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The Bush administration on Thursday refused to endorse a controversial casino agreement that paves the way for the largest expansion of gaming in New York state history....

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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 largest gathering of Alaska Natives opened on Thursday with leaders vowing to thwart attacks on their right to self-determination....

A Navajo Nation man facing federal charges for the deaths of two people has a history of drunk driving, The Farmington Daily-Times reported....

The Bush administration confirmed a $159 billion deficit, the first since 1997....

A new anti-casino group in Connecticut said its focus will include changing state laws to prevent tribes from economic development....

The backers of three gaming initiatives in Arizona raised more than $37 million, The Arizona Republic reported....

The Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado plans to continue discussions about a proposed hospital move....

The St.Croix Ojibwe Tribe of Wisconsin has reached an agreement with the state and two counties on emergency response planning....

An American Indian activist who is serving a life sentence for murder can't get his journals back from his old attorney, a North Carolina judge ruled....

The Democrat candidate for Arizona's fifth Congressional District criticizes his opponent for accepting an enormous amount of campaign contributions....

The candidates for a county commission seat in New Mexico say cooperation with the Navajo Nation can improve road development....

The Shoshone-Bannock Nation of Idaho is requesting a state and federal probe into the treatment of Native students at a local high school....

Frederick Diaz, a nine-year-old member of the Apache Tribe, is featured in the November-December issue of Scholastic News....

A drug and alcohol abuse center on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota will stay open thanks to a $63,000 grant....

Paul Wellstone, one of the Senate's leading liberals and a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, was killed in a plane crash in Minnesota on Friday along with his wife, daughter, three staff members and two pilots....

"Raising Ourselves -- A Gwich'in Coming-of-Age Story From the Yukon River" is a new book by Alaska Native author Velma Wallis....

Representative Mike Thompson (D-California) has introduced a bill to provide $20 million in emergency financial assistance to tribes hit by the Klamath fish kill....

Governor Bill Graves (R) of Kansas has written President Bush to seek support in opposition a bill to settle a tribal land claim....

Results of a primary election on the Pine Ridge Reservation are in limbo because an election board said it can't guarantee the accuracy of a recount....

Washington tribes are opposing a state Supreme Court candidate whose views they say are anti-Indian and anti-sovereignty....

The Democratic staff on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has released a report criticizing President Bush's rollback of environmental and health regulations finalized during the Clinton administration....

Evidence of voter fraud among Native Americans in South Dakota is being linked to a former Democratic party worker....

A dispute over a proposed casino in California has shelved an omnibus parks bill, The Washington Post reports....

The Alyeska Pipeline Service Company has increased Alaska Native employment from 5 percent ten years ago to 18 percent, the company president said at the Alaska Federation of Natives on Thursday....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's decision not to approve or deny the Seneca Nation gaming compact will make legal challenges easier, anti-gaming forces said....

Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) turned his scheduled Congressional update at the Alaska Federation of Natives into a campaign speech....

A judge in Canada has dismissed the Anglican Church from abuse suits of Aboriginals who attended government boarding schools....

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Has the sniper who has killed three people and wounded 10 others in the Washington, DC, area been caught? According to the mainstream media, yes....

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A high-ranking Department of Interior official who has broad authority over Indian affairs appears to have been legally appointed to his position, a Congressional investigation has concluded....

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A new Internet web site contains millions of records from the 1880 U.S. Census, including information on 66,000 American Indians....

The three candidates for South Dakota's House seat took part in a televised debate on Wednesday....

A group called Connecticut Alliance Against Casino Expansion will announce its formation and goals today, The New London Day reports....

Elsie Swiftbird Garreau LeBeau, a former Bureau of Indian Affairs employee, died in South Dakota from pulmonary complications....

A casino owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida takes in $5.1 million a month, according to The Miami Herald....

The spokespersons for an anti-casino group in Maine also work for a casino company, The Portland Press-Herald reports....

Idaho voters are being asked to authorize expansion of gaming on the state's reservations....

An Indian business owner has founded the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of North Carolina....

Two schools have bought time at a telescope observatory built on an Arizona mountain considered sacred....

A federal judge in Montana on Wednesday sentenced a Crow Reservation man to more than two years in prison for a drunken-driving accident....

"A photograph in last week's Pioneer Press showed a smiling Gov....

Connecticut's 2nd Congressional district heated up earlier this year with a focus on tribal issues by one-time candidate Jeff Benedict....

A Kansas Congressman who has drafted a bill to settle a tribal land claim received donations from casino interest, The Kansas City Star reports....

The chairman of the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians has been released from a California jail after authorities failed to bring charges in connection with a fatal stabbing....

The last Department of Interior consultation on reorganization of Indian trust duties was held on Wednesday in Montana....

A federal jury in Montana convicted a former Turtle Mountain Ojibwe chairman and an associate with embezzling more than $100,000 in tribal funds....

Accusations over alleged voter fraud among Indian voters in South Dakota continue as the crucial Senate race between incumbent Tim Johnson (D) and Congressman John Thune (R) nears....

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UPDATE: Secretary of Interior Gale Norton has exercised her option not to approve or disapprove a gaming compact between the Seneca Nation and the state of New York....

Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) plans to introduce legislation to change the way federal funds are distributed to Alaska Native governments....

The number of fish killed in the Klamath River in northern California has been raised to 33,000....

The Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act is under review by a state commission....

A new program hopes to strengthen the personal and social skills of Aboriginal youth in Canada....

Two Alaska Native organizations have started a program to ensure children in the foster care system are taken care of....

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If you're a tribal leader, lobbyist or lover, you probably heard those words uttered by a politico near you....

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Facing a court investigation into his role as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb on Tuesday promised to recover 10 months worth of e-mails that were erased in violation of his own policies....

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A federal judge has cleared the way for a tribal challenge to his decision to hand over the remains of a 9,000-year-old man to scientists....

State health officials in Alaska have confirmed an outbreak of salmonella in the Inupiat village of Elim....

A 17-year-old Minnesota resident pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for a death on the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation....

The three candidates for governor of Oklahoma have not ruled out eliminating the tribal monopoly on Class II gaming, The Daily Oklahoman reports....

A federal judge sentenced a child care worker on the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana to 14 years in prison for sexual abuse....

A jury in Oklahoma convicted a 16-year-old high school student of taking part in the rape of an American Indian girl....

An Indian running organization is looking for Native American runners to participate in a national championship race....

Roger Moe is considered one of the strongest supporters of Indian gaming in Minnesota....

Author and failed congressional candidate Jeff Benedict will head a new anti-casino group in Connecticut....

A cow was spotted in Yellowstone National Park but got away before anyone could haze it, test it for a deadly cattle disease and slaughter it....

"Rather than characterize the record of the now-departed Congress, let me begin by reporting what the people's representatives and senators did and did not do on their final day in session....

Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) has an opponent again....

Gordon Smith has resigned as chairman of the Makah Nation of Washington in order to work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a trust officer, The Peninsula Daily News reports....

South Dakota has made "little progress" resolving issues of tribal sovereignty, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial today....

A bill near approval in a joint House-Senate committee exempts the Department of Defense from a law protecting eagles, The Washington Post reports....

The tribes appealing the Kennewick Man case want to protect federal repatriation law, a Nez Perce attorney said....

Tribal leaders in southwest Oklahoma have asked Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson to investigate local problems with the Indian Health Service....

The story of a Navajo girls champion basketball team in New Mexico is the subject of competing film productions and competing interests....

Tribes gave more of their money to Republican interests than previous election cycles, Gannett News Service reports....

The Yurok Tribe of California filed suit in federal court on Tuesday to increase water for dying fish....

The recently recognized Cowlitz Tribe of Washington is working on a memorandum of understanding with a local county....

"A corrupt home-plate umpire can easily decide the outcome of any baseball game....

The Oklahoma lawmaker who wanted to introduce a blood quantum bill to get rid of "wannabees" argues against a state lottery in an opinion piece in The Daily Oklahoman....

"I'm an American Indian....

An Oneida woman says she has nowhere to live now that her tribe demolished her trailer home on the Oneida Reservation in New York....

The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma has laid off 162 employees of its casino....

There was "administrative opposition" to an upgrade of all computer desktop systems at the Department of Interior, a top official said....

Could a new golf course help Haskell Indian Nations University of Kansas overcome a tight budget? Developer J.B....

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The Congressional committees with jurisdiction over tribal affairs took up dozens of bills and issues this year affecting Indian Country....

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A federal court has opened an investigation that could bring additional contempt charges against Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb....

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The state of Montana has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that freed Indian-owned businesses from state taxation....

Nearly 200 Indian youth took part in the first Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Youth Summit last week....

The Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal of the execution of a 17-year-old convicted of murder....

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Tribe of Arizona has donated $150,000 to the American Red Cross....

Nineteen members of the Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado are vying for four seats on the tribal council....

The San Francisco Chronicle profiles Adam Nordwall, a Red Lake Ojibwe man known for his unique brand of Indian activism....

Federal authorities are planning to charge a member of the Navajo Nation with vehicular manslaughter for an accident that occurred on the reservation, The Farmington Daily-Times reports....

"From Navajo Land to Oklahoma: Dine Textile Art" will be on display at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History at the University of Oklahoma in Norman The exhibit features some of the "finest examples of Navajo weavings," according to The Daily Oklahoman....

Members of a rebel group attacked an Indian village in Colombia on Sunday....

A teacher's aide at school in Manokotak, Alaska, was found dead on a village trail....

"Lateman Fox, my relative, drew a line last week that said enough is enough....

It used to be that the only business on reservations was the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

South Dakota's Senate and House race have drawn attention long before the current controversy over Indian voter fraud....

ndian voters will determine which party controls the Senate, according to Frank LaMere, a National Democratic Committee official....

CBC-TV of Canada is broadcasting a series about a Metis man who was hanged for treason after leading a rebellion in 1885....

Brian Wallace appears to have won re-election as chairman of the Washoe Band of California and Nevada....

The state of Montana has dropped its attempt to tax a tribally-owned business....

A member of the Oneida Nation who challenged the tribe's policies will have her trailer home torn down as part a plea agreement in tribal court....

The United States made a secret deal with Denmark in the 1950s that forced the relocation of members of the Inughuit Tribe of Greenland....

Preliminary results of a study of South Dakota's justice system confirm that Native Americans face disparate treatment, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports....

A federal magistrate in Oregon today agreed to let four Pacific Northwest tribes appeal his decision to turn Kennewick Man over to scientists....

A non-profit group in Connecticut is questioning the way the Mohegan Tribe is conducting its aquaculture business....

A business owner on the Colorado River Indian Reservation in Arizona claims the tribe retaliated against her when she complained....

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An independent review of Indian trust decisions attempts to counter Bush administration claims of a flood of "costly" litigation over mismanagement of Indian assets....

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Supreme Court decisions target of tribal campaign, trust reform legislation delayed in Congress, Indian voter registrations examine in South Dakota, and tribal casino ad draws complaints....

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The Bush administration is set to decide whether an Oklahoma tribe has the right to open a casino on land hundreds of miles away from its current home....

Jack Jackson Junior, a Democrat running for the Arizona State Legislature, is expected to win his race, the Associated Press reports....

"We Indians rely on many signs, provided to us by nature, to let us know when a bad winter is coming....

Voters of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe of Wyoming have elected an entirely new council....

Navajo Nation presidential candidate Joe Shirley doesn't want to debate incumbent President Kelsey Begaye....

A weekend search for a missing members of North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe turned up no leads....

A proposal to raise student fees at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas originated with students, The Lawrence Journal-World reports....

The Alaska Native Language Center was founded by the state Legislature in 1972 to document and cultivate Alaska's 20 Native language....

Alaska Natives are split mostly along urban-rural lines over the candidates for governor of Alaska....

The acting chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana received the second highest number of votes in a primary held on Saturday....

"There are few opportunities to see your country through the eyes of a foreigner....

The Utah official in charge of student testing quit during a meeting with Indian education leaders....

"I am dismayed with the Oct....

Some members of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California plan to protest the Nevada Day Parade on Saturday....

Bemidji State University of Minnesota is building a $2.6 million American Indian Resource Center....

The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma has registered more than 9,000 voters....

A spokesperson for the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma denies allegations that tribal employees were pressured to make campaign contributions....

Nearly 5,000 Alaska Natives are expected to turn out for the 2002 Alaska Federation in Anchorage this week....

Authorities in California will charge the chairman of the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians and his nephew with murder and attmpted, according to news accounts....

Nothing has come out of nine months of talks about trust reform with tribal leaders, a Department of Interior official said....

Republicans have given up on trying to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, according to a leading Senate proponent....

The majority of money in a campaign fund created by Representative J.D.Hayworth (R-Arizona) comes from tribes or tribal lobbyists, a review by The Arizona Republic has found....
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