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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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American Indians will have to wait at least 10 years to receive an historical account of their funds, according to a Bush administration plan released on Wednesday....

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A small group of about 30 Native Hawaiians and Hawaiian supporters held a solemn protest march on Independence Day in Boston, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the American Revolution....

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Nearly 300 Navajo tribal members on Tuesday voiced overwhelming support for a lawsuit seeking to bring accountability to the management of their trust funds....

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A casino company with close ties to the $10 billion Indian gaming industry launched a last-ditch effort on Tuesday to speed up resolution of a dispute that has sent investors fleeing....


Navajo Nation official will address drought and wildlife concerns at a two-day symposium next week....


Solicitor General Ted Olson has taken an unusual role in coordinating a board array of federal cases affecting the war on terrorism....


"Indian gaming provides jobs and many other opportunities for tribal members....


"The comments of each of the 2nd District's elected federal officials regarding the recent BIA recognition of an Indian tribe in North Stonington would be laughable if the potential consequences to the region were not so dire....


State and local officials in Connecticut met on Tuesday to discuss an appeal of the federal recognition of the Eastern Pequot Tribe....


Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas has a new museum and is planning to use the Internet to bring its collections to life....


Rural schools in Alaska can be forced under President Bush's education reform act to transport students from rural villages to far away schools....


The Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma is trying to prevent a tribal member from passing herself off as principal chief....


Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne signs an agreement today affirming tribal sovereignty....


The Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma is suing the state of Missouri, alleging disturbance of burial grounds....


The Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma has purchased a 4,300-acre ranch, doubling its land holdings....


Army forces expecting to defeat Plains Indian tribes in 1876 found out right away how wrong they were....


Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb will meet with Navajo Nation officials and tribal members today....


A six-year-old girl whose father is charged with her murder was the subject of a tribal investigation into foster care abuse, The Daily Oklahoman reports today....


"In Washington, I stay apprised of Connecticut news through the Internet and online newspapers....


A reporter for the Fort Peck tribal newspaper in Montana drowned in the Missouri River....


Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb: "The economy of Arizona's White Mountain Apache Indian tribe is directly linked to the harvest of timber. Sadly, the fires that have swept across Arizona now imperil this economy....


A federal grand jury in Arizona indicted an Apache tribal member on Tuesday for allegedly starting a fire that has strained racial tensions....


Authorities have yet to determine the cause of death for a Kansas man who was on a vision quest....

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The Department of Interior is coming under fire for accusing a court investigator who has uncovered Indian trust fund mismanagement of bias....

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Indianz.Com is declaring its independence from vague warnings of unsubstantiated terrorist chatter and is going on vacation this July 4 weekend! The holiday will extend to July 9, so those readers needing their daily Indian news fix will have to hold tight....

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The Bush administration is cutting cleanup funds for one of the worst toxic waste sites in the nation, according to a document made public on Monday, an action affecting members of an Oklahoma tribe....


Voters of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma elected council members on Saturday....


A federal judge in New York on Monday ruled the federal death penalty unconstitutional....


A group of African-American farmers took over a Department of Agriculture office in Tennessee on Monday to protest inaction over delayed loan applications....


An anti-casino group in Nebraska plans to fight a proposed ballot initiative to expand gaming....


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The public has until October 1 to comment on the federal recognition petitions of two Nipmuc tribes in Massachusetts....


The New London Day of Connecticut discloses that the writer of a letter published in today's paper is the leader of an anti-Indian and anti-treaty rights group....


The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today criticizes the state of South Dakota and the U.S....


"Even though I have lived in many parts of this country, I believed that the northern Plains was the "real" Indian country after all, North Dakota is my home....


Subsistence and sport fishermen are enjoying the best run of Western Alaska king and chum salmon in years....


Peru's disgraced former intelligence minister, Vladimiro Montesinos, was sentenced to more than nine years in prison and fined $2.8 million on Monday....


Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday threatened to have Congress resolve the Oneida Nation land claim if the sides can't agree on a settlement....


Efforts to restore the sturgeon to the Great Lakes has helped revive a tradition of the Menominee Nation of Wisconsin....


The FBI continues to investigate the death of a tribal police officer on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana....


A non-profit group plans to document 12 sites where Sioux warriors battled Army forces after the historic 1876 Battle at Little Bighorn....


Congressional and environmental critics on Monday accused the Bush administration of lying about its commitment to cleanup toxic waste sites across the nation....


Parts of Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado are closed due to threat of fire....


White Mountain Apache tribal members in Arizona are questioning why a white woman implicated in one of the largest fires in state history remains free....


National Indian Gaming Commission Chairman Montie Deer asked a federal judge on Monday to delay court-ordered settlement talks over a controversial casino game....


Another deadline for one of Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's promises has come and gone....


Proposed Indian Offenses Court The Bureau of Indian Affairs seeks public comment on a final rule to create a Courts of Indian Offenses for the Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico....


The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board on Monday held the first of three final hearings into a proposed nuclear waste facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation....

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A Bureau of Indian Affairs contract firefighter was indicted on federal charges this weekend for allegedly starting a blaze which has blossomed into the worst fire in Arizona's history....

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A federal judge on Friday extended a ban on construction work at a South Dakota recreation site, citing the federal government's failure to comply with a law designed to protect ancestral tribal remains....

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Bureau of Indian Affairs recognizes Eastern Pequot Tribe, Congress urges trust fund task force to move on solutions, outgoing Indian gaming regulators leave legacy, and Supreme Court finishes up term....


A member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma plans to run for Congress now that a close political friend is retiring....


he Bureau of Land Management in September plans to release an environmental impact statement affecting drilling at a site in Wyoming known for its unusual terrain, endangered species and sacred sites....


The Bush administration is cutting funds to 33 toxic waste sites and will eventually shift the cost of the Superfund program to taxpayers....


The word "Oriental" can no longer be used in statutes, codes, rules and regulations in Washington....


Connecticut's two federally recognized tribes have reduced contributions to political campaigns, The Norwich Bulletin reports....


In addition to state and local officials and lawmakers in Connecticut, U.S. Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Representative Rob Simmons (R-Conn.) are among those who can't figure out how the Eastern Pequot Tribe got recognized....


White Mountain Apache tribal chairman Dallas Massey and residents of the Arizona reservation expressed shock over charges brought in the massive Rodeo-Chediski Fire....


"Normally, I wouldn't be attending any event on a California reservation never had a reason to, never thought about it nor did I feel any connection to the land or people....


"So, like I was saying, we've moved again....


Money for a new federal court house in Wisconsin is being sought....


The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is holding final hearings on a proposed nuclear waste dump on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah....


State and local officials in New York are trying to stop the Oneida Nation from offering cheap cigarettes to smokers....


The Heart of America Indian Center has opened its doors at a new location in Kansas City, Kansas....


The US Marines and Air Force have launched "Operation Footprint," an effort to bring more homes to the Navajo Nation....


Windtalkers, the flop which has contributed to the ouster of an MGM executive, failed because it was a story about white men instead of the Navajo Code Talkers, a woman researched the soldiers writes in an opinion today....


Thanks to an ambitious hatchery program, red salmon have returned to the village of Nanwalek in Alaska....


Twenty years ago, the Confederated Umatilla Tribes of Washington launched a risky scheme to get more water and money for dying salmon runs....


Fire setting was a part of tribal life as recently as this century, according to historians and anthropologists....


A petition to expand gambling in Nebraska is due to be filed with the state this week....


Attorneys representing 300,000 American Indian beneficiaries to the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust asked a federal judge to shutdown certain computer systems at the Department of Interior....


The ABC News program Nightline will present a report tonight on the Apache fire crews fighting the Rodeo-Chedeski Fire....


Federal Acknowledgment of the Historical Eastern Pequot Tribe The Bureau of Indian Affairs announces its decision to acknowledge the historical Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut....


An historic Shawnee Nation dollar coin has been reissued featuring the bust of Chief Tecumseh....

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