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The Department of Justice is refusing to allow top Indian trust officials to appear before a court investigator accused of disparaging Secretary of Interior Gale Norton....

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The Supreme Court is set to decide whether the state of Nevada can divert more water from a prized desert lake over the objections of the federal government and a tribe fighting to save a sacred species of fish....

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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....

Disputes over the gathering of shellfish by 15 tribes will be handled by one federal magistrate....

The casino owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation is being sued by a former worker for $13.8 million....

Documents the White House released to a Congressional committee details greater ties to bankrupt company Enron that Bush administration officials previously acknowledged, according to The Washington Post....

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of President Bush's pick to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals....

The Mexican government owes the United States 456 billion gallons of water and is asking President Bush for a $420 million loan to help pay the debt back....

FBI Director Robert Mueller III has ordered an inquiry to address allegations of a botched investigation of a September 11 terrorist suspect....

Students at a Wisconsin high school voted this week on a replacement for their scrapped "Indians" logo and team name....

Richard Hart: "Referring to a nationality or race by skin color has been used as a derogatory comment, in my experience, predominately by white Christian males....

A sweat lodge at the University of Montana is located on property that doesn't belong to the school....

Nebraska state officials toured the border town of Whiteclay on Thursday....

A community project five years in the making was dedicated at a school on the Mille Lacs Ojibwe Reservation in Minnesota on Thursday....

Members of two Maine tribes are wrapping up a 33-mile walk in support of their sovereignty....

Inupiat Eskimo leaders vow to continue their traditional subsistence whale hunt in the face of an international setback....

The top aide to Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb was fired today and has requested the U.S....

The International Whaling Commission on Thursday extended the gray whale quota to the Makah Nation of Washington....

The Pentagon has begun contacting Navy veterans who were exposed to chemical agents during the 1960s....

An Oklahoma man believes he owns a walking stick that belonged to Apache leader Geronimo....

The top aide to Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb has refused to resign, The Washington Post reports today....

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb is playing the diplomat of sorts by calling a meeting with two tribal leaders who claim to control the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma....

The Apache Tribe of Oklahoma wants a federal judge to declare a parcel of land as Indian Country....

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Tribal leaders expressed concern on Wednesday about a provision in a trust reform bill that would define who is and who isn't an Indian....

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Montana state officials have begun killing bison that wander out of Yellowstone National Park without testing for a deadly cattle disease at the center of the controversial battle....

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A top aide to Attorney General John Ashcroft and a figure in an Iraqi loan scandal during the first Bush administration was nominated to a spot on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday....

The House Resources Committee on Wednesday approved a bill to sell a parcel of federal land to the Mormon Church....

The FBI agent who warned of possible airplane hijackings by followers of terrorist Osama bin Laden is downplaying his memo as routine....

The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee voted along party lines on Wednesday to subpoena information from the White House regarding potential contacts with bankrupt company Enron....

The Department of Justice on Tuesday filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force....

A New Mexico man has changed his man about withdrawing a guilty plea for beating a Navajo teenager to death....

About 20 law professors were in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to oppose one of President Bush's judicial picks, Judy Sarasohn of the Washington Post reports in her "Special Interests" column....

A jury in Alabama convicted an ex-KKK member guilty on for murdering four African-American girls in a 1963 church bombing....

A member of a federal energy advisory panel quit after President Bush reversed a campaign pledge on the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions....

A federal appeals court on Tuesday stayed three court orders affecting the flow of water on the Missouri River....

The Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness is holding its annual pow-wow this weekend....

Students at a Washington high school staged a walk-out on Wednesday to get their their "Indians" mascot back....

The International Whaling Commission rejected a request from the United States and Russia to extend a five-year quota on Native whale hunting....

"I was both excited and dismayed to read about the retreat held last month by members of the Congressional Black, Hispanic and Asian Pacific Caucuses....

The future of Indian gaming in Arizona will now be decided by state voters....

Voters of the Warm Springs Tribes of Oregon have approved a new casino by 75 percent....

The Grand Forks Herald in an editorial today calls on the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota to reform its constitution in order to resolve a "messy" situation....

Some candidates for attorney general in Idaho oppose expansion of gaming by states....

Wayne Smith, the top aide to Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb, has been asked to resign today or face being fired, The Washington Post reports....

The Tanana Chiefs Conference is holding a three-day meeting to focus on wellness issues affecting 41 Native villages in the interior region of Alaska....

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The Department of Interior's information technology systems could be plunged into chaos again based on the findings of a team of federal computer security experts....

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The Navajo Nation has urged the Supreme Court to reject the Bush administration's challenge to a $600 million royalty ruling....

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Tens of thousands of Native Americans who lack health insurance face additional risks from life-threatening diseases, according to a comprehensive federally-supported study released on Tuesday....

Two tribes in South Dakota have joined a multi-state battle over the levels of water in the Missouri River....

A Senate panel today will vote on a subpoena to compel the White House to turn over information related to its contacts with the bankrupt company Enron....

The Department of Justice will sue the state of Florida for alleged voting rights violations that occurred during the 2000 presidential election....

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) on Tuesday said he would introduce legislation to create an independent panel to review the September 11 terrorist attacks....

An aide to a committee headed by Sen....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton will be a featured guest at the Montana Republican Party Platform Convention next month....

A federal appeals court on Tuesday declined to reimburse former secretary of interior Bruce Babbitt for all of the legal fees incurred as a result of an investigation into a controversial tribal casino proposal....

Plans for a new office complex for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut have gained final approval....

Scientists have discovered in Guatemala a huge source of jade used by the Olmec and Mayan civilizations of Meso-America....

A legislative panel in Rhode Island approved a bill to put the Narragansett Tribe's proposed casino on the November ballot....

Animal-rights activists are appealing a federal judge's decision not to halt the whale hunt of the Makah Nation of Washington....

A paper company held a ceremony on Tuesday to return a sacred island to the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine....

The Alaska Legislature called an end to its work on Tuesday, leaving public talks on subsistence by the wayside....

The Wall Street Journal features the office of Sen....

Kidnapped and sold at a young age, married into an abusive relationship soon after and dead at age 25, Sacagawea is getting paid back with a golden dollar coin that no one seems to want, The Daily Oklahoman laments in an editorial today....

The Department of Interior has determined that Mount Graham in Arizona is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places....

The state of Kansas is moving forward on an highway project after finding no remains of Native Americans at a wetlands near Haskell Indian Nations University....

A grassroots group based on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska held a ceremony on Tuesday to start work on a healing garden....

Democrats in a Connecticut city on Tuesday rejected a challenge to their delegate from author and Congressional hopeful Jeff Benedict....

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Tribal leaders and Native activists seeking to protect hundreds of sacred sites are taking their concerns to Congress, where they have found a receptive voice among Indian Country advocates....

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It was easy to see why it took Special Trustee Tom Slonaker a few days to respond to a memo asking him to cooperate with the Department of Interior's ongoing court battle over the Indian trust....

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma has been awarded a unique contract from the Indian Health Service....

Two federal agencies on Monday issued a revised biological opinion on a project to dredge the Columbia River to make way for bigger ships....

A woman who claims to be the leader of a 3-member California tribe is challenging a Bureau of Indain Affairs ruling....

It hasn't been a good year for Montana Gov....

Five people in Oklahoma have been charged with illegal gambling at a casino purported to be on tribal land....

Arizona's gaming tribes have waited for weeks as lawmakers debate gaming compacts they signed with Gov....

The Arizona Legislature on Monday cleared the way for tribes to host a $350 million Arizona Cardinal football stadium....

A 27-year-old Native man was one of three employees killed at an Arizona fast food restaurant on Sunday night....

Native American activists and their supporters on Monday protested rice research taking place at the University of Minnesota....

During a closed meeting on Monday, FBI director Robert S....

The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island still wants to repeal a provision in federal affecting its chances of gaming....

Two Maine tribes are going to hand over internal documents to paper companies this week after marching 33 miles to protest the order which requires them to do so....

A school district has rejected a request to drop two Indian-themed mascots....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has dropped plans to privatize the worst-performing Indian schools....

The Denver Post in an editorial today calls on a Colorado school to get rid of its "Fightin' Reds" mascot....

The traditional three-chief system of the St....

Victory was fleeting for fans of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' web site. After it was restored last week, it is now "Temporarily Unavailable." No one knows for sure when it will be up, a Department of Interior spokesperson told The Denver Post....

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska is going to federal court next month to prevent further action by the state of Kansas in a dispute over taxes....

Congratulations are due to Native America Calling host and proud father Harlan McKosato for being recently inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa chapter of his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma....

Hotels and resorts on the Yucatan Peninsula of southern Mexico are pumping raw sewage into underground caves that contain Mayan artifacts, according to those who have explored them....

"Diabetes on reservations is so common that if you lived there, you would be more likely to become diabetic than you would be to catch the flu during flu season....

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A federal judge and attorneys for Secretary of Interior Gale Norton traded barbs last week over the Bush administration's efforts to fix the historically mismanaged Indian trust system....

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The letter was terse and to the point....

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dispute over leadership of Seminole Nation dies down, trust reform monitor defends work amid attack, and courts weight powers of tribes against states....

The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma is seeking 250 acres of trust land for a $100 million casino project....

The Alaska Legislature began a special session on subsistence this past Friday but it may soon end....

Residents of a Maine town turned out overwhelmingly on Saturday to reject a proposed casino gaming....

The Seneca Nation of New York received a warm welcome from the city of Buffalo, whose council is rescinding a resolution that endorse a non-tribal casino....

A teacher on the Navajo Reservation and a candidate for president say the tribe isn't doing enough to support the education of its children....

The Green Party of Minnesota has endorsed Oglala Lakota tribal member Ed McGaa for U.S....

Vice President Dick Cheney is rejecting requests to allow Congress to view a private and highly sensitive intelligence briefing which warned of airplane hijackings by terrorists....

Senator Byron L....

The Navajo Nation Council is holding a special session tomorrow....

A federal judge in Washington on Friday refused to halt the Makah Nation's whale hunt until a lawsuit filed by animal-rights activists can be heard....

Klamath tribal chairman Allen Foreman criticized a celebration of non-Indian farmers in the Klamath Basin....

Lingering questions over a California tribe's multi-million dollar partnership with a museum have delayed approval of the deal, The Los Angeles Times reports today....

With farm-fed fish encroaching on their market, Pacific Northwest tribes are seeking ways to expand sales of wild salmon....

An independent review board has recommended against funding a salmon restoration project of the Colville Tribes and a Washington irrigation district....

Activists and tribes have taken aim at corporate policies towards Native Americans for years....

A group called Coloradans Against Ethnic Stereotyping in Colorado protested the "Fighting Reds" mascot of a local high school Sunday....

Navajo students in New Mexico have written a bilingual book on the Long Walk....

Al Kamen of The Washington Post is holding an "In the Loop" contest that should interest Indianz.Com readers because they are known to love free gifts....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's defense team filed last Thursday its response to the most recent report by court monitor Joseph S....

The Supreme Court will decide next week whether to accept its second Indian trust case of the term and potentially limit the extent of the government's responsibilities to tribes....

"Something's gotta give, in order for me to spend more time at the easel. And since the Bush administration won't let me clone myself, one of the things that will have to give is this farce of a column....

The Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity are closing their ministry on the Tohono O'odham Reservation in Arizona....
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