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A unanimous DC Circuit Court of Appeals today threw out contempt charges against Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and former Indian affairs aide Neal McCaleb....

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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 Senate voted late Wednesday to confirm Dr....


The Dole Institute of Politics at Kansas University will host a discussion Sunday featuring Navajo and Comanche Code Talkers....


The Senate Judiciary Committee delayed action on the nomination of William Pryor to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals after Democrats questioned whether he was truthful about fundraising efforts as Alabama's attorney general....


US District Judge Royce Lamberth awarded the children of a woman killed in a 1997 suicide bombing $313 million, saying the government of Iran must pay for behind behind the terrorist attack....


Robert Flint, a psychologist who helped the Minneapolis police department change its stereotypes about American Indians, died June 20....


The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma plans to open a portable Class II bingo hall in September while it finishes work on a permanent facility in New York, The Syracuse Post-Standard reports....


Caleb Johnson was elected vice-chairman of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona on Wednesday by 68 votes....


Even though the Navajo Nation lost $2.74 million at the 2002 Winter Olympics, the tribe reaped many benefits, an official said....


The Gila River Indian Community signed a water sharing agreement with the city of Phoenix....


Two Congressional committees have cut funds to the Mni Wiconi water project for the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Sioux reservations in South Dakota....


The Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is holding a five-day veterinary clinic to help control a growing dog problem....


Indian affairs minister Robert Nault said Phil Fontaine's election as chief of the Assembly of First Nations will bring about positive changes in the federal-tribal relationship....


Representative Richard Pombo (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Resources Committee, today called for a federal probe of the state of Rhode Island's actions against the Narragansett Tribe....


The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 5-2 on Thursday that state courts must give full faith and credit to tribal court judgments....


New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi on Thursday upheld the law that ushered in the largest expansion of gaming in state history....


A federal judge in Canada ordered the federal government to make changes to the Klamath Basin water management plan....


"In many ways the federally recognized Connecticut tribes, particularly the Mashantuckets and Eastern Pequots, owe a large debt to the Narragansetts. For starters, some tribal members, including Mashantucket vice-chairman Kenny Reels, used to be Narragansett, and many more have Narragansett ancestry or relatives....


Paul Bernal, a Taos Pueblo elder who fought for return of the tribe's sacred Blue Lake, died Wednesday of natural causes....


The Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded grants to two Oklahoma tribes to improve library services....


Cecilia Lucero, a teacher at the Bureau of Indian Affairs school on the Laguna Pueblo reservation in New Mexico, has been recognized as one of the top 32 teachers in the country....


Members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona will be allowed to return to their homes today as crews continue to battle a blaze on the reservation....


Some Native American artisans in Gallup, New Mexico, are trying to organize a boycott against Arab merchants whom they accuse of being too rude and flooding the market with fakes....


Since the closure of the Meskwaki Tribe's casino in May, the state of Iowa has seen business grow at gaming facilities....


"Elouise Cobell (Blackfeet) and others went to court in 1996 on behalf of 500,000 Indian account holders....


The Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado remains closed but the park's Puebloan villages and artifacts are said to be safe from fire....

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An Aboriginal leader who pledged to improve tribal relations with Canada's government was elected head of the country's largest First Nations organization on Wednesday....

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Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa, died yesterday at her home in New Jersey....


The Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved legislation to distribute a $142 million trust fund to members of the Western Shoshone Nation....


Racial tensions in Martin, South Dakota, will only get worse unless Indians and non-Indians come together to talk over their differences, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


President Bush plans to nominate Janice Rogers Brown, a conservative Republican who sits on the California Supreme Court, to the D.C....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut operates one of the largest water treatment plants on the East Coast, The Norwich Bulletin reports....


The Bush administration will be starting to clean up toxic mine waste in the Coeur d'Alene Basin in Idaho....


The New Mexico Indian Affairs Committee held a hearing in Gallup on Tuesday to address fake Indian arts and crafts....


The Red Cliff Chippewa Tribe and a memorial foundation are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for the murder of a tribal education director....


Tribal fishermen on the Columbia River are seeing the best chinook salmon run in nearly 40 years....


The Chippewa Cree Tribe of Montana held meetings this to discuss plans for a $229 million water system that will serve the Rocky Boy's Reservation and the local community....


The Jicarilla Apache Nation of New Mexico is building a new health-care center, a joint venture with the Indian Health Service....


The Navajo Nation is trying to help find bone marrow donors for a 2-year-old Navajo boy with a rare blood disease....


A South Dakota man pleaded guilty on Wednesday as part of a voter fraud investigation involving American Indians....


"Politics can, at times, amount to a funny business in Indian country....


Rhode Island attorney general Patrick Lynch accused Governor Donald Carcieri on Wednesday of placing the blame for raid of the Narragansett Tribe's smoke shop on the state police....


A federal jury in Montana convicted a Crow Reservation man for a fatal car crash....


A former judge for the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe of Oklahoma is disputing his removal by the tribal business committee....


The Intertribal Bison Cooperative met with Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal to discuss bison management issues....


Descendants of the Wenatchi Tribe are asking the federal government to fulfill an overdue promise to create a reservation for them in Washington....


The Yurok Tribe of California on Saturday will protest the Department of Interior's water management policies in the Klamath Basin....


Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado is closed while crews try to battle several fires that are threatening ancient Puebloan villages and artifacts....


A federal judge overseeing the Narragansett Tribe's smokeshop case held a closed-door hearing in Rhode Island on Wednesday....


The Kinishba Fire on the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona has grown to 17,700 acres just as crews were pulled off the expanding blaze....


Nambe Pueblo in northern New Mexico has declared a state of emergency due to a fire burning on tribal land....


The Weekly Standard, a conservative publication, argues against letting tribal governments manage national park and wildlife units....


Rhode Island Governor Don Carcieri was wrong to send state troopers to the Narragansett Reservation, The New London Day says in an editorial....


Some members of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe are fighting the tribe's decision to build a house in their neighborhood....

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A high-profile battle over a Rhode Island tribe's tax-free cigarette shop heads to court today as Indian leaders from across the nation reacted critically to the state's raid of the Narragansett Reservation....

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Although a controversial provision to settle the Indian trust fund lawsuit has been axed from the Department of Interior's budget bill, there are still problems ahead for a proposed historical accounting....


The Navajo Nation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs reimposed a ban on fires on the tri-state Navajo Reservation....


The first American Indian woman will join the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C., in October....


A memorial service was held on Tuesday for William Lonnie Revels Sr., a Lumbee leader who fought for fair treatment of Native Americans and for federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina....


The California Fair Political Practices Commission is asking a state appeals court to force the Santa Rosa Indian Community to comply with state election law....


American Indian Movement activist Russell Means isn't off the hook for driving with a suspended license, The Rapid City Journal reports....


The Seattle Post-Intelligencer in an editorial today supports a "common sense" measure that would phase out non-Indian farming in the Klamath Basin....


The state of New York and a town in the Hamptons are trying to stop the Shinnecock Nation from building a casino....


The Suquamish Tribe of Washington is meeting opposition over a proposal to manage a state park where Chief Sealth once lived....


Four First Nations in Saskatchewan have settled tax rebate lawsuits with the provincial government....


Canadian Aboriginal leaders will be voting for chief of the Assembly of First Nations today....


Horses the Bureau of Land Management recently seized from two Western Shoshone sisters in Nevada have been found dead....


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The American Indian Scouting Association is holding its second annual meeting in Montana, drawing an estimated 250 adults and children for the five-day seminar....


Can Oklahoma handle two Indian museums? The Daily Oklahoman in an editorial seems to say no....


The Chinook Nation of Washington is working with the Smithsonian Institution to repatriate 29 tribal ancestors who were taken from their graves in the mid- to late-1800s....


The Cayuga Nation of New York and the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma have asked a federal appeals court to award them $1.7 billion in trespass damages and to evict state and private landowners as part of their 64,000-acre land claim....


A fire on Taos Pueblo land in northern New Mexico was 70 percent contained as of late Tuesday....


Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano declared a state of emergency for the the county affected by a fire on the Fort Apache Reservation....


Members of the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island should have let state police troopers do their job in raiding a tribal smokeshop, The Providence Journal says in an editorial....


Most members of Rhode Island's Congressional delegation called on the courts to resolve a dispute over tax-free cigarettes being sold on the Narragansett Reservation....


Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri (R) on Tuesday ordered two probes into the state police's raid on the smokeshop owned by the Narragansett Tribe....


The new leaders of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation are reworking a land and gaming deal their predecessors announced with the state of New York....

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About two dozen Rhode Island State Troopers forcibly entered the Narragansett Reservation on Monday, arresting seven tribal members, including chief sachem Matthew Thomas and council member Randy Noka, in an escalating feud over a tribally-owned tobacco shop....

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A senior Department of Interior manager who has accused his superiors of retaliation is at the center of an internal report alleging massive destruction of Indian trust documents in New Mexico....


A federal judge sentenced a Navajo Nation man to life in prison for murdering his two young children....


A 70-year-old Navajo elder was killed by a falling branch while he was chopping wood, The Farmington Daily Times reports....


Ferlin Clark has been named interim president of Dine College on the Navajo Nation while the college continues its search for a permanent leader....


Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski won't appeal a ruling that affirmed the Department of Interior's decision to take land into trust for the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians....


A federal judge in Iowa dismissed a lawsuit seeking to declare a plot of land as Indian Country....


The Bush administration is considering eliminating two archaeological centers that serve the National Park Service, The Washington Post reports....


A trial into a July 15, 2001, accident that left a Crow Reservation man dead opened in federal court on Monday....


A judge in South Dakota dismissed traffic-related charges against American Indian Movement activist Russell Means after he failed to show, for the fourth time, to a scheduled court date....


The Gila River Indian Community of Arizona is looking for ways to continue a summer program for kids that emphasizes tribal culture along with reading, writing and math....


California Governor Gray Davis said he would sign a bill increasing protection of sacred sites....


A small memorial was held at the West Point Military Academy in New York on Monday to mark the death of Sgt....


Eight Navajo Nation women who live on land under the jurisdiction of the Hopi Tribe are suing in federal court over their arrest by the tribe....


Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.) has fallen short of his own fundraising goal, The Denver Post reports....


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The Encebado Fire burning on Taos Pueblo land in New Mexico was 65 percent contained as of Monday....


A fire on the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona has forced the evacuation of 5,000 residents and the Indian Health Service....


"It's his words versus those pictures....


"At a Green Airport news conference, [R.I....


The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island said it would assert its rights in federal court in response to the state's raid and shutdown of a tribal tobacco shop on Monday....


A controversial proposal to end the Indian trust fund lawsuit was removed from the Department of Interior's 2004 appropriations bill under an agreement announced on Monday....


The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community of Michigan will hold a referendum this month on a proposed tax agreement with the state....


A food bank that provided free food to low-income families is shutting down after it required Indians to provide extra documentation, The Daily Oklahoma reports....

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In addressing a controversial proposal to settle the Indian trust fund lawsuit, Bush administration officials last week not only denied involvement with the legislation but they also suggested they didn't have to participate in it....

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The fight over the Indian trust fund moved to Congress this week with a hearing on a possible settlement of the long-running Cobell case....

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A family from the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation in South Dakota has documented their ties to famed explorer Meriwether Lewis....


A group of Ute Indians from Utah whose status was terminated by the federal government in 1954 is seeking restoration through a lawsuit....


The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into the safety of casks that will be used to store nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah....


A House subcommittee drafted a forced settlement of the Indian trust in order to "send a little message" to U.S....


The Oklahoma Native American Sports Association hosted the 51st All-Indian men's fast-pitch softball tournament in Oklahoma City over the weekend....


"Codah Gatewood stands apart. Place him among a cultural cornucopia of youths -- white, black, Asian, Hispanic or Native -- and he remains distinctive. While most of us dream of great personal accomplishments, he set a goal, then soared to meet it. He graduated with a 4.0 grade-point average this spring from Lincoln High School....


Basketball pros from throughout Indian Country took part in the National Basketball Association's national tournament....


Ten teams participated in the horse relay racing event at the 52nd annual North American Indian Days held this past weekend in Montana....


The 100 faculty and staff members of Si Tanka University in South Dakota won't be paid for the rest of the summer, according to news accounts....


Police in Alaska are investigating the beating and rape of a 17-year-old girl as a hate crime....


Sexually transmitted diseases are diagnosed among Native Americans in South Dakota at a rate higher than the rest of the population, according to the South Dakota Department of Health....


Arctic Slope Regional Corp., an Alaska Native regional corporation, has entered into a "mentoring" deal with an oil and gas company....


The Pelican Lake First Nation of Saskatchewan, Canada, is trying to determine why its bison herd is sick and dying....


If all goes as planned, two major Oklahoma cities will have centers dedicated to Indian culture....


Leaders of New Mexico's Pueblo governments met with the outgoing president of Spain in New Mexico on Saturday....


Cinda Hughes, a member of the Kiowa Tribe, was reluctant to compete in the Ms Wheelchair Oklahoma contest....


An Army soldier pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life for the murder of a fellow soldier who was Cheyenne and Navajo....


Some members of Congress are considering a bill that would shift trust fund management to the Department of Interior or create a separate commission to handle trust claims, The Denver Post reports....


"You hike the giant slab now known as Piestewa Peak with the document folded in quarters in the back pocket of your shorts....


Rhode Island state troopers raided a smokeshop owned by the Narragansett Tribe today, arresting chief sachem Matthew Thomas and other tribal members, according to news reports....


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Crews have contained 65 percent of a fire burning on Taos Pueblo land in northern New Mexico....

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