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Reeling from recent court decisions that have eroded their sovereign rights, tribal leaders are taking a greater interest in nominees to the federal bench....

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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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Indian leaders and federal officials this week announced plans to breathe new life into an executive order promoting Indian education....

Savran Clah, a Navajo student attending Dine College on the Navajo Reservation, was invited by NASA to present results of his space research at the Kennedy Space Center....

Representative Nancy Pelosi of California was elected the House Democratic leader on Thursday....

President Bush on Thursday announced plans to speed up outsourcing of certain federal jobs to private companies....

New Mexico Governor-elect Bill Richardson is welcoming Native Americans to his transition team and task force....

The University of Montana started a student-run online newspaper called reznet....

Researchers and students at Dine College are focusing on a "pandemic" of diabetes on the Navajo Nation....

A coalition of Alaska Natives, artists and environmental groups completed a cross-country journey to oppose development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Thursday....

Navajo tribal leaders need to stop acting like children and resolve their power struggle over a Boys and Girls Club on the Navajo Nation, The Farmington Daily-Times says in an editorial today....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today praises the settlement of a voter rights lawsuit filed by Sioux tribal members in South Dakota....

The Narragansett Tribe is back in court today over a proposed dig that could impact burial sites and artifacts....

A mining company in northern New Mexico plans to expand its operation against the protests of tribal members....

President Bush has signed into law a bill to reauthorize a federal housing program tailored to meet the housing needs of Indian Country....

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have urged Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado) to seek re-election in 2004, the only Native American in the Senate told The Denver Post....

Wilma Mankiller, former chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, was the keynote speaker for a Lewis and Clark conference at Penn State University....

The Yakama Nation of Washington plans to join efforts to recover threatened species of fish....

Funeral services are scheduled next Tuesday for the late Reverend Harold Jones, 92, the first Native American bishop....

Rosilda Manuel, a Tohono O'odham educator died last week in Arizona....

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved two of President Bush's appointees to the federal appellate courts....

Funeral services were held on Thursday for Judy Sam Trejo, a Paiute award-winning artist from Nevada....

Nineteen members of the Oneida Nation of New York have sued at least 25 tribal officials, alleging violation of civil rights....

The South Dakota Legislature's State-Tribal Relations Committee is meeting this week to address treatment of Native Americans in the justice system....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut will open a $12.7 million childcare center on its reservation....

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The 59th annual session of the National Congress of American Indians is winding down here in San Diego, California....

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Department of Interior officials came "perilously close" to criminal contempt sanctions for refusing to abide by court orders, the federal judge overseeing the trust fund debacle has ruled....

A federal appeals court in Mexico on Tuesday upheld the prison sentences of 18 non-Indian farmers who massacred an Indian village in Chiapas....

The Oklahoma City Indian Clinic has a diabetes program that has from from 138 patients six years ago to than 1,000 participants today....

The Reverend Harold Jones, the first Native American bishop, died in Arizona on Tuesday....

The 27th annual American Indian Film Festival kicked off this past weekend in San Francisco, California....

The police chief in Duluth, Minnesota, is joining the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College on the Fond du Lac Reservation....

The Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute of New Mexico has named Joseph Martin, a member of the Navajo Nation, as its new president....

The House on Wednesday passed legislation to create a Department of Homeland Security....

The Republican party elected its new Congressional leadership on Wednesday but there were few major surprises....

Senator Tim Johnson's (D-South Dakota) narrow victory over Republican John Thune was complete on Wednesday....

An Oklahoma racetrack is blaming its financial problems on Indian gaming....

Connecticut's two tribal casinos draw a large number of out-of-state tourists, according to a new survey....

The House on Wednesday approved a continuing resolution to keep funding for federal agencies at the current level....

The Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to distribute a $138 million trust fund to members of the Western Shoshone Nation....

Three Alaska Native corporations whose investment in a federal wireless auction is the subject of Supreme Court case will receive a $233 million refund....

An Methodist minister who is part of the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference is accused of 'first-degree rape of a teenage girl....

A majority of members of the Fort Belknap Tribes of Montana voted against a takeover of trust services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

The fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Indian Country development will be in Republican hands next year with the breakdown of talks over an energy policy bill....

Joe Shirley, recently elected president of the Navajo Nation, wants to bring back the tribe's old style of government Shirley believes the three-branch government has hampered economic development....

The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust fund debacle has awarded more than $120,000 in fees to the Cobell plaintiffs for frivolous motions filed by the federal government....

The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma is developing a new Class II casino on 33 acres of trust land....

Trust reform, sacred sites, veterans and health care are a few of the issues on the agenda for the 59th annual session of the National Congress of American Indians....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Monday sent out her decision letter on the Seneca Nation gaming compact with the state of New York....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs on Wednesday honored the last surviving Oklahoma tribal members who received original land allotments....

"To own a casino is to be backed up to the loading dock of the federal mint....

A White House-ordered review of the Klamath Basin that restored water to non-Indian farmers has been criticized as politically influenced and without sound scientific backing....

The fire fighting team of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation of Kansas has been called on to fight fires throughout the country....

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed charges against a non-Indian man accused of conspiring to steal funds from the Crow Tribe of Montana....

The Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming can operate slot machines and other Class III games, a federal mediator has ruled....

"Who is a Native and who is not has been a question the bureaucracy has kicked from pillar to post for more than 100 years....

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Unity in Indian Country has been a common theme throughout the 59th annual session of the National Congress of American Indians being held this week in San Diego, California....

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Trust reform took center stage at the nation's largest inter-tribal gathering on Tuesday, as debate raged over the next phase of the landmark Cobell lawsuit....

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Tribal leaders are moving to counteract a controversial legislative proposal that would extinguish the rights of individual Indian account holders in exchange for a cash payout....

Election officials in South Dakota completed a canvass of votes in the state's close U.S....

The remaining federal appropriations bills won't be considered until Congress reconvenes under full Republican control, The New York Times reports....

A police officer for the Fort Peck Tribes of Montana rescued an unconscious man from a house fire....

Two tribal colleges in Montana will receive federal grants for building and expansion projects....

The 400th anniversary of the first Catholic mass in California was remembered on Tuesday as a link to the state's colonial past....

Indian students in Oklahoma are taking part in an art competition and show in Shawnee....

Democrats plan to allow confirmation of two of President Bush's appointees to the federal bench, The New York Times reports....

The brother of the former chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana pleaded guilty in federal court in a tribal theft case....

The Alaska Native village of Alakanuk has seen a high rate of alcohol-related incidents in recent months....

A study by the Connecticut Office of Tourism shows that tribal casinos are a major draw for tourists....

A $20 million grant has been awarded to the Indian Land Tenure Foundation to help protect the Indian land base....

"Typically, when you get caught holding someone or something hostage, the outcome is unpleasant....

A group calling itself the Southern Cherokee Nation plans to open a riverboat casino on the Arkansas River in Oklahoma....

The state of Nebraska is returning about 20 set of remains to the Winnebago Tribe under a new state repatriation law....

Rodney Lewis, general counsel for the Gila River Indian Community of Arizona, has been named to the transition of newly elected Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano (D)....

A federal judge in Rhode Island directed the Narragansett Tribe to waive its sovereign immunity as part of a dispute over a sewer construction project, The Providence Journal reports....

The Seminole Tribe of Florida has sued Prudential Securities alleging a breach of trust over millions of dollars of lost tribal funds....

The Wisconsin-based Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans has acquired 125 acres of land in central New York, its aboriginal territory....

Carl Venne was sworn in as the new chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana on Tuesday....

An Oklahoma lawmaker who has challenged Indian policies plans to introduce a bill to end the tribal Class II gaming monopoly....

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New challenges face Indian Country with the Republican Party in control of the White House and Congress, tribal leaders said on Monday....

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A Washington county does not have the right to tax land owned by the Quinault Nation, a federal appeals court ruled last Friday....

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Election day surprises and upsets put Republicans back in control of Congress, Indian Country still battling on trust reform, and voters go to the polls in support of tribal gaming....

Federal grants and research have not stopped the diabetes epidemic in Indian Country, Native health experts said....

The Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point, Maine, swore in its new tribal leaders at a traditional ceremony on Saturday....

The Vatican will not reverse a five-year moratorium on new Indian deacons in Chiapas, Mexico, the Associated Press reports....

Note: The following appears to be a form letter generated by anti-tribal and ani-treaty rights groups....

The New London Day in an editorial today softens its qualified support for Michael J....

The Bush administration has rescinded a ban on snowmobiles in two national parks, the Associated Press reports....

Navajos in Lake Valley, New Mexico, recently had a water spigot installed adjacent to their community center....

Congress returns to work today for a post-election session to consider wrapping up unfinished business....

The Catawba Nation of South Carolina is voting on a tribal constitution....

"Cancer mortalities among North Dakota Native Americans is the highest in the nation, Dr....

"“Do Indians have to prove who they are?” asks Glenn Marshall in his Aug....

Members of the Fort Belknap Tribes of Montana are being asked to rescind a tribal takeover of Indian trust and other services....

Outgoing Arizona Governor Jane Hull (R) is ready to sign new gaming compacts with tribes in the state but is waiting until a federal judge gives her the green light....

The Canadian government is seeking to take Native boarding school abuse cases out of the court system in order to settle historical claims....

A federal judge has scheduled a hearing today to address concerns by the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island over a planned sewer dig....

The 59th annual session of the National Congress of American Indians kicked off in San Diego, California, on Monday....

Humboldt State University held its annual American Indian College Motivation Day last week....

A traditional funeral will be held on Monday for a 19-year-old member of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota....

Malaysian billionaire Lim Kok Thay is loaning the Seneca Nation of New York $80 million so the tribe can build a casino in Niagara Falls....

The South Dakota Legislature's State-Tribal Relations Committee is meeting this week to address Native American inmate issues....

"On Tuesday the Unified Government pulled a fast one, hastily cobbling together a deal for an Indian casino without the benefit of public hearing or input....

Students in the hometown of NASA astronaut John Herrington were disappointed with the delay in the Chickasaw Nation tribal member's launch into space, The Daily Oklahoman reported....

Alaska Native students in Juneau are taking part in a program aimed at increasing high school graduation and college enrollment rates....

Senator Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico) will be leaving his longtime post as chairman of the powerful Senate Budget Committee but not without some grumbling, The Washington Post reports....

A program at the Na'Nizhoozhi Center in New Mexico tries to help Navajo tribal members overcome alcohol addiction through traditional teachings....

Two Alaska villages recently approved the sale of liquor....

The Navajo Nation community of Lake Valley, New Mexico, has been hooked up to its first water line....

The Blackfeet Nation of Montana might still remove its chairman and vice-chairman, The Great Falls Tribune reported....

A group of Alaska Natives re-enacted parts of a traditional seal hunting festival on Saturday....

Award-winning artist Keith Secola takes his inspiration from his Anishinabe roots but his music incorporates a wide variety of styles from rock to reggae....

Former Congressman Pat Williams (D-Montana) spoke at the Montana Indian Education Association's legislative forum on Friday....

The Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe is waiting for the Bush administration to make a decision on its federal recognition petition....

The vast majority of computer systems at the Department of Interior are back online, according to a new court report....

The Creek Nation of Oklahoma is hoping a building boom translates into an economic one....

The Adopt-a-Native-Elder program was started to help a few Navajo elders sell their rugs but has since grown to include a large arts show that helps keep tradition alive....

Arizona's close governor race has been settled....

Voters in Arizona have narrowly approved a tribal gaming initiative....

The Tanana Chiefs Conference will lay off 10 employees by the end of the year to make up for a $6.5 million budget deficit....

Today's scheduled launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, featuring Chickasaw Nation tribal member John Herrington, has been called off due to an oxygen leak on the spacecraft....

The Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona has a memorial to tribal members killed while fighting to protect the United States....

The Department of Interior's latest quarterly report on trust reform is available online....

If you haven't participated in our very first BITAM survey, there is still time for you to get involved! We are taking your input to mark the one-year anniversary of the Bush administration's proposal to split up the Bureau of Indian Affairs of its core duties....

"The crowing from the Republicans' sweep of Congress is at a high pitch in my area....

One of the most powerful earthquakes in U.S....

The families of two couples killed by an ex-Bureau of Indian Affairs employee are asking a federal judge to force the agency to reform its driver policies....
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