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Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby defended the legality of his sprawling Oklahoma casino empire this week against complaints of improper Bureau of Indian Affairs land approvals....

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astern Pequot Tribe and Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Tribe - Congratulations on your new federal status! It's time to work out any differences and fight the state of Connecticut together....

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A federal magistrate today ordered the outgoing members of the National Indian Gaming Commission to discuss settling a dispute over a controversial casino game....

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A House subcommittee this week sharply curbed an historical accounting owed to more than 300,000 American Indians....

Two people who were participating in a New Age "vision quest" died in a California "death lodge" last week....

A New York school district voted this week to retire its Indian mascot....

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the use of public money to send children to religious and private schools....

Bill Hewitt, the founder of a Indian-themed tourist attraction died in Washington on Monday at the age of 85....

The Norwich Bulletin in an editorial today says any future tribal casino deals should include more money for local communities in Connecticut....

Two tribes in Connecticut are hoping their case for federal recognition will be helped by their state status....

A group called Connecticut Citizens Against Casinos has called for a halt to all pending federal recognition decisions....

A joint House-Senate conference committee on an energy bill has already run into some heavy debate, thanks to Rep....

A subsidiary of Calista Corp., an Alaska Native regional corporation, has signed a $1.1 billion deal to provide aerospace engineering to the Army....

Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) this week suggested it was time to end a welfare exception for Alaska Native villages....

The Supreme Court today denied a request by a fired Indian Health Service to have her position reinstated....

Students in New Mexico are learning traditional Pueblo farming techniques....

Navajo Nation Council Speaker Ed Begay can't run for president of his tribe, a review board has determined....

The 4H program in Virginia has removed references to Indian culture, The Washington Times reports today....

The Jicarilla Apache Nation of New Mexico signed an emergency water deal on Thursday to help local communities deal with drought conditions. The tribe agreed to provide up to up to 6,000 acre-feet of water....

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The Idaho State Board of Education on Thursday denied accreditation to the Coeur d'Alene Tribal School....

The massive Rodeo-Chediski fire continues to burn on the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona....

An employee of the Mescalero Apache Nation has been charged with starting a fire on the southern New Mexico reservation....

Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) lawsuit, is starting an Indian Country outreach effort....

Students in Alaska are helping archaeologists unearth an Athabaskan village that was abandoned earlier this century....

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A senior government official, who swore in court declarations that he is in charge of Indian trust, has refused to questions about the Department of Interior's obligations to tribes and individual Indians....

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Tribal leaders on Wednesday insisted on the creation of an independent federal commission to ensure proper management of billions of dollars in Indian trust funds....

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Federal regulators have approved hundreds of pages of rules affecting the $10 billion Indian gaming industry despite lingering questions over their legality....

Navajo ranchers in Arizona dealing with a drought got a gift of hay from the Colorado River Tribes....

Anti-Indian sentiments have resurfaced as a massive fire in Arizona consumes more than 400,000 acres....

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional....

Voters of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana chose council members on Tuesday....

A Christian group has come to the Navajo Nation to remodel and repair Navajo homes....

A poultry farm in Oklahoma is the target of a lawsuit which says a rancher didn't obtain proper permits from the state and a tribe....

A New York hotel doesn't plan on selling to the Seneca Nation so the tribe can open a casino....

The Colorado River Indian Tribes of Arizona dispute the results of a gaming study that concludes the state will receive less money than anticipated....

A House subcommittee has approved language in a funding bill to give the Department of Interior a great role in the restoration of the Florida Everglades....

An unidentified group has set up a web site that claims to be the future online home for an Indian casino in Connecticut....

Dead Indian Creek in Oklahoma will be getting a name change in response to complaints it was offensive to Native Americans....

A Florida man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing money from the Miccosukee Tribe....

The lead plaintiff in the billion dollar trust fund lawsuit rallied with tribal leaders yesterday to support independent oversight of Indian assets....

The Department of Agriculture in a recent report recommended a 4H program eliminate its use of Indian themes and symbols....

A Navajo Nation tribal member hopes to stimulate the economy in the Four Corners area of New Mexico by opening a country-western dance hall....

A member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma might run for Congress if Representative JC Watts (R-Okla.) retires, Roll Call reports today....

The House Interior Appropriations subcommittee has restored $3 million in funds to the United Tribes Technical College....

Two Florida men were charged on Wednesday for knowingly removing and reburying human remains dating as far back as 2,000 years....

An Eskimo man from Alaska died on Wednesday during a gray whale hunt....

Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) lawsuit, will meet with Navajo beneficiaries next week....

A federal jury in Montana has indicted five Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service workers on fraud and conspiracy charges, The Billings Gazette reports....

A Washington tribal jury has found a former Confederated Colville Tribes council member guilty of fraudulent credit card use and misuse of public funds....

Eight state-recognized tribes in Virginia are urging the University of Virginia not to take part in a telescope project....

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A federal judge on Tuesday sided with the state of Texas and ordered the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe to shut down its casino....

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Montana cannot tax Indian-owned businesses located on reservations, the state Supreme Court ruled last week....

The Crow Tribe of Montana has signed an exploration drilling deal with a Colorado company....

A federal law designed to prevent the purchase of guns by domestic abusers hasn't always worked, The Washington Post reports today....

Research published in this week's issue of Psychological Bulletin suggests that spanking children is not good for them....

A Connecticut town doesn't want its old people to go on casino trips....

The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation of Arizona still wants a chance to host a $350 million football stadium....

A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a Montana man for a death on the Crow Reservation....

The FBI is investigating Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman, The Denver Post reports today....

A 16-year-old member of the Crow Tribe of Montana has his artwork on display at the U.S....

Two members of the Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming are seeking state office....

A federal grand jury this week indicted the Seminole Tribe of Florida's former top administrator, a disgraced cop described by associates and others as belligerent and ruthless....

A man from an Inupiat Eskimo village in Alaska died in police custody on Tuesday....

Employees fired by the Crow Tribe of Montana are trying to find a court who will hear their claims....

Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) told a Washington newspaper that he doesn't understand why using Indian names and symbols for fake ceremonies might be offensive....

One Nipmuc tribe in Massachusetts is working to reverse a negative decision on its federal recognition request....

The New London Day in an editorial today says the Bureau of Indian Affairs' decision to recognize the Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut is "strange." The paper cites dissent among factions of the tribe and McCaleb's decision to recognize the two groups as one entity as potentially troublesome....

State and local officials in Connecticut plan to appeal a decision to recognize the Eastern Pequot Tribe....

Although a three-hundred year relationship with the state of Connecticut played an important factor, "significant" evidence uncovered by two Pequot tribes bolstered their bid for federal recognition, according to Bureau of Indian Affairs documents released yesterday....

A fire which started on the White Mountain Apache Reservation has grown to the size of Los Angeles....

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Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb's recognition of the Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut has raised hope -- and concern -- that other groups will gain federal status even with holes in their tribal petitions....

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Major crime in the United States rose by 2 percent last year, according to FBI statistics released on Monday, reversing a decade-long trend of falling rates that largely bypassed Indian Country....

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The Bush administration made history on Monday with a decision to recognize two Connecticut groups as one Indian tribe....

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the death penalty can only be imposed by juries and not judges....

The Department of Justice is observing an election in Utah today to ensure the voting rights of Navajo tribal members are respected....

The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Connecticut is playing host an a show The New London Day says is "intended to dispel and distort preconceived notions of American Indian art." "Art in 2 Worlds: The Native American Fine Art Invitational 1983-1997" is on loan from the Heard Museum in Phoenix....

A bill introduced by Nevada's senators to protect federal lands excludes an area considered sacred to the Paiutes....

The Navajo Nation recently recognized 50 tribal members who live in tribal housing....

A Montana man accused of involuntary manslaughter went to trial for a April 2001 accident on the Crow Reservation....

The Norwich Bulletin in an editorial today praises the Bureau of Indian Affairs for developing a computer system to aid federal recognition decisions....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today calls for the Bush administration to support economic stimulus programs in Indian Country....

Environmentalists fear a proposed nuclear waste site on a Utah reservation could become a more permanent solution....

Wisconsin Governor Scott McCallum has recommended three themes for the state's commemorative quarter....

Representative Mary Bono (R-Calif.) has introduced a bill to recognized the San Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians of California....

The Nebraska Legislature might fund a special deputy sheriff to patrol the border town of Whiteclay....

Construction of a memorial to the Indian warriors who fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn is finally underway....

Two ex-employees of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and an associate were indicted on Monday for allegedly embezzling $2.77 million in tribal funds....

A community on the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona was saved from the growing Rodeo-Chediski fire that has engulfed more than 330,000 acres of land....

A federal judge on Monday adopted the recommendation of a magistrate and allowed three Oklahoma tribes to continue operating a controversial casino game....

The Department of Agriculture is investigating the use of American Indian symbols and tribal names a 4H club in West Virginia....

The state of South Dakota filed court papers on Monday accusing the Yankton Sioux Tribe of once wanting to develop land tribal members now seek to protect....

State and local officials in Connecticut reacted negatively to the Bureau of Indian Affairs' decision to recognize the Eastern Pequot Tribe on Monday....

The Navajo Nation outlaws fireworks on its tri-state reservation but tribal members can go to other jurisdictions to satisfy their needs....

The Tanana Chiefs Conference of Alaska celebrated 40 years of existence on Monday with the dedication of a building to founder and elder Al Ketzler Sr....

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Indian Country starts to respond to trust fund reorganization, Oklahoma tribes fight federal gaming regulators, Judge considers fate of Kennewick Man, and Seneca Nation land claim tossed....

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The federal government should be allowed to fire workers with a criminal past in order to protect Indian children from abuse, the Bush administration argues in court papers....

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A divided federal appeals court threw out criminal charges against a Montana juvenile on Friday, focusing on a century-old law that represented one of the first intrusions on tribal sovereignty....

South Dakota state law makes it a felony to knowingly disturb burial grounds but the protections haven't always applied to tribal sites, according to tribes....

Hundreds of celebrities, politicians and well-wishers helped the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut celebrate the completion of a $1.1 billion casino expansion....

"Somewhere, someplace, perhaps over the course of time, journalist and Pulitzer-winning novelist Edna Ferber undoubtedly wrote stories and books where she drew upon "indignation, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice..." As a Native person, the same passions often fuel my pen....

Two large fires burning in Arizona merged on Sunday to form a 300,000-acre blaze, the largest in state history....

The museum of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut has spent several years reconstructing an historic fort used by tribal ancestors....

The Buena Vista Me-Wuk Tribe of California was terminated in 1958 and restored in 1983 after a lawsuit was filed....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is using a computer database to help complete work on a federal recognition petition....

The Alaska Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to a curfew in the city of Anchorage....

The Seneca Nation of New York is planning an appeal of a federal judge's ruling on its claim to Grand Island....

A high-stakes political and environmental battle has delayed a proposed Missouri River management plan....

The Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota will sign a friendship treaty with Australian Aborigines....

The first premier of Nunavut, the Inuit territory in Canada, visited Alaska this month to meet with Native leaders....

Yucca Mountain is designed to hold up to 77,000 tons of nuclear waste but environmentalists say the Nevada site still won't solve the nation's problems....

A $50,000 project backed by the National Historic Preservation Fund is helping the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho preserve a cultural tradition....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is set to announce its decision on the federal recognition of two Pequot tribes in Connecticut....

Tribal Casinos Offer Competitive Wages Tribal leaders of the Minnesota Indian Gaming Association are disappointed by your May 7 story "Burgeoning Indian Casinos Get Ahead in Part by Dodging Labor Regulations." We view this as an effort to paint the Viejas Band, and indirectly all tribal casinos, as irresponsible and heartless employers using sovereignty as a convenient means of dodging their obligations to employees and customers. Nationally, most tribal casinos are not unionized, but the vast majority offer wages and benefits that equal or surpass those provided in union shops in the gaming industry....

The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is questioning a $7.8 billion plan to restore their homeland, the Everglades....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs today recognized the Eastern Pequot Tribe as the composite of two Connecticut tribes....

The Supreme Court today refused to allow an Arizona tribe to be sued by a non-Indian couple....

Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee plan to subpoena the Bush administration unless it turns over information related to a clean air program....

The Wall Street Journal in an editorial today calls the Bureau of Indian Affairs a "mecca for political manipulation," and says Congressional candidate Jeff Benedict of Connecticut is the man to fix the troubled agency....
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