Thursday, April 11, 2002

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton might be forced into deciding who owns a set of 10,000-year-old human remains an independent review panel said should go to a Nevada tribe....

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The Department of Interior and the Cobell plaintiffs today filed their responses to a proposed extension of court monitor Joseph S....

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Now here's a tribal enterprise In The Hoop can get behind....

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The White House on Wednesday made an urgent pitch to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, saying Saddam Hussein of Iraq was moving to cut off his supply of oil to the U.S....

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered mediation between the state of Wyoming and the Northern Arapaho Tribe....

A proposal to replace Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and Columbus Day with holidays for Veterans Day and Indian Cultural Day is raising flak in New Mexico....

Representatives of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe were on hand Wednesday for the official transfer of coal tracts to the state of Montana. A member of the tribal council and a tribal elder expressed hope that that development of the highly lucrative Otter Coal Tracts would benefit the local community and be done in a culturally sensitive way....

The Department of Energy on Wednesday released 950 pages of documents related to President Bush's national energy task force....

A Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee on Wednesday held an oversight hearing on the Superfund program....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut has established its own drug court....

As part of a casino study approved in Rhode Island, local laws will be examined....

The Chicago company hoping to start a kitty litter plant on land next to a Nevada reservation might get a chuckle knowing that some people at the Department of Interior support the product....

President Bush on Wednesday called on the Senate to ban all types of human cloning....

The House on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led attempt to scuttle reforms brought about the campaign finance reform bill....

Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge on Wednesday held his first Congressional briefing....

The Arizona House on Wednesday approved a bill affecting a proposed $350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium....

A non-Indian man is asking a federal court to award him $158,000 for what he claims was a lost jackpot at the casino owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut....

Arthur Andersen is near entering a guilty plea for destroying documents related to the fall of Enron, The New York Times reports today....

"The recent P-I article about the imminent loss of two Native American outreach workers at DSHS was right on target, except where it perpetuated the invisibility of Native people who live in the margins of our urban areas....

The Navajo Nation Council on Tuesday tabled a proposal to take over health contracting from the Indian Health Service....

Testimony in the trial of a New Mexico man charged with murdering a Navajo mother continued on Wednesday....

The state of Nevada on Wednesday shut off water to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project....

The House Resources Committee next week will hold a hearing on a bill to compensate three Oklahoma for the loss of land on the Arkansas River....

The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is considering whether jet crashes might be a threat to a nuclear waste facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah....

Senate Republicans on Wednesday tried to force debate on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

The National Museum of the American Indian in New York City this month will hold a special tribute to honor the Mohawk men who helped build the now fallen World Trade Center complex....

A non-Native police offer in Ontario, Canada, was demoted on Wednesday for distributing a picture of an injured Aboriginal man on the Internet....

The courts may end up deciding whether the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska owes gas taxes for distributing oil to fellow tribes....

Colorado filmmaker Don Vasicek is planning a documentary of the Sand Creek Massacre....