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A Washington tribe who was knocked off the federal recognition list by the Bureau of Indian Affairs lost an attempt to reaffirm its treaty rights on Thursday....

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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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Already upset with an effort they say reflects little of their input, tribal leaders lashed out at the Bush administration on Thursday for withholding key information about the Department of Interior's pending reorganization....

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People "squanders its moral authority" by siding with a Connecticut tribe, The New London Day writes in an editorial today....

Senator Bill Frist (R-Tennessee), a close ally of President Bush, on Thursday said he would challenge Trent Lott for the Senate majority leader position....

Advisers to President Bush are proposing to require Internet service providers to help the federal government monitor the Internet, The New York Times reports....

The Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe of Connecticut signed a casino deal with the city of Bridgeport on Thursday....

The Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin has given final approval to a land swap with the state....

The Shawano County Board on Wednesday voted against a government-to-government agreement with the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans....

A proposal by the Upper Lake Pomo Tribe of California has drawn some high-powered opposition....

Two teens from a Yup'ik village in Alaska were rescued Thursday after spending more than 12 hours in a winter storm....

An emergency meeting was held on Thursday to discuss a $1.2 billion budget shortfall at the Bonneville Power Administration that tribes in the Pacific Northwest fear will lead to cuts in key salmon preservation programs....

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana are asserting sovereignty over their water rights on the Flathead Reservation....

The Washington Legislature is set to consider two bills next month that will put the Tulalip Tribes on equal footing in terms of tax treatment....

The announcement by a racist church that it plans to relocate to a city near the Wind River Reservation of Wyoming has bonded Indians and non-Indians against a white supremacist group....

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and four Navajo tribal members are suing an Arizona drive-in that forbade them from speaking Navajo on the job....

The 26th annual Lakota Nation Invitational is taking place this week in Rapid City, South Dakota, and is well known for its basketball tournament....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs was supposed to issue a preliminary decision on the federal status of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts by the end of this week....

The Bureau of Land Management is moving to seize more livestock it says belong to two Western Shoshone sisters in Nevada....

Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) wasn't informed about the Department of Interior's reprogramming request until last night, an aide said today....

Ken Hansen, chairman of the Samish Nation of Washington, criticized his colleagues for opposing his tribe's attempt to reaffirm its treaty rights....

Minnesota regulators on Thursday approved a hydroelectric power deal over the objections of the Pimicikamak Cree First Nation of Canada....

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The Department of Interior is moving ahead with its reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs despite mounting objections in Indian Country....

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb on Thursday wrote a letter to Seminole Nation Chief Jerry Haney to clarify the recognition of the tribe's governing body....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Thursday said that Indian gaming raises serious "concerns" that were the subject of a recent TIME magazine report....

Canada's Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development won't appeal a ruling that rescinded federal management of an Ojibwe First Nation....

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Outgoing Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb said there is "no basis" for Indian plaintiffs seeking an accounting of their funds to claim they are owed billions for more than a century of mismanagement....

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With a court-imposed deadline fast approaching, Bush administration officials this week shared some aspects of the trust reform plans they intend to submit to a federal judge....

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After eight months of work, the joint federal-tribal task force on trust reform has essentially been laid to rest with the two sides in disagreement over several key issues....

Donald Day, a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, is the new president of the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Minnesota....

Doctors told Wauneta Lone Wolf, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, that she wasn't going to live very long after being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer in January 2001....

Senator Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) on Wednesday said he was confident he would survive an early January vote on his position as majority leader....

"You may never have heard of Conrad Burns....

A vote to repeal a law that paved the way for Indian gaming in Connecticut has been put off until early next year....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs may decide as early as today on the federal recognition of the Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe, The Connecticut Post reported....

The Oneida Nation of New York turned a profit of nearly $70 million in the past year, according to a financial document obtained by The Syracuse Post-Standard....

Two Ojibwe bands are seeking to open a casino in St....

Will an Alaska Native corporate executive take Frank Murkowski's seat in the Senate? That question will be answered tomorrow....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is planning to build a spiritual center and new tribal cemetery, The New London Day reports....

A run-off will be held in February 2003 to determine the new chairman of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe of Minnesota....

Two teens are being held by authorities in Washington state for the murder of a man on the Spokane Reservation and the attempted murder of his wife....

A federal judge in Montana sentenced a businessman for bribing Bureau of Indian Affairs employees on the Crow Reservation....

Inmates from a corrections facility in Washington are helping the Stillaguamish Tribe restore the banks of the Stillaguamish River watershed....

Researchers from Oregon State University have released a report on the economic impact of the Klamath Basin controversy....

"Peabody's Arizona lease agreements with the Navajo and the Hopi were signed in the mid-1960s....

Members of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho are preparing to dedicate a memorial to four warriors who traveled on foot to St....

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued two rulings on Wednesday striking down challenges to a plan to store up to 44,000 tons of nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation of Utah....

The Supreme Court website has published the transcripts of oral arguments in the White Mountain Apache Tribe and Navajo Nation trust cases....

The Navajo Nation is paying to build a new hogan for a single mother in San Juan, New Mexico....

Zuni Pueblo Governor Malcolm Bowekaty was ousted by tribal voters on Tuesday, according to unofficial results cited by the Associated Press....

A seven-year-old boy is in protective custody in Minnesota after crashing a stolen car into a woman and her children on Tuesday....

The end of year reviews are coming in and The Washington Post unveiled its 2002 Midterm Election Winners and Losers today....

A prominent tribal leader's remarks about Hitler and the Jewish Holocaust have prompted debate in Canada about race in the Native community....

Police in Denver knew of serious threats against prominent American Indian Movement members but never informed the men, The Denver Post reports....

Native students at Harvard Medical School recently held a discussion forum centered on the film "Skins." Directed by Chris Eyre of "Smoke Signals" fame, the movie tells the story of two brothers on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota....

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Dissatisfied with the lack of information they have received from the Bush administration, a group of tribal leaders on Tuesday moved to halt a reorganization of Indian affairs within the Department of Interior....

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With his trademark cowboy hat in tow, a prominent tribal leader made an appearance on C-SPAN on Tuesday to discuss a controversial magazine report on Indian gaming....

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Neal McCaleb is set to depart his job as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs soon....

A Montana state study shows that American Indian infants and children die at higher rates than their counterparts....

A Republican-led efforts to repeal a law that paved the way for tribal casinos is up in the air, The Hartford Courant reports....

Minnesota state regulators must grant a full hearing to address complaints about the effects of a hydropower project on a Cree First Nation in Canada, The Minneapolis Star Tribune says in an editorial today....

"Are Indians being taken advantage of by investors? William Safire thinks so....

"Delphine Red Shirt's recent column in The Hartford Courant condemning mixed-blood Connecticut tribes as somehow being ‘less than Indian' brings into the light of day a sad fact among American Indian tribes—the scourge of intertribal prejudice by some Indians against Native Americans of mixed blood....

The American Civil Liberties Union has appealed a voting rights case on behalf of voters on the Blackfeet and Flathead reservations in Montana....

"I'm all for exposing anyone who might have mishandled a few votes in our last election, but the Republican lawyers' team investigation looks far more like a fishing expedition to find some unproven details they can blow out of proportion, while keeping people tightly wound and writing whiny or shrill letters to the Argus Leader....

Allegations of voter fraud in South Dakota could intimidate Native Americans and keep them from going to the polls, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial today....

The Navajo Nation's sovereignty doesn't outweigh public safety, The Farmington Daily-Times says in an editorial today....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut plans to host a high-stakes charity bingo game to raise money for a local high school....

Indian women in central Mexico have launched a successful campaign against the sale of alcohol in their communities....

State, federal and tribal officials are investigating a fire that occurred near Whiteclay, Nebraska....

An Alaska Native regional corporation is trying to restrict spending, The Anchorage Daily News reports....

Indian students at a high school in South Dakota are getting ready to make their first public appearance....

Billy Mills, an Olympic gold medalist and a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, spoke at a sports tournament in South Dakota on Tuesday....

The Eastern Band of Cherokees of North Carolina are conducting an audit of their tribal rolls, The Waynesville Smoky Mountain News reports....

A former chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Canada's largest inter-tribal organization, apologized on Tuesday for remarks that embraced the Jewish Holocaust....

The only American Indian in the Senate has come to the defense of Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) over racially divisive remarks made by the incoming majority leader....

The Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado swore in a new chairman on Tuesday....

A federal judge in Florida dismissed charges against three men accused of stealing $2.7 million from the Seminole Tribe....

Three children from the Pauingassi First Nation in Manitoba were taken into custody recently and held naked in a drunk tank for 24 hours, CBC reports....

"While the relationship between the U.S....

Home > News > Headlines Printer friendly version Opinion: Indians victimized by Norton WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2002 "History may remember 2002 as the year of the accounting scandals....

A senior Department of Interior official who appeared to defy a court order to testify about her role in Indian trust reform stormed out of a federal courtroom in tears on Tuesday....

Residents of a Yup'ik village in Alaska are going through some hard times due to a fire that destroyed the main store and post office, The Anchorage Daily News reports....

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Tribal leaders on Monday expressed uneasiness about the Bush administration's latest proposal to reorganize Indian affairs within the Department of Interior....

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Inquiring tribal leaders wanted to know....

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With the death knoll sounding for the joint federal-tribal task force on trust reform, tribes and the Department of Interior are looking for ways to achieve what almost seems like an unattainable goal: meaningful consultation....

Outgoing Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye will be out of a job, and out of home, next month....

Connecticut's two tribal casinos reported results of their slot machine earnings for the month of November....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton signed an order on Monday to force the state of California to abide by a multi-state Colorado River water rights agreement....

"The Bureau of Indian Affairs was established in 1824....

The Navajo Nation Tribal Utility Authority has a new office building in Shiprock, New Mexico....

Indian students from North Dakota are joining their counterparts in New York City for a musical performance....

President Bush signed into law a bill that authorizes a water improvement project on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation in northern New Mexico....

A Montana businessman pleaded innocent in federal court on Monday to submitting false claims to the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

Ousted Seminole chairman Jim Billie testifed in federal court on Monday about his role in the Florida tribe's risky business deals....

First Nations leaders in Saskatchewan are calling on David Ahenakew, an Aboriginal leader, to apologize for remarks he made in defense of the Holocaust....

President Bush will no longer defend incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) over racially divisive remarks he made about segregation, according to news accounts....

Another large land-based tribal nation is opposing the Bush administration's proposed reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

"Washington Journal," a C-SPAN program, will feature a discussion on Indian gaming today....

"Imagine this news headline: "Dirty Dealing: U.S....

A Bureau of Indian Affairs contract firefighter accused of helping to start the largest fire in Arizona history was ruled incompetent to stand trial....

Some Oklahoma tribes have "stepped over the lines" by offering legally questionable casino games, the new chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission said in an interview with The Daily Oklahoman....

Republican attorneys drafted pre-worded affidavits alleging voter fraud among Indian voters in South Dakota and did nothing to verify the claims, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports....

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal of a land dispute involving the Fort Mohave Tribe and the Colorado River....

A federal judge has scheduled a hearing this morning to address an apparent attempt by a senior Department of Interior official to avoid questioning about efforts to fix the broken Indian trust....

A court investigator for the Indian trust fund lawsuit said on Monday he was concerned about the Internet habits of senior Bureau of Indian Affairs officials....

Attorneys for 500,000 Indian beneficiaries on Monday said they no longer needed to question outgoing Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb on his destruction of e-mail....

"My mother, Dorothy, turned 86 on Monday, and the family gathered in White Shield, N.D., over the weekend to celebrate....

Wyoming Governor Jim Geringer rejected a federal mediator's recommendation to allow casino gaming on the Wind River Reservation....

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Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb told a court investigator recently that he refused to sign a legal affidavit drafted by his second-in-command because he said it contained inaccurate statements about his own destruction of government e-mails....

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Senior Bureau of Indian Affairs officials have been circumventing a court order by using the public Internet to transmit government-related documents, according to information uncovered as part of an expanding probe into Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb....

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Bush administration challenges trust fund contempt ruling, a Miss Navajo Nation gets sent to jail for drug-running, Indian gaming officials sworn in, and court rejects Leonard Peltier appeal....

Country music superstar Dolly Parton has partnered with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to distribute books to Indian children....

South Dakota attorney general Mark Barnett on Friday discussed the results of his investigation into alleged voter fraud among American Indians....

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) was described as "weakened" by the chamber's second-ranking Republican, prompting talk of an impending ouster for racially divisive comments he made over a week ago....

Former vice president Al Gore announced on Sunday that he will not seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004....

A new film and book update are reminding Australian's of their not so recent racist past....

After he lost his re-election bid to a candidate with tribal support, former senator Slade Gorton, Republican of Washington, said he felt helpless....

The verdict is in....

The Lakota Nation Invitational tournament will be held in Rapid City, South Dakota, this week....

Indian gaming has not helped the majority of Indian Country, The Daily Oklahoman says in an editorial....

TIME runs the second part of its special report on Indian gaming this week, focusing on the lobbying that goes on behind the scenes of the federal government....

Some members of the Innu First Nation of Labrador, have made the move to their new home at Natuashish....

The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations of Canada condemned remarks by a tribal leader who said Hitler was right to "fry" the Jewish people....

The federal judge overseeing the trust fund lawsuit rejected an attempt by the Bush administration to delay the testimony of top Department of Interior officials....

The largest tribe in the country is speaking out against the Bush administration's proposed reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

"So, what do YOU want for Christmas? Never mind that....

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb will testify a second time about his destruction of e-mails in contravention of court orders and government policy....
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