Thursday, May 2, 2002
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Norton releases status report
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton has submitted her latest status update
on trust reform....
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Court monitor discusses friction
Court monitor Joseph Kieffer III released his seventh report today....
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Study documents disparity in Native lending
Native American homeowners pay higher loan rates than their white
counterparts, according to a study released on Wednesday....
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Island is national security and environmental fight
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Navy to halt military training
exercises on an uninhabited Pacific island but the victory could be erased
by Congress....
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In The Hoop: BITitanicAM
Now that all the alternatives to Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's
BITitanicAM have been submitted, tribal leaders are tasked with finding
out which ones might help solve more than a century of trust fund
mismanagement....
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Norton accused of high-level retaliation
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's "minions" are trying to discredit the
only department official with a background in trust matters, according to
a scathing court report released today....
Judge halts action on S.D. lake
A federal judge on Wednesday barred the Army Corps of Engineers from
raising water levels in Lake Oahe in South Dakota....
School incorporates Yup'ik culture
The Naparyarmiut School in Hooper Bay, Alaska, is eyeing a Yup'ik
language immersion program for kindergarten students this fall....
Democrats balk on energy negotiations
Senate Democrats are changing the membership on a joint
Senate-House conference committee that will create a final version of
the controversial energy bill....
Narragansett Tribe revises casino plan
The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island is scaling down plans for a casino.
The tribe and partner Boyd Gaming hope a smaller casino will be more
attractive to state lawmakers concerned about impacts on existing
gaming....
Alaska Native elders honored
The Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska is honoring
its elders....
Methane drilling study discussed
State and federal officials met in Wyoming this week to discuss a
criticized study of coalbed methane drilling....
'Chief' indicted on felony fraud
The chief of the Western Mohegan Tribe of New York has been indicted on
five counts of felony fraud for allegedly sing false Social Security
numbers....
Scientists train rats as robots
Research published in today's issue of Nature shows that rats can be
controlled via remote control and made to perform otherwise unnatural
actions....
Records of Conn. casinos subpoenaed
A federal court overseeing the criminal racketeering case of Vincent
"Buddy" Cianci, the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, subpoenaed
records from two tribal casinos in Connecticut....
Editorial: No more tribal casinos
The New London Day is calling for an end to future tribal casinos in
Connecticut....
Cayuga land claim appealed
The state of New York on Monday filed a notice of appeal for the Cayuga
Nation's land claim....
Change to college loan policy dropped
The Bush administration has dropped a proposal to change a college loan
policy due to lack of Congressional support....
Code Talkers receive special medal
Four Navajo Code Talkers were given a special student-designed medal
at a ceremony at Navajo Preparatory School in New Mexico last month....
Mescalero fire task force created
Federal, tribal and state law enforcement authorities have created a task
force to find the person or persons responsible for more than 100 fires on
the Mescalero Apache Reservation in southern New Mexico....
Native corp gears up for fight
Shareholders of Cook Inlet Region Inc will attend the Alaska Native
corporation's annual meeting next month to choose five members of the
15-seat board....
Halt to Makah whale hunt sought
Animal-rights activists on Wednesday asked a federal judge in
Washington to put a halt to the Makah whale hunt....
Bush's help wanted on tribal project
President Bush is being asked to help push a Montana water project
through Congress....
Haskell might reopen summer school
Haskell Indian Nations University might be able to reopen its summer
school if classes are open to the larger community....
Norton tells Slonaker to report to Griles
Special Trustee Tom Slonaker has been told to report to Deputy
Secretary J....
Group claims religious use of tea
A religious group based in New Mexico is comparing itself to the Native
American Church in seeking an exemption for use of a hallucinogenic tea.
A federal judge earlier this year denied attempts by the O Centro Espirita
Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, which has roots in Brazil, to skirt the law.
But the ruling left open consideration on other issues....
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