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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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Carrie Dann has spent most of her adult life fighting a government that denies her rights exist....

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The leaders of two neighboring tribes clashed at a bitter Senate hearing on Thursday, the latest chapter in a century-old dispute over land, natural resource and other rights in northern California....


Nebraska State Senator DiAnna Schimek introduced a constitutional amendment on Thursday to allow Indian gaming....


A fire in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado continues to grow....


Pope John Paul II wrapped up his three-country, 11-day trip to the Americas on Thursday....


Connecticut Citizens Against Casinos, an anti-casino group, is asking citizens to tell their government representatives to say no to tribal casinos....


Adam Beach stars in "Skinwalkers," a Robert Redford project based on author Tony Hillerman's Navajo detective sagas....


One General Accounting Office study on federal recognition wasn't enough for one Connecticut paper....


The Minnesota Department of Health estimates that more than 9 percent of Native American children are uninsured....


A federal judge has denied American Indian Movement activist and actor Russell Means a spot on New Mexico's ballot for governor....


A group of northern California casino card clubs and religious charities are appealing a ruling which upheld the validity of tribal gaming agreements....


Tribal elections are always filled with drama so it should be fitting that the one for the Navajo Nation, the largest tribe, has lots of it....


The chief executive of Cook Inlet Region Inc., an Alaska Native regional corporation, was given a contract extension on Thursday despite some opposition....


The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on Thursday held a hearing on issues facing Native youth....


The White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona said it will sue a white woman who started a fire on the Fort Apache Reservation....


Two Pueblos in northern New Mexico would be restored almost 4,500 acres of federal land under a bill under consideration in Congress....


The Sioux Falls Leader in an editorial today praises a bill that seeks to increase protection of sacred sites....


A man claiming to be a Mohegan chief plans to fight a $19,000 fine imposed by a Connecticut city....


The state of Oklahoma has enlisted the University of Oklahoma to find out if huge piles of mine waste can be safely used for highway construction....


The Department of Interior won't extend a public comment period affecting an Alaska oil pipeline....


The Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribe of Minnesota is seeking federal recognition....


The Burnt Church First Nation of New Brunswick has finalized a fishing agreement with the Canadian government....

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Legislation to settle a long-standing New Mexico tribal land dispute cleared a key Senate committee on Wednesday, and its chief sponsors hoped for final passage this year....

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A federal judge this week agreed to strike down a decades-old Bureau of Indian Affairs decision to terminate separate relations with the Delaware Tribe of eastern Oklahoma....

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While in Washington, D.C., this week, Northern Cheyenne President Geri Small received a warm welcome by one of her most well-known constituents on Tuesday....


Bureau of Indian Affairs employee Brian Neil Klinekole pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to setting fires in southern New Mexico....


Pacific Northwest tribes and their members are struggling with a new federal study which finds that consuming large amounts of fish can lead to cancer and other health problems....


A Senate subcommittee held a hearing on the Superfund program on Wednesday....


A fire burning in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado burned more than 2,400 acres as of Wednesday....


A group claiming sovereign tribal status has been told to pay $19,000 in fines for trying to ignore the authority of a Connecticut city....


The 50th annual Lincoln Indian Club Pow-wow takes place this weekend in Lincoln, Nebraska....


Doyon Ltd., an Alaska Native regional corporation, has won a concessionaire contract for Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska....


Pope John Paul II canonized the first Indian saint during an Aztec-inspired Mass in Mexico on Wednesday....


Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien unexpectedly stopped at the 2002 North American Indigenous Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Wednesday....


The ninth annual Association of Interior Native Educators conference began in Alaska on Wednesday....


The Crow Tribe is testing out a new curriculum at its Apsa'alooke Warrior Youth Camp this summer....


Seven Oklahoma tribes are upset that the Indian Health Service hasn't acted on their request to fire a hospital administrator....


The tribes on the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana are suing to enforce cleanup of abandoned mines....


The South Dakota Legislature's State-Tribal Relations Committee plans to study Native Americans in the state prison system....


Tom Slonaker, the Department of Interior's former top Indian trust official, continues to speak out about his forced resignation....


A Senate subcommittee on Wednesday held a hearing on a bill to build a water system affecting the Rocky Boy's Reservation and other communities in Montana....


Senators Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) are seeking to attach a rider to a spending bill that would affect the recognition of Indian tribes, The Norwich Bulletin says in an editorial today....


Sandia Pueblo Governor Stuwart Paisano wants the Senate to consider changing a bill to settle a claim to 10,000 acres in the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico....


The United States has violated the human rights of two Western Shoshone sisters, a preliminary report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has found....


White House officials told Rob....


The Mille Lacs Ojibwe Tribe of Minnesota opened its Language and Cultural Center two years ago but tribal officials say not enough people are participating....

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Reaction to Special Trustee Tom Slonaker's departure from the Department of Interior was mixed on Tuesday, an indication of a volatile and stymied role he played during his two years of federal service....

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Indian Country advocates on Tuesday discouraged tribal leaders from moving too quickly on efforts to reform the broken trust fund, citing lack of agreement with federal officials and a crunch for time....

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The federal government's top Indian trust reform official quit the Bush administration on Tuesday, the culmination of a growing debacle that reaches all the way to the White House....


The Delaware Tribe of Oklahoma wants its own sovereignty restored....


Allegations of misuse of funds and and questions over leadership are affecting the dealings of a New Mexico non-profit with ties to the Navajo Nation....


A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced man from the Crow Reservation to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release for a drunk-driving accident....


Two police detectives in Connecticut are appealing a ruling that dismissed their lawsuit against the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation....


Pope John Paul II was in Guatemala on Tuesday to canonize the country's first saint and urge justice and respect for Mayan Indians who make up the majority of the population but are at the bottom of the social and economic ladder....


The Navajo Nation has awarded 64 high school graduates with college scholarship money....


A dispute over a tribal business deal has spurred a member of the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut to seek the ouster of two top officials, The New London Day reports....


The Burnt Church First Nation of New Brunswick might soon sign a fisheries agreement with the Canadian government....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is in the preliminary stages of an economic development partnership with another tribe, The Norwich Bulletin reports today....


The Navajo Nation Supreme Court last week ruled that Ed Begay, the tribe's top lawmakers, was singled out and unfairly disqualified from the presidential primary....


The Navajo Nation Supreme Court last week rescheduled the tribe's presidential primary to September 10....


A fire in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado has consumed more than 2,000 acres....


The Environmental Protection Agency this week is releasing a study that concludes that Columbia River tribes in the Pacific Northwest face a high risk for cancer and other diseases due to toxic pollutants in fish....


Oglala Lakota tribal member Ed McGaa is facing a challenge from his own Green Party over his candidacy for U.S....


A Department of Interior spokesperson would not respond to claims of high-level intimidation by an ousted official, the Associated Press reports....


"Well, I suppose I back Indian self-reliance as much as the next person -- God knows these people have had it rough over the years....


Tribal gaming should be limited to tribal lands -- even if they didn't exist two years ago -- The San Francisco Chronicle says in an editorial today....


The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today will mark up a bill to settle the land claims of Sandia Pueblo in New Mexico....


A federal judge on Tuesday sided with a Utah tribe and private utility companies seeking to store up to 44,000 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation....


When tribes in Arizona need help navigating the Indian health care system, they go to Michael Allison, the state's Native American liaison for the Arizona Department of Health Services....


Two Navajo students are participating in a health care seminar aimed at rural students in Arizona....


"Someone's history within Oklahoma has been ignored....


The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld tough environmental requirements for a mine being opposed by an Alaska Native village....


Land owned by the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma is not Indian Country, a federal judge ruled on Monday....

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Special Trustee Tom Slonaker, the federal government's top Indian trust official, resigned from the Bush administration today....

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The Quinault Nation of Washington is spearheading an historic event this year, the first-ever American Indian and Alaska Native Sovereignty Run....

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Casino compacts with more than 60 California tribes do not violate the US Constitution, a federal judge ruled on Monday....


Three First Nations in the Yukon Territory on Monday signed a forest management agreement with the Canadian government....


The St Regis Mohawk Tribe won't open its casino in the Catskills region of New York until 2005 at the earlier, Steve Israel reports today....


Pope John Paul II is in Guatemala today to canonize the country's first saint, an advocate for Mayan Indians....


Representative Brad Carson (D-Okla.) has introduced a bill to help rural law enforcement fight methamphetamine....


Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado was closed on Monday in response to several wildfires....


"When you live on the wet, eastern side of the state and drive west, the extreme drought that people are experiencing in western North Dakota and South Dakota is shocking. I went camping in that area for five days last week....


Nebraska Democrats are meeting this weekend for to choose a state chairman and reconsider its stance on gaming....


The Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma has fired two of its three housing commissioners amid a federal investigation....


"Fired from jobs they loved by an administrator and directors they despised, three physicians are planning to open a new clinic in the Phillips neighborhood of south Minneapolis in September....


Casino industry experts believe California's tribes could bring in $4 billion a year, The Los Angeles Times reports....


The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday announced it won't rehear a case challenging the sovereign immunity of a California tribe....


A federal judge on Monday upheld a controversial tribal land acquisition authorized by President Bill Clinton in one of his final acts in the White House....


President Bush on Tuesday signed into law stricter corporate accountability measures....


President Bush has submitted legislation to reduce power plant emissions....


Heavy rain over the weekend and poor infrastructure have caused the Cat Lake First Nation to declare a state of emergency....

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Historical accounting plan criticized by Senate, tribal trust mismanagement lawsuits advanced, White House pressed to appoint Indian health post, and Texas tribe forced to close casino....

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After six months of intense discussions, tribal leaders and Department of Interior officials have yet to agree on reforms considered key to fixing the broken Indian trust....

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President Bush plans to sign into law stricter corporate oversight measures, a move which has left some in Indian Country scratching their heads as they seek to bring similar reforms to the management of trust assets....


Pope John Paul II heads to Mexico City, Mexico, this week to canonize the first Indian saint....


The Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut held elections for council members on Saturday....


Seventeen Yankton Sioux students sued a South Dakota school district last week but their claims of being sniffed by drug dogs are being disputed....


A Bureau of Indian Affairs forestry worker has been indicted for allegedly starting fires on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in southern New Mexico....


Alaska Natives and state biologists are working together to better understand fish runs in the Kuskokwim River....


The Navajo Nation Supreme Court on Friday put the tribe's top lawmaker on the presidential ballot....


The Coeur d'Alene's annual pow-wow turned into a memorial for tribal elder Isaac SiJohn, who died over the weekend....


Residents of a 90 percent Indian county in Montana will be able to participate in a special election....


The Billings Gazette today includes an account of a summer 1877 battle that never happened between the Nez Perce Tribe and Army soldiers....


"I'm a survivor, ladies and gentlemen....


An estimated 40,000 Native Americans live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, ranking it high on the list of cities with large urban Indian populations....


About 6,000 athletes are taking part in the North American Indigenous Games....


The 135th Inuit Studies Conference will be held at the University of Alaska at Anchorage this week....


everal tribes in Washington and British Columbia, Canada, are taking part in the Paddle Journey, an annual event that keeps traditional canoeing alive....


The Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma opened a new gaming facility earlier this month....


The Navajo Nation has 44 new homes for tribal members and their families....


California tribes are rallying behind legislation that would give them veto power over development projects on sacred sites....


Fire management systems at the Bureau of Indian Affairs remain disconnected from the Internet seven months after a federal judge ordered the Department of Interior to fix its security problems....


"Two-thirds of the House members decided on July 17 they didn’t want to make or tinker with federal Indian law on appropriations and rejected two provisions of the Interior appropriations bill....


A federal judge today upheld gaming compacts the state of California entered into with California tribes....


A Republican lobbyist influenced Democrats in the Clinton administration to recognize the historic Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut, The New London writes in an editorial....


The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today criticizes the Army Corps of Engineers for scheduling a meeting on an important tribal ceremony day....