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The federal government doesn't have a trust responsibility to "maximize" oil and gas revenues for Indian beneficiaries, a federal judge ruled last month....

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The Bush administration is appealing a case to the Supreme Court that tribal leaders say is an important test of their sovereign rights....


An accountant for the Navajo Nation has gone missing, along with $39,000 in tribal dollars intended for a chapter government, The Farmington Daily Times reports....


The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has asked the state of Wisconsin to make tribal casino audits public....


The Rhode Island Legislature wrapped up work on Wednesday without approving a bill to put a casino before voters....


A budget provision in the new Wisconsin budget overrides the revenue-sharing provisions of the Oneida Nation's tax agreement....


The Navajo Nation Supreme Court cleared a mining company of violating the tribe's Navajo preference act....


A Montana district judge on Wednesday invalidated a law that stripped a state commission of its power to draw the state's legislative districts....


An 18-year-old teen died Wednesday after a hit and run accident on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota....


July 2 was the 140th anniversary of the Fort Bridger Treaty, signed by Shoshone Chief Washakie and the U.S....


The Confederated Umatilla Tribes of Oregon have rounded up a bison herd that was set loose on the reservation....


A group of 21 investors has contributed $10.5 million to a casino project in California, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports....


The state of Alaska will open millions of acres of state and Alaska Native corporation lands around Bristol Bay to exploration....


A commercial ship ran aground in Alaska's Kachemak Bay last week, destroying the salmon fishery for two Native villages....


Special trustee Ross Swimmer is finally off the stand in the Cobell trust fund trial, having endured six days of testimony in federal court in Washington, DC. Swimmer first went before U.S....


Members of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana held a Victory Dance Celebration for Lomar Wandering Medicine, a U.S....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut has donated more than $40,000 to a local high school....


One faction of the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa has agreed to the creation of an election board....


National Indian Gaming Commission Chairman Phil Hogen spoke at an Indian gaming conference on the Flathead Reservation in Montana on Wednesday....


The Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historic Names voted Wednesday to rename a peak in honor of Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq....


The Department of Interior is continuing talks with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes over a proposed takeover of the National Bison Range....

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Members of New Mexico's Congressional delegation urged the Bush administration on Tuesday to temporarily stop work on a massive coal mine, citing new evidence that suggests a sacred site may be damaged....

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Failing to account for mismanagement of the Indian trust is a breach of the federal government's responsibilities, special trustee Ross Swimmer said on Tuesday....


Two Navajo Nation men face charges in connection with a death on the reservation that authorities say is linked to alcohol....


A Navajo political action group is trying to increase Navajo representation on a county board in Arizona....


A fund-raising concert for the American Indian Cultural Festival in New Mexico didn't go off as planned and people involved are blaming the promoter....


Tesuque Pueblo in New Mexico held its first pow-wow this past weekend....


After a two-year hiatus, Nambé Pueblo in New Mexico is bringing back its July 4 celebration....


Thanks to some help from some powerful allies, Santa Fe Indian School will see some positive improvements, The Santa Fe New Mexican says in an editorial....


Two Indian students in Wisconsin say they were the target of racist slurs for opposing their school's Chieftain logo....


Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry (D) said he supports a $45 million plan to clean up the Tar Creek Superfund site but not a buyout for local residents....


The Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes on the Fort Peck Reservation have extended their cross-deputization agreement....


The state of New Mexico and the Mescalero Apache Nation are urging a federal judge to make a ruling on a three-year-old gaming compact case....


The Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is breaking ground tomorrow on a new health care center to replace an aging Indian Health Service facility....


The chairman of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina gave the State of the Tribe address on Tuesday....


The Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians has asked a state judge to halt work at a site where tribal ancestors were recently discovered....


A federal judge in New Mexico rejected the state's motion for a preliminary junction against Pojoaque Pueblo's water use....


A group calling itself the Little Shell Pembina Band of North America has been issuing driver's licenses, vehicle registration and insurance coverage to drivers....


A federal judge on Tuesday upheld a land-into-trust decision for the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw of Oregon....


Alaska law enforcement shut down a Class II pull-tab parlor operated by the Barrow tribal government....


Three men who stole machine guns, body armor and ammunition from a Bureau of Indian Affairs building in Oklahoma have pleaded guilty....


The Democrat Party's strategy to make the environment an issue for voters includes criticism of Deputy Interior Secretary J....


A teenage member of the Hualapai Tribe of Arizona was shot to death by a tribal police officer....


The chief sachem of the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island said he wasn't optimistic that a bill to put a casino before voters will clear the State Legislature....

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The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust suggested on Tuesday that the Bush administration was playing word games in order to avoid fulfilling its responsibilities to account holders....

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On the stand for his fourth day of testimony in the Cobell trial, special trustee Ross Swimmer on Monday admitted that none of the trust reform initiatives he proposed during the Reagan administration were successful....


The Oklahoma City Indian Clinic is holding a 10-week clinic to teach Indian youth about healthy eating....


The Shinnecock Nation of New York broke ground on a casino in the Hamptons despite a restraining order filed against tribal leaders by the state attorney general....


Two California tribes are asking a federal appeals court to reinstate their gaming compact lawsuit....


The Department of Defense has wrapped up its investigation of the use of chemical or biological agents on service members....


The state of Florida ordered a company that sells insurance to tribal members to stop doing business because it doesn't have a license....


Sealaska, an Alaska Native regional corporation, has invested $3.75 million in a blood plasma company....


The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma is seeking federal regulatory approval to acquire a bank....


The Wisconsin Supreme Court has assigned a reserve judge to determine whether it will hear a challenge to a new Indian gaming compact or send the dispute to a lower court....


The former housing director for the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community is the target of a federal embezzling probe, the Associated Press reports....


Donna Wendzillo and her family share a common interest in running the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska....


The Oneida Nation of Wisconsin is asking Governor Jim Doyle (D) to reject several provisions of the state's budget....


A bronze statute to Sacajawea / Sacagawea / Sakakawea, the Indian woman who joined the Lewis and Clark expedition, was dedicated on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming last Thursday....


Zuni Pueblo has filed comments with the state of New Mexico, protesting the drilling of monitoring water wells near the sacred Zuni Lake....


The Eastern Shoshone Tribe of Wyoming hosted a reunion last week for all Shoshone-speaking tribes, drawing attendants from as far away as Mexico for cultural activities....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs is holding three meetings to discuss the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act for Indian Country....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs on Monday published notice of a land-into-trust acquisition for the Elk Valley Rancheria of California....


A Georgia man charged with molesting children asked a federal judge on Monday to be handed over to the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, claiming he is chief of the Cherokee group....


The Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho is holding a ceremony today for a new emergency shelter for abused and neglected children....

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The head of the House panel with jurisdiction over Indian affairs is calling for the defeat of legislation that would allow the Bush administration to settle trust fund accounts with little consultation of tribes or individual beneficiaries....

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The Bush administration called its final witness in the Indian trust fund trial this week, putting special trustee Ross Swimmer in the hot seat once again....


The Canadian government is negotiating a settlement with the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation to compensate the band for an 18th century land deal....


"In the case of Indian tribes, the costs of federal water development are forgiven under the conventional wisdom that all Indians are poor, as indeed many of them are....


"Sherman Alexie has just compiled a bookful of keepers, "Ten Little Indians," most if not all of them about Spokane Indians around Washington....


A student in Hawaii is suing to gain entry into the Kamehameha Schools, alleging he was denied admission because he is not Native Hawaiian....


The White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona is suing the non-Indian woman who started part of last year's devastating Rodeo-Chediski Fire, which destroyed more than half of the reservation....


Tribes in Montana have donated money for an Independence Day celebration in Havre that will feature a pow-wow, an arts and crafts show and a handgame tournament....


The Bureau of Land Management has renamed the Squaw Leap Management Area, a recreation area in California, as the San Joaquin River Gorge....


About three dozen families on the Lummi Reservation in Washington won't lose their water service for now....


"Today's column comes to you directly from Uncle Johnny's "Mother Nature Strikes Back" files....


The Na'al Kid Summer Film Festival was held at San Juan College in New Mexico over the weekend....


The Red Lake Nation of Minnesota is combating alcohol and drug abuse through a prevention program that includes a focus on tribal culture....


In its 37 years of existence, Oklahomans for Indian Opportunity has developed countless programs to serve the Indian community in Oklahoma....


Vivian Juan-Saunders was sworn in Friday as the first woman leader of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona....


The National Park Service will hold three public meetings July 8-10 to discuss a proposed land swap with Eastern Band of Cherokees of North Carolina....


US District Judge Royce Lamberth on Friday issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Interior after it refused to allow the special master in the Cobell case to test Indian trust fund computer systems....


On Friday, tribal leaders in Montana and Wyoming walked out on Department of Interior officials who were presenting the reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the expansion of the Office of Special Trustee....


"I am Sahnish (Arikara) and Dakota/Lakota....


The owner of a proposed mine in Wisconsin wants to sell a site where more than 500 Chippewa and Sioux warriors are buried to two tribes....

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