Wednesday, April 24, 2002

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The Supreme Court dealt a blow to a group of private landowners in Nevada and California, finding that temporary prohibitions on development do not violate the U.S....

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The Bush administration's attempt to define its obligations to 300,000 American Indians was dealt a major setback with the release of a critical document on Tuesday....

Arson is being suspected in a fire that burned more than 200 acres on the Rocky Boy's Reservation in Montana....

It's time for the second installment of our First Annual In The Hoop Reader Appreciation Survey! We've received an overwhelming response to yesterday's survey, and you can still send in your answers to that one....

Ross Swimmer is uniquely qualified to handle the Indian trust, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb told The Tulsa World this week....

Senator Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) is opposing a bill to settle Sandia Pueblo's land claim to the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico....

A New Mexico man convicted of murdering a Navajo mother cried in court on Tuesday, begging jurors not to sentence him to death....

An archaeologist went digging for graves in wetlands near Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas, apparently without consulting tribes and affected Indians....

Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas has canceled summer school for lack of funding....

The Senate is set to vote Thursday on the energy bill without provisions allowing drilling on Alaska Native lands in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

Tribal leaders and preservationists are welcoming an oil company's decision not to drill at a sacred site in Montana....

The rags-to-riches story of the Tigua Tribe of Texas is written up in the Christian Science Monitor today....

A fire broke out Tuesday on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in southern New Mexico....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut opened its new hotel on Tuesday....

Members of the Shiprock chapter of the Navajo Nation don't want their leader to quit....

The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is continuing hearings on a proposed nuclear waste storage facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah....

The Arizona Legislature has passed a bill urging Congress to reauthorize the Indian Health Care Improvement Act....

A federal judge in Michigan has ruled the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Ojibwe Indians is operating its casino legally....

Shareholders of an Alaska Native corporation are reacting with surprise to news that former executive and his main opponent are teaming up to gain control of Cook Inlet Region Inc....

The Department of Interior is beginning a formal consultation process with states, tribes and local governments on management plans for 15 national monuments....

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Tuesday voted to approve Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the nation's nuclear waste repository....

Author Jeff Benedict has forced a delegate primary in a Connecticut town in order to stay in a hotly contested race in the state's 2nd Congressional district....

Reconsideration of a rejected gaming bill has been delayed in the Arizona Legislature....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is settling a lawsuit over a proposed golf course and resort....

Two people have been charged for the death of a man on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana....
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