Friday, July 18, 2003

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A unanimous DC Circuit Court of Appeals today threw out contempt charges against Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and former Indian affairs aide Neal McCaleb....

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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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The Senate voted late Wednesday to confirm Dr....

New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi on Thursday upheld the law that ushered in the largest expansion of gaming in state history....

US District Judge Royce Lamberth awarded the children of a woman killed in a 1997 suicide bombing $313 million, saying the government of Iran must pay for behind behind the terrorist attack....

Robert Flint, a psychologist who helped the Minneapolis police department change its stereotypes about American Indians, died June 20....

The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma plans to open a portable Class II bingo hall in September while it finishes work on a permanent facility in New York, The Syracuse Post-Standard reports....

The Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded grants to two Oklahoma tribes to improve library services....

Caleb Johnson was elected vice-chairman of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona on Wednesday by 68 votes....

The Dole Institute of Politics at Kansas University will host a discussion Sunday featuring Navajo and Comanche Code Talkers....

Even though the Navajo Nation lost $2.74 million at the 2002 Winter Olympics, the tribe reaped many benefits, an official said....

The Gila River Indian Community signed a water sharing agreement with the city of Phoenix....

Two Congressional committees have cut funds to the Mni Wiconi water project for the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Sioux reservations in South Dakota....

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is holding a five-day veterinary clinic to help control a growing dog problem....

Indian affairs minister Robert Nault said Phil Fontaine's election as chief of the Assembly of First Nations will bring about positive changes in the federal-tribal relationship....

The Senate Judiciary Committee delayed action on the nomination of William Pryor to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals after Democrats questioned whether he was truthful about fundraising efforts as Alabama's attorney general....

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 5-2 on Thursday that state courts must give full faith and credit to tribal court judgments....

A federal judge in Canada ordered the federal government to make changes to the Klamath Basin water management plan....

"In many ways the federally recognized Connecticut tribes, particularly the Mashantuckets and Eastern Pequots, owe a large debt to the Narragansetts. For starters, some tribal members, including Mashantucket vice-chairman Kenny Reels, used to be Narragansett, and many more have Narragansett ancestry or relatives....

Paul Bernal, a Taos Pueblo elder who fought for return of the tribe's sacred Blue Lake, died Wednesday of natural causes....

Cecilia Lucero, a teacher at the Bureau of Indian Affairs school on the Laguna Pueblo reservation in New Mexico, has been recognized as one of the top 32 teachers in the country....

Members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona will be allowed to return to their homes today as crews continue to battle a blaze on the reservation....

Some Native American artisans in Gallup, New Mexico, are trying to organize a boycott against Arab merchants whom they accuse of being too rude and flooding the market with fakes....

Since the closure of the Meskwaki Tribe's casino in May, the state of Iowa has seen business grow at gaming facilities....

"Elouise Cobell (Blackfeet) and others went to court in 1996 on behalf of 500,000 Indian account holders....

Representative Richard Pombo (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Resources Committee, today called for a federal probe of the state of Rhode Island's actions against the Narragansett Tribe....

The Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado remains closed but the park's Puebloan villages and artifacts are said to be safe from fire....
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