Friday, January 11, 2002

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Leaving out some details about his department's handling of the debacle, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb on Thursday tried to assure concerned tribal leaders that making royalty payments to Indian Country was a top priority....

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1Setting off a political storm whose resolution will be decided by Congress, and perhaps the courts, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham on Thursday informed Nevada Gov....

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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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Attorneys for Secretary of Interior Gale Norton launched the government's long-awaited contempt defense on Thursday with the unsurprising request that the major charges against her and Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb be dismissed....

The Washington State Gambling Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to approve compacts with two tribes....

Grace Glueck of The New York Times reviews an exhibit of Iroquois beadwork from historic times to the present, noting the fashion sense and function of tribal craft....

A Connecticut group claiming to be a sovereign tribe is being fined an additional $1,800 in fines for three vehicles abandoned on a piece of property in the city of Norwich....

A White Earth Ojibwe couple who lost their 22-year-old son to a traffic accident told a judge on Wednesday of the lawless nature of their tribe's reservation and said the death could have been preventable....

Calling the situation an emergency, the Oglala Lakota Tribe of South Dakota is asking the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Centers for Disease Control for help in dealing with a mold infesting homes on the reservation....

"I've stopped being surprised by folks who want to blame harvest for the shape wild salmon stocks are in these days....

The Office of Civil Rights within the Department of Education has asked school districts in South Dakota to provide data about their use of Indian-themed mascots, symbols, performances and other representations....

The city of Boulder, Colorado, has reached an agreement to consult with area tribes and other representatives on cultural sites....

A bank in Santa Ana Pueblo of New Mexico was robbed on Thursday by a man who took an undisclosed amount of cash....

A Connecticut man and his family have sued a local planning commission for approving a golf course and resort proposed by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, saying parcels of the land belong to them....

The fallout over the bankruptcy of Enron Corp increased in breadth on Thursday with a number of revelations that may prove damaging to the Bush administration and increase the liability of the company....

Schools belonging to the National Collegiate Athletic Association are being urged by the president of St....

A final election in a dispute over the leadership of the Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico has returned what the loser is calling an incredulous result....

Public schools in Wyoming are being urged by a dentist to stop selling soda pop in vending machines because the drink is high in sugar and unhealthy....

A coalition of environmental groups has again filed suit against the federal government for approving a whale hunt by the Makah Nation of Washington....

Utah's Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging whether non-Indians can use peyote....

The former Bureau of Indian Affairs official who decided to recognize the Duwamish Tribe of Washington on the last day of the Clinton administration is charging that staff members altered a document he authored....

A deal to settle the water rights of two Oklahoma tribe and sell the water to Texas is running into obstacles from the state and, reportedly, the prospective buyer....

The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld the dual conviction of a tribal hunter, saying it was not prohibited by the double jeopardy clause of the Constitution....

Jim Shore, general counsel to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, was still hospitalized on Thursday after being shot several times in what has been described as a mob-style, planned hit....

Reaction from Nevada regarding the Bush administration's decision to push forward a nuclear dump in the state was swift, harsh and to the point....

In an editorial, The Bismarck Tribune calls on the Department of Interior to fix its long-standing computer problems that led to an Internet shutdown, now in its second month....

January 10 was declared Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Day, in honor of the South Dakota tribe's help in distributing general assistance checks to Indian Country....

The fourth meeting over a proposal to create a new Indian trust agency was held in South Dakota on Thursday and was a repeat of prior sessions in terms of opposition....

A funeral was held in Gallup, New Mexico, on Wednesday for three Navajo children who were allegedly murdered by their mother....
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