Friday, February 15, 2002

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The Census Bureau this week released more detailed statistics on the geographical and tribal makeup of the 4.1 million Americans who claimed some form of American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry on the Census 2000....

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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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Just about a year ago, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton went before tribal leaders and Congress to tell them reforming Indian trust was one of her top priorities....

Legislation introduced in the Senate on Thursday would prevent oil drilling off the coast of California, where it is greatly opposed....

Enron's version of Dom Nessi testified before a House subcommittee on Thursday, saying resigned chairman Ken Lay was duped by former executives whom she alleged no one was strong enough to confront....

Two Arizona companies are helping the Snoqualmie Tribe of Washington build a 170,000-square-foot casino....

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) was scuttled on Thursday in his attempt to bring a campaign finance reform bill to the floor after it gained passage in the House....

President Bush on Thursday announced his plans to reduce the emissions of gases thought to contribute to global warming....

Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham on Thursday officially transmitted his recommendation on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump to President Bush....

A Florida firm has agreed to pay $17 million to settle a lawsuit it overcharged various federal agencies, including the Indian Health Service, for health equipment and services....

In a court filing last week, the auditing firm which performed a reconciliation for tribal assets and is undertaking accounting projects for individual Indians said it was having trouble locating all paper and electronic documents related to failed energy company Enron....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is considering firing Arthur Andersen as its auditor due to the collapse of Enron....

The helmet law of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony goes into effect March 1....

February 14 was declared by the state of Utah as "Discover Navajo: People of the Fourth World Day" while Salt Lake City called it "Navajo Code Talkers Day." A ceremony was held to mark the occasion at the tribe's cultural pavilion at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics....

Research to be published in an upcoming issue of Nature was made public on Thursday by the Wall Street Journal, announcing that researchers at Texas A&M University have cloned a calico cat....

Federal authorities are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those involved with desecrating a burial site in Washington....

Ten years ago today, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut opened its casino, the first in the state, and The New London Day marks the occasion in style....

Two employees fired by Pyramid Lake Paiute chairman Keith Alan Mandell have been offered their jobs back at the Nevada tribe's court....

The Supreme Court is set to decide whether to accept a case that could recognize the Miami Nation of Indiana....

Alaska Governor Tony Knowles on Thursday signed a bill to give an Arctic drilling lobbying group $1 million and the Inupiat village of Kaktovik $100,000....

Governor Tony Knowles on Thursday officially unveiled his solution to a long-running debate over subsistence....

A federal grand jury in New Mexico on Wednesday indicted a Bureau of Indian Affairs employee on four second-degree murder charges for the deaths of two couples....

A pow-wow is being held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on Saturday to raise money to send drum group YoungBird to the Grammy ceremony next week....

State lawmakers in Connecticut have introduced a bill that will terminate Indian ownership rights they say never existed....

Tribes from the Pacific Northwest gave Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb a not so sweet Valentine's Day gift on Thursday, criticizing a proposal to strip the Bureau of Indian Affairs of its trust responsibilities....

Joe Losik, a member of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington, was one of five hoop dancers who performed at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics last week in Salt Lake City, Utah....