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Outgoing political appointees of the Clinton administration last week scrapped controversial casino game procedures, a move condemned by the nation's top Indian gaming regulator as potentially illegal....

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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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A senior government official, who swore in court declarations that he is in charge of Indian trust, and lawmakers worried about the cost of a lawsuit that has exposed government corruption came under fire on Thursday for attempts to restrict the Department of Interior's obligations to Indian Country....


Water shortages in the Klamath Basin of Oregon and California are affecting fish considered vital to area tribes....


A Securities and Exchange Commission investigation conducted during the 1990s failed to clear President Bush of wrongdoing for a stock deal, The Washington Post reports today....


Prices for bison have dropped to $300 a head and below, down from a high of $3,000 a few years ago....


A federal magistrate this week allowed a group of Native Hawaiians to intervene in a lawsuit challenging a Native Hawaiian land program....


The Blackfeet tribal council in Montana held an inauguration ceremony Thursday....


The Navajo Nation's presidential primary has been suspended over a dispute involving the legitimacy of a candidate....


An $800 million funding deal by the Bush administration is a ruse to limit responsibilities to clean up nuclear waste in Washington, critics charged on Thursday....


Tribal members on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming plan to create an irrigation or conservation district to set their own water rights rules....


A student at SiTanka Huron University in South Dakota pleaded guilty on Thursday to intentional exposure of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS....


The 2002 North American Indigenous Games takes place in Winnipeg, Canada, this month....


A New Mexico state official on Thursday said he might ask a federal court to Pojoaque Pueblo's water usage....


Tribal leaders in Kansas say the state's policy towards school mascots is demeaning and offensive....


A fire on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana has consumed between 300 and 600 acres....


A white woman who admitted starting part of the fire that burned 60 percent of the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona says she can't be blamed for the worst blaze in state history....


The Hill, a Congressional media source, published a special section on the gaming industry this week....


The American Red Cross is seeking Native American and other minority donors in Arizona for a blood drive....


The Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma has raised concerns about a proposal for a Greek Orthodox monastery near the burial site of Chiricahua Apache leader Cochise....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs today publishes its list of tribes eligible to receive services, otherwise known as those with federal recognition....


Winnebago Tribe officials in Nebraska say a federal judge's preliminary injunction proves the state of Kansas is wrong to tax inter-tribal gasoline transactions....


The Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Idaho has dropped a controversial component of its smoke management plan....


The Oneida Nation of New York has sued a casino game manufacturer that is involved in another lawsuit over a controversial machine....


A Democratic hopeful for Nebraska attorney general is suggesting the Oglala Lakota Tribe have jurisdiction over the border town of Whiteclay....


The Department of Interior has denied involvement in a House bill that restricts action on the Indian trust fund even though the legislation contains provisions requested by Deputy Secretary J....


The Indian trust fund debacle is the focus of two television reports....


The Seattle Times in an editorial today praises a local school board for eliminating its Indian mascot....

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A non-Indian couple can sue the Bureau of Indian Affairs for a water system that fell into disrepair, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday....

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What do you do when your stock is in the dumps, your tribal clients are facing $20,000 in daily fines and your former accountant is in legal trouble? If you answered, "Hire Redneck Comedian Jeff Foxworthy," then you just might be an executive for Multimedia Games Inc of Texas....

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American Indians and Alaska Natives can expect tougher lives, high rates of chronic disease and lack of adequate care as they grow older, according to a new nationwide study....


World Series-winning pitcher Miguel Batista of the Arizona Diamondbacks visited with Navajo youth on Wednesday....


Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) has put a hold on all presidential nominees in order to force the White House to appoint a campaign finance regulator to the Federal Election Commission....


During the 1980s, President Bush took loans from a company while a member of its board of directors, a practice he condemned this week as he sought to curb corporate fraud....


Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman will meet with African-American farmers and review alleged practices of loan discrimination....


Bolivian indigenous leader Evo Morales barely edged out a competitor to emerge as a finalist in the nation's presidential election....


"On June 12, a two-page letter from [U.S....


Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed about 25 mummies near Lima....


Research published in today's issue of Nature documents the discovery of a 7 million-year-old skull, believed by researchers to be the oldest human ancestor ever found....


Two digital divide programs worth $45 million in funds are being eliminated by the Bush administration....


The Army Corps of Engineers told a Senate subcommittee on Wednesday that it will finalize a controversial Missouri River management plan by October....


A coalition of Native artists representing 38 tribes is proposing a series of multicultural murals in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma....


A new film about the lives of four Native Americans is being shot on location in Oklahoma....


An Alaska Native village corporation has filed a $27 million damages lawsuit for a 2001 fire....


The Bush administration has dropped demands to exempt U.S....


The National Park Service today announces a number of inventories of Native American human remains and associated funerary objects and notices of intents to repatriate certain items....


A blessing ceremony was held Wednesday for the Wakpa Sica Reconciliation Place in South Dakota....


The Eastern Pequot Tribe and the Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Tribe, both of Connecticut, have been working to form a joint government now that they have been recognized as one historic tribe....


The Indian trust fund monitor today released a report on the Department of Interior's historical accounting project....


Daryl White has been removed as the Department of Interior's chief information officer, Federal Computer Week reports....


Tribal leaders in Montana and Wyoming were skeptical about efforts to reorganize the Department of Interior....


The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska has won another round in its battle against the state of Kansas....


A Montana county being represented by a conservative legal organization has appealed a Native voting rights case....


A fraud case involving Bureau of Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service employees in Montana is expected to expand to other locales, The Billings Gazette reports today....


Members of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Wednesday suggested ways to combat health problems affecting Native elders....


Nebraska farm interests are opposing a request by the Winnebago Tribe to regulate agricultural chemical use on the reservation....


The White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona, devastated by a recent fire, will receive $1 million donation, thanks to a fellow tribe....


A school board in Washington voted unanimously on Wednesday to end the use of Indian mascots in Seattle....


The Indian trust fund will be the focus of a new ABC program scheduled to air Friday night....

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The Senate on Tuesday approved a plan to store up to 77,000 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste on traditional Western Shoshone land in Nevada....


"The political endorsement of Indian casinos and the maintenance of a money stream for political parties and for legislative largess run deep. Witness the recent Mohegan Sun gala where former President Clinton and U.S....


The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma has secured federal funding for a number of projects....


The elders council of the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is facing a lawsuit over accusations of improperly approved membership applications....


Two Mi'kmaq fishermen from the Burnt Church First Nation of New Brunswick, Canada, were fined $2,000 each and given three months probation for catching lobster out of season....


A Senate subcommittee today is holding a hearing on a proposed management plan for the Missouri River....


A federal judge has halted the forced relocation of homeowners within the Everglades....


The Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma has filed a lawsuit to claim an old Army site in Kansas....


The Senate Indian Affairs Committee was holding a hearing today on issues affecting the health care of elderly Native Americans....


An Alaska fisherman faces charges for allegedly selling his subsistence catch....


Oklahoma's Indian population is being urged to get screened and tested for diabetes....


Two Washington tribes rejected for federal recognition by the Bureau of Indian Affairs have found allies in Congress....


The Crow Tribe of Montana is receiving a $100,000 federal grant to cleanup an old industrial waste site....


Two elderly Northern Cheyenne tribal members are alive and well after going missing during a cross-country trip....


Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham will help the state of Utah kill a proposed nuclear waste dump on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, The Salt Lake Tribune reports....


Approval of the Yucca Mountain nuclear dump site has brought alarm to the Walker River Paiute Tribe of Nevada....


The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida arrested a county court official for trying to subpoena tribal-related documents as part of a civil lawsuit....


For years, the U'wa Nation of Colombia fought plans by a U.S....

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Neal McCaleb was quietly sworn in last week to one of the toughest jobs in federal government: running the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

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Fire rages on Arizona reservation as tribal member indicted for starting blaze, Bush administration releases historical accounting plan, and casino company feels negative bite of Indian gaming regulators....

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Tribal justice systems throughout Indian Country have been awarded key funding that will enable them to continue the fight against drug and alcohol abuse....

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The descendants of the first tribe to greet explorers Lewis and Clark to the Pacific Northwest do not deserve federal recognition, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb announced on Friday....


President Bush signed an executive order last Wednesday to support tribal colleges....


Frustrated with answers given by federal officials, Elouise Cobell, former treasurer for the Blackfeet Nation of Montana, filed a class action suit to seek an accounting of the Indian trust fund....


Two elders of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana last seen in Colorado are the subject of a joint tribal-local police search....


Smokers in New York are increasingly turning to the state's reservations to buy tax-free cigarettes....


The Navajo Nation is in the second phase of a program to improve handling of mineral resources....


The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island has lost its gaming partner again. Boyd Gaming withdrew from a $500 million casino proposal in response to delays by the State Legislature....