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The Bush administration's drug czar on Thursday unveiled a new set of ads targeting extremely high rates of drug use among Native American youth....

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Public safety trumps tribal sovereignty, a divided Minnesota Supreme Court ruled 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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A federal judge has dealt the state of Kansas a setback in its ongoing tax fight against the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska....

The Department of Interior on Thursday released a revised assessment of the oil in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska....

Research published in today's issue of Science suggests a link between the rise of dinosaurs and a meteor which hit the earth 200 million years ago....

A full panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that incendiary tactics of anti-abortion activists are unconstitutional....

Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham at a Senate hearing on Thursday said the Yucca Mountain facility in Nevada might need to be expanded to handle all the nation's nuclear waste....

A joint environmental impact study prepared by the Department of Interior and the state of Montana received a negative rating by the Environmental Protection Agency....

The White House on Thursday sought to dispel criticism that the Bush administration failed to act on warnings preceding September 11's terrorist attacks....

The Bush administration is making two decisions affecting national forests where Alaska Native corporations have interests....

Federal statistics released on Thursday show a decline in teen smoking....

The Department of Interior is handing over a set of run-down school buildings to the 19 Pueblo tribes that own Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico....

An oil company based in the United States has withdrawn plans to drill on traditional Indian territory in Colombia....

A draft biological opinion by the National Marine Fisheries Service concludes that coho salmon in the Klamath Basin won't get enough water....

The chairman of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota is being locked out of office....

The Montana Supreme Court this week refused to dismiss a case involving the reach of state wildlife laws to reservations....

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Richard Clifton to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals....

Federal officials allowed an oil well to be drilled right in the center of a prehistoric Modoc village in Oregon but never knew of the site's significance....

The Affiliated Tribe of Northwest Indians held its annual meeting in Idaho this week....

A bill to approve Indian gaming in Arizona moved ahead on Thursday after some amendments....

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The list every tribal leader wants to get on is not who will replace Montie Deer over at the National Indian Gaming Commission but the Education Facilities Replacement Construction Priority List, the Bureau of Indian Affairs' guide to the worst schools in its system....

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The Bush administration won't try to privatize the worst-performing Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb said on Wednesday....

A federal government attorney is urging the state of New York to negotiate a land claim settlement with the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans....

A controversial referendum aimed at gauging how voters in British Columbia, Canada, feel about treaty negotiations with First Nations has flopped....

The Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado on Wednesday joined other partners of Enron in asking a federal bankruptcy judge to remove a legal firm tied to the failed company....

In response to charges that the Bush administration has not been enforcing the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is looking to bring lawsuits against major polluters....

President Bush was informed last fall of a potential airplane hijacking plot organized by terrorist Osama bin Laden....

Indian gaming is being cited as a contributing the positive gains on Wisconsin's reservations....

A run-off this summer will determine who leads the Red Lake Ojibwe Nation in Minnesota....

A school board in New York voted last week to replace its Indian mascot and logo....

A bill that would outlaw all racial- or ethnic-based mascots at public schools exempts reservations....

A group in New York wants a school district to get rid of its Indian chief mascot....

The Federal Subsistence Board has taken some recent actions....

A Connecticut town may be forced to reduce the amount of money it spends to oppose the federal recognition of two tribes....

Army Secretary and former Enron executive Thomas White will testify on his knowledge of the company's role in California's energy crisis....

An Alaska Native corporation is losing money on the world largest open-pit zinc mine....

Two brothers from the Crow Reservation in Montana have filed a lawsuit against an auto dealership that is named in an indictment involving Crow Chairman Clifford Bird in Ground....

Isleta Pueblo Governor Alvino Lucero said he wants his tribe's elementary school placed on the Bureau of Indian Affairs priority construction list....

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a Missouri woman was discriminated against because she held Native American beliefs....

An effort by the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians to bail out a failing California museum has drawn complaints....

A special session to address Indian gaming in Arizona is about to be cut short by Gov....

The legal and public relations battle over the whale hunt of the Makah Nation has claimed one of its most visible members....

he North Dakota Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a county can condemn land owned by the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe....

Three Kansas tribes are hosting a wellness conference at Haskell Indian Nations University....

A New Mexico man who pleaded guilty to beating a Navajo teenager to death wants to change his plea....

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma is trying to return to normalcy after a dispute over leadership shut down the tribe for several days....

A bronze statue of an Indian warrior is ready for its public debut in Oklahoma....

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The Bush administration's emphasis on education takes a spin in Indian Country this week with two top officials pushing construction and reform of tribal schools....

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The Bush administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow a tribe to implement potentially strict water quality standards over the objections of the state of Wisconsin....

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In the past, the summer movie season didn't kick off until Memorial Day Weekend....

Native American students in Washington are protesting a delay involving their school's "Indians" mascot....

The Republican party raised $33 million at a fund-raiser in Washington, DC, last night....

The Food and Drug Administration is seeking public comment on whether certain policies violate the First Amendment....

The Environmental Protection Agency is revoking an exemption granted to farmers in California who were allowed to skirt provisions of the Clean Air Act....

Connecticut's two tribes took in more than $123 million on slot machines in April 2002....

The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation of Arizona could play host to a $350 million football stadium if current plans fall through....

An Arizona legislative panel held a hearing on Tuesday to discuss stalled tribal gaming compacts....

The Narragansett Tribe has reduced the size of its proposed $400 million casino....

The Bush administration is backing off a proposal to ease regulations which require lead testing of low-income children....

Voters of the Seneca Nation on Monday narrowly approved a casino compact with the state of New York....

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals this week heard oral arguments in a case affecting taxation of land owns by the Oneida Nation....

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the race-based admissions policies of the University of Michigan Law School....

First he was in....

A whaling crew was rescued in Alaska on Sunday after an ice shelf cracked off and began to drift into the Arctic Ocean....

The Fort Belknap Tribes of Montana will submit their own voting plan for a local county because they weren't consulted properly....

Several Washington tribal leaders are questioning the Puyallup Tribe's new per capita payments....

The Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma is building a 6,032-square-foot health care facility for tribal members and other Native Americans....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's deputy chief of staff knew so little about the Department of Interior that she had to find out its duties by reading them online, Al Kamen of The Washington Post reports today....

A federal-state partnership in Alaska is aimed at combating fake Native art....

Fort Belknap tribal officials are welcoming the construction of an $11 million bombing test range near their reservation....

An ancient Modoc village and burial site has been desecrated at the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon....

Maryland Governor Parris Glendening on Tuesday vetoed legislation to require the state to act on a tribe's recognition claim within 120 days....

"Rod Steiner recalled the racism he encountered in the 1940s when he competed as a boxer....

he Department of Interior supports the intent of a proposed sale of land to the Mormon Church but questions whether the potential impact on other sacred sites....

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In case you haven't noticed, the Bureau of Indian Affairs web site is back up and running! The scary thing is that it looks exactly the same as it did when U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth on December 5, 2001, ordered the Department of Interior to protect Indian trust systems....

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The United Nations is holding its first ever forum on indigenous people this week, more than eighty years after Hopi tribal elders sought a global audience for their issues....

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The court official watching over the Bush administration won't rescind a highly critical report that a government attorney claimed was filled with unfounded allegations against Secretary of Interior Gale Norton....

A group called Arapaho People's Movement for Positive Change is seeking to reform the way the Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming does business....

The Oneida Nation of New York is adding two golf courses to its casino resort....

The US Commission on Civil Rights will seat a Bush appointee pending review of its case by the Supreme Court....

The Bush administration continues to support the creation of an independent Palestinian state....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is working with several neighbors on a regional water project....

A Bureau of Indian Affairs police officer from is free without bond while he faces charges of stealing a firearm while working on the Crow Reservation in Montana....

The Seminole Tribe of Florida broke ground on Monday on a $315 million casino resort and hotel project The tribe has partnered with Hard Rock to create a casino to replace an existing one....

Ten years ago this week, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe opened a casino in Minnesota....

The Absentee Shawnee Tribe has entered into a tax payment agreement with a local county....

The tribes on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana are reviewing plans to change how commissioners in a local county are elected....

The Navajo Nation Statutory Reform Convention began in New Mexico on Monday....

A Seneca Nation tribal court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit challenging a vote on a gaming compact with the state of New York....

Floods have hit a number of villages in the interior part of Alaska, forcing evacuations and leading to emergency watches....

The Gila River Tribe of Arizona has teamed up with a restaurant chain to offer tribal students an exercise in food management as well an opportunity to earn some cash....

A paper company is handing over a 25-acre island to the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine....

In April, an Environmental Protection Agency official gave a Department of Interior coalbed methane drilling study the worst rating possible....

"There is a controversy smoldering in Indian country about whether or not women should be allowed to sit at the drum and sing at a powwow....

Mississippi's Attorney General will no longer provide legal services to the Mississippi State Tax Commission in a dispute involving the Choctaw Tribe....

Recognized Seminole Nation of Oklahoma Chief Jerry Haney says nearly 30 tribal bank accounts have zero balances....

The chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana has been stripped of his authority over tribal finances while conspiracy and theft charges in federal court are pending....

Voters in Arizona will have at least three gaming-related proposal to consider when they go to the polls in November....

An attorney for the Duwamish Tribe of Washington says a lawsuit is probably the next step in the fight for federal recognition....

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It's not called the Trust Asset and Accounting Management System (TAAMS) anymore....

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Leadership of Seminole Nation of Oklahoma in doubt, Bush administration scrutinized on trust reform, Congress considers terminating treaty rights, and House approves Yucca Mountain waste site....

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In the waning days of the Clinton administration, a top Department of Interior official concluded that a Kansas tribe's land claim was "credible" enough to warrant a friendly resolution....

The grave site of Vice President Charles Curtis and his wife will be refurbished....

The New York Times throws its support behind a bill to reform the 1872 Mining Law, saying Secretary of Interior Gale Norton gutted environmental protections the Clinton administration implemented....

In an editorial today, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader praises several Dakota tribes for meeting recently to address treaty, land and other issues....

New York homeowners are putting themselves at risk of eviction by appealing the Cayuga Nation land claim, a tribal attorney has said....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has affirmed an earlier ruling which determined who controls a tiny California tribe....

Two Maine tribes are withdrawing from an agreement over control of water quality in Indian Country....

The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island is thanking a Connecticut town for allowing tribal members to watch over a construction project....

The Alaska Legislature starts a special session on subsistence this week....

A new health care program is reaching out to the Mayan community of south Florida....

"Stroll through any rack of greeting cards today and you'll see these blatantly stupid offerings for Mother's Day....

Having exhausted its administrative appeals, the Duwamish Tribe of Washington is considering a lawsuit to gain federal recognition....

New Mexico will soon get its second statue in the National Statutory Hall in Washington, DC....

Cochiti Lake in New Mexico won't be drained fully this year in order to protect an endangered fish but the proposal is still drawing opposition....

A Native veterans organization is traveling to the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana to educate others about benefits available for veterans....

Roger Willie auditioned for the upcoming MGM release "Windtalkers," a film about the Marines assigned to protect the Navajo Code Talkers, on a whim....

A proposed sale of federal land to the Mormon Church could set a precedent for the protection of sacred sites....

Members of the Seneca Nation of New York will be going to the polls tomorrow to vote on a casino gaming compact....

Clifford Bird in Ground, the chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana, pleaded guilty today in federal court for his involvement in a car fraud scheme....

A survey conducted on behalf of a Connecticut newspaper has found support for a tribal casino in Bridgeport....

The Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado has increased the rent at its arena, causing the hosts of a motorcycle event to look for another home....
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