Thursday, November 21, 2002

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Legislation to compensate two Sioux tribes for more than 4,000 acres of lost land cleared its final hurdle on Wednesday after being stripped of provisions that threatened passage....

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Congressional leaders on Wednesday praised the approval of what they said was a record $750 million in funding to fight the growing epidemic of diabetes in Indian Country....

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Approval of key Indian legislation appeared uncertain on Wednesday as both chambers of Congress wrapped up remaining business for the year....

Voters on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota have a new set of leaders....

The Senate wrapped up its work for the year on Wednesday as the 107th Congress heads to an end when the House closes tomorrow....

The Department of Energy awarded a $3 million grant to scientists whose goal is to create a new living organism....

Republican leaders in the Connecticut Legislature might convene hearings next year in an attempt to limit new tribal casinos, The Norwich Bulletin reports....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut held tours of its new child care center on Wednesday....

The racetrack industry in Arizona launched another suit aimed at stopping tribes from continued gaming....

A student group at the University of North Dakota is holding a forum on mascots next week....

The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year grant to the Chief Dull Knife College on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation of Montana....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader praises the Sisseton-Wahpeton College on the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota for taking steps to rebuild its nursing program....

The Innu community in Davis Inlet, Labrador, is being relocated to a new community but not all the homes are ready to be occupied....

The US Army Corps of Engineers is getting ready to sign off on a proposed highway expansion near Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas....

President Bush will nominate former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge as Secretary of Homeland Security, according to news accounts....

A federal judge on Wednesday denied to issue a preliminary injunction against the Crow Tribe of Montana for the recent ouster of two tribal court judges....

The Canadian government has limited liability of the Anglican Church in abuse suits brought by Aboriginals....

A federal magistrate plans to hold a near next week to address claims by the state of New Mexico that Pojoaque Pueblo is using too much water....

The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma has purchased 240 acres in New York for $738,544, The Syracuse Post-Standard reported....

South Dakota attorney general Mark Barnett (R) dismissed allegations of widespread voter fraud on Indian reservations as unfounded rumor....

The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California would receive 24 acres of land at Lake Tahoe under a bill near final Congressional approval....

The Senate approved a $200 million water project to benefit the Rocky Boy's Reservation in Montana and other communities....

A bill to extend the life of a South Dakota reservation water project was cleared for President Bush's signature on Wednesday....

The Senate on Wednesday approved a land exchange benefiting two Alaska Native corporations....

A bill to resolving three Oklahoma tribe's ownership of the Arkansas River bed was approved by the Senate on Thursday, clearing it for President Bush's signature....

The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma has delayed plans to build an assisted living center as it moves forward with a casino....