A federal judge on Monday approved a request by the state of New York to hold back paying a $247.9 million land claim award to the Cayuga Nation while an appeal and potential settlement of the long-running dispute is pursued....

After scoring a hit for taking the The Wall Street Journal to task for a racist portrayal of Indian issues, Indian Country Today has struck out with its latest editorial on trust reform....

More than a year after a hold was put on regulations aimed at restoring the tribal land base, the Bush administration has failed to propose an alternative....

In an editorial today, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader criticizes law enforcement authorities for subjecting a Dakota teenager to "appalling conditions." "Officials said she was housed where she was, because there was no place else to put her," writes the paper....

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The Penobcot Nation and the Passamaquoddy Tribe have dropped their push to open a casino in Maine....

The Eastern Band of Cherokees in North Carolina have added live digital blackjack tables to its casino....

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday heard arguments in a dispute between tribes in Ecuador against oil giant Texaco....

The Bush administration on Monday proposed to temporarily eliminate habitat protections for 19 salmon and steelhead runs in order to settle a lawsuit brought by development interests and local governments....

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Three of Maine's tribal leaders make a first-ever address to the state Legislature on Monday....

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee next week will hold a hearing on a bill to distribute a land claim award to members of the Western Shoshone Nation....

In an effort to bring more tourists to its three-state reservation, the Navajo Nation has begun work with the federal government and a land trust organization....

A group of prison inmates in Montana have sued the state in order to be returned to a main state prison....

The tribes on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana held a homecoming ceremony last night to honor their basketball stars....

The Crow Tribe of Montana has softened its opposition to expanding the Little Bighorn Battlefield to include several key areas of land....

The Vatican has ordered a five-year moratorium on new deacons in the heavily Indian state of Chiapas, Mexico....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's claim that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will create more than 700,000 jobs is being questioned by economists and her own allies....

"The Fighting Whities" is only an intramural college team but its founders have gotten a lot of attention from the media....

A federal judge on Monday refused requests to reconsider a $247.9 million judgment award to the Cayuga Nation of New York....

Remembers those two Bureau of Indian Affairs employees, one part-time, who were charged with reviewing land-into-trust applications in New York? Well, they have quit, writes Steve Israel in his column "Casino Confidential." Israel first reported on the lack of resources dedicated to land-into-trust when he questioned whether any decisions would be made soon affecting off-reservation casinos in the Catskills....

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb has affirmed the trust status of land owned by the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma but the tribe won't still won't be able to open a casino in Kansas....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is "softening" her tone on reorganizing Indian trust, Federal Computer Week reports....

First Nations leaders are meeting in Winnipeg this week to oppose changes to the federal-band relationship....