Thursday, May 29, 2003

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The Supreme Court is meeting today to consider accepting a case involving tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians....

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Attorneys representing 500,000 American Indian beneficiaries are asking two Senate leaders to delay legislation seeking to resolve the long-running Cobell trust fund lawsuit....

New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi won't stop Governor George Pataki (R) from finalizing new casino deals, Casino opponents will have a chance to appeal the decision....

A Colombian rebel indicted for the murders of three Native activists is being extradited to the United States....

The Department of Interior is blaming environmentalists for breaking the Endangered Species Act program....

An economic development study on the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation will help the tribe and the state of South Dakota, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....

George Dupuis, a Fond du Lac Ojibwe business committee member, resigned last week after an investigation uncovered he was billing the band for expenses that were also being picked up by Minnesota Ojibwe Tribe....

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is urging its adjudicatory board to resolve final licensing issues for a proposed nuclear waste dump on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah....

Families are moving into a $5.2 million housing complex on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico....

Kenneth Reels, former chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut, suggest his tribe would seek an off-reservation casino if the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation were to do so....

Casino mogul Donald Trump says he spent $10.1 million to help the Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut gain federal recognition....

The Morongo Band of Mission Indians broke ground on a $250 million casino-resort destined to be the second-largest tribal gaming facility in California....

Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski signed into law a bill that creates separate Medicaid standards for Native Americans....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs says the Micmac Tribe of Maine can sell tax-free cigarettes on tribal land, the Associated Press reports....

Oklahoma's horse track operators are backing a bill that will allow them to offer the same electronic games as tribal casinos....

Phil Hogen, chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, spoke at the 2003 Sovereignty Symposium in Oklahoma City on Wednesday....

Navajo / Pueblo golfer Notah Begay III is ready to get back to winning after battling two years of injuries and depression....

Marvin Beartusk, 51, a former Bureau of Indian Affairs employee, was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for receiving obscene materials....

The Department of Transportation won't help the state of South Dakota preserve an Indian site that is three to five hundred years old....

The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is holding a meeting today to focus on trust reform and the ongoing reorganization of the Department of Interior....

The Pentagon will bury the remains of a Hopi / Laguna Pueblo serviceman June 18 at Arlington National Cemetery....

Kelly Stoner has been named director of Oklahoma City University's Native American Legal Resource Center....
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