Friday, May 17, 2002

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The Bush administration's drug czar on Thursday unveiled a new set of ads targeting extremely high rates of drug use among Native American youth....

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Public safety trumps tribal sovereignty, a divided Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on Thursday....

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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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A federal judge has dealt the state of Kansas a setback in its ongoing tax fight against the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska....

A draft biological opinion by the National Marine Fisheries Service concludes that coho salmon in the Klamath Basin won't get enough water....

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Richard Clifton to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals....

A full panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that incendiary tactics of anti-abortion activists are unconstitutional....

The Department of Interior on Thursday released a revised assessment of the oil in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska....

Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham at a Senate hearing on Thursday said the Yucca Mountain facility in Nevada might need to be expanded to handle all the nation's nuclear waste....

A joint environmental impact study prepared by the Department of Interior and the state of Montana received a negative rating by the Environmental Protection Agency....

The White House on Thursday sought to dispel criticism that the Bush administration failed to act on warnings preceding September 11's terrorist attacks....

The Bush administration is making two decisions affecting national forests where Alaska Native corporations have interests....

Federal statistics released on Thursday show a decline in teen smoking....

Research published in today's issue of Science suggests a link between the rise of dinosaurs and a meteor which hit the earth 200 million years ago....

An oil company based in the United States has withdrawn plans to drill on traditional Indian territory in Colombia....

The chairman of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota is being locked out of office....

The Montana Supreme Court this week refused to dismiss a case involving the reach of state wildlife laws to reservations....

Federal officials allowed an oil well to be drilled right in the center of a prehistoric Modoc village in Oregon but never knew of the site's significance....

The Affiliated Tribe of Northwest Indians held its annual meeting in Idaho this week....

The Department of Interior is handing over a set of run-down school buildings to the 19 Pueblo tribes that own Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico....

A bill to approve Indian gaming in Arizona moved ahead on Thursday after some amendments....