribal cattle....


Divers in Montana recovered the body of a Rocky Boy's tribal police officer on Wednesday....


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A White Man says Indians are proud of the name "Redskins," according to John McCaslin of The Washington Times....


The Arizona State University has dropped a policy which discouraged non-Indian enrollment in an class on Navajo history....


"Indian tribes with casinos argue that gambling is the yellow brick road to Native American economic development....


Indian retailers and the Seneca Nation of New York are challenging recent seizures of cigarettes bound for the reservation....

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Besieged with criticism, the court official watching over the Indian trust on Tuesday said he would refer the Bush administration's attempts to hamper his investigation to a federal judge....

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An Idaho court on Tuesday refused to overturn the criminal convictions of three men who claimed protection under a 19th century treaty....

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Tribal leaders (and your lobbyists), you have exactly one extra day to submit your views to the National Indian Gaming Commission on some proposed regulations....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs has delayed its decisions on two Connecticut tribes, The Hartford Courant reports today....


Almost every participant in a candidates forum held in Maine on Tuesday night said they opposed gaming in their state....


Flush with gaming profits, the Oneida Nation of New York has set its sights on the media and entertainment world....


The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law ban on video poker machines....


Authorities in Washington have yet to assign a motive for two men and one teenager who were found stabbed to death outside the Muckleshoot Casino....


The Rhode Island Senate on Tuesday passed a referendum that puts the Narragansett Tribe's casino on the November ballot....


The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether cross-burning is considered free speech....


The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the state of Tennessee to execute a man who claimed he was the victim of bad lawyering....


The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that states cannot be forced to answer to federal agency judicial proceedings unless they wave sovereign immunity....


Authorities in Minnesota have charged a man in the death of a girl found on the White Earth Indian Reservation....


Divers in Montana were searching for the body of a Rocky Boy's tribal police officer who drowned while on a rescue attempt....


Representative Jim Hansen (R-Utah), chairman of the House Resources Committee, added a provision to the $383 billion defense spending bill that would scuttle plans by Skull Valley Goshute Tribe to store nuclear waste on its reservation....


The California Assembly on Tuesday killed a measure that would have banned all Indian mascots in the state....


The state of California is holding high-level talks over the potential listing of coho salmon as an endangered species but tribes haven't been invited, The Los Angeles Times reports....


The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review the state of Nevada's attempt to draw water away from a lake on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation....


A bill to allow Alaska Native veterans of the Vietnam War to receive allotments is being pushed again by Alaska's Congressional delegation....


"So, it's come to this: Trailer-court gambling is on the horizon in downtown Kansas City, Kan. If you've been by Seventh Street and Ann Avenue lately, you know it's a hotbed of activity, with work proceeding at a feverish clip on a "Class II" casino, fashioned from what the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma calls "mobile building units." Nice try on the euphemism....


The Bureau of Land Management plans to auction 157 cattle seized from a Nevada tribe....


A former school official can be sued for actions regarding the Chief Illiniwek mascot of the University of Illinois, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday....


Biodiesel fuels smell like french fries and can make you hungry, according to Deyo Paddyaker, a member of the Comanche Tribe and chief executive of Prime Oil, an Oklahoma firm promoting alternative energy sources....


Dreams inspired Gerry Quotskuyva, a member of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, to take up the carving of katsina dolls....


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Wayne Smith faces an uphill battle to regain his top seat within the Bush administration but if anyone can handle the task, or at least raise a public relations stink, it is his attorney....

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The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma plans to return to federal court this week to seek full recognition of its tribal leadership, buoyed by a recent decision affecting a long-running dispute that has drawn national attention....


He campaigned on a get-tough policy but Colombia's president-elect Álvaro Uribe Vélez might be willing to talk with rebel and paramilitary groups....


The Nebraska Liquor Control Commission is coming under fire for the comments a member made regarding the sale of alcohol to Native Americans....


An independent federal commission in Canada has cited deplorable water conditions on First Nations Reserves in Ontario....


Japan launched an attack last week on the United States and Russia by leading the charge against traditional Native hunting in the face of its own dwindling whaling culture....


Research published today in the Proceedings of the National Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates broccoli can fight stomach ulcers and stomach cancer....


The Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho is losing one of its officials....


President Bush marked Memorial Day at the site of the D-Day Invasion of World War II with a speech linking that global battle with the war on terrorism....


One of the traditional foods of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho is becoming harder to find....


A group of elders of the Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado meets twice a month to advise the tribe on cultural and traditional matters....


Archaeologists have unearthed sites in Florida dating back 7,000 years....


The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee, an advisory board created by federal law, is meeting in Oklahoma this week....


The first national American Indian Chamber of Commerce has been established to promote economic growth of Native-owned businesses....


Bush administration attacks and delays court investigator, Bureau of Indian Affairs official vows fight after being kicked out, Tribes wait for Supreme Court action on major cases, and Native whaling sees international setback....


The chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona attributes a nearly 100 percent increase in income on the reservation to the tribe's casino....


After years of being ignored, Western scientists and governments are paying attention to Inuit warnings, observations and traditions about climate change in the Arctic....


Two Maine tribes completed their walk for sovereignty on Friday....


Curators for the Arizona State Museum are preparing an upcoming exhibit of 360 original paintings by Native artists....


The National Park Service intends to repatriate at least six Native ancestors found in New York....


Opponents of the Seneca Nation's casino agreement with the state of New York are hoping to gain seats in the upcoming tribal election....


A group of 23 towns in Connecticut wants the Bush administration to stop recognizing tribes....


Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb last week urged the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma to hold new tribal elections....


Damion Killsback will receive his doctorate in pharmacy next month, the first member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana to do so....


Three men were found dead outside the Muckleshoot tribal casino in Washington this weekend....


A group of cities in Idaho have dropped a lawsuit seeking to reinstate the position of an Environmental Protection Agency investigator....


A Wyoming senator opposes a proposed purchase of federal land because he worries tribes might do the same....


The Senate Indian Affairs Committee holds the first in a series of oversight hearing on sacred sites next week....


A long tradition of remembering Native warriors and veterans continued today on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana....


Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles continued to involve himself in coalbed methane drilling decisions despite agreeing not to do so....


Wayne Smith, the former deputy to Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb, has asked for federal whistleblower status after being fired from his job....


In an editorial, Representative Frank Wolf (R-Va.) calls on the Bush administration and Congress to put a halt to the spread of gaming, especially in Indian Country....


The Native American Preparatory School in New Mexico graduated its last class before closing due to financial problems....

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