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Nearly 20 Native American students in South Dakota who claim they were "terrorized" by drug-sniffing dogs filed suit on Thursday against a school board located near the Yankton Sioux Reservation....

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Special Trustee Tom Slonaker yesterday broke with the Department of Interior's silence on a controversial spending bill recently approved by the House....

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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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The Department of Interior's top Indian trust official won't endorse the Bush administration's controversial historical accounting proposal....

Gerald "Butch" Brun suffered a stroke last Friday, two days after he was elected chairman of the Red Lake Nation of Minnesota....

The Senate on Thursday confirmed 15 presidential nominees after the White House brokered a deal with Sen....

The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island is praising the delay of a vote to expand video slot machines at non-Indian gaming facilities....

Two Connecticut police detectives challenging the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation were accused in a 1995 break-in on the tribe's reservation....

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee will hold a hearing to codify existing federal recognition regulations into law....

Brian Burns is the new chief information officer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

The To'hajiilee Chapter of the Navajo Nation plans to continue fighting for a casino on its land in New Mexico....

The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas closed its casino at midnight on Thursday, putting more than 200 people out of work....

A member of the Confederated Colville Tribes of Washington was sentenced to 6 and one-half months for the rapes of two young griles on the reservation....

Leland Thomas comes to the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument in Arizona to work in the bookstore....

The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday said two Alaska Native children can continue living with their paternal Jewish grandmother....

The New Mexico Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that federal land located near a Navajo Nation chapter house is not Indian Country....

A training program in Oklahoma helps juvenile workers better serve and understand Native Americans youths in the justice system....

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed two lawsuits on behalf of members of the Yankton Sioux Tribe that allege discrimination at a school near the South Dakota reservation....

The Apache Tribe of Oklahoma was in court on Thursday to try and reopen its disputed bingo hall....

Attempts to expand the amount of nuclear waste stored next to the Prairie Island Reservation in Minnesota are meeting resistance from the tribe....

"Many Americans have recently been introduced to the American Indian code talkers of World War II by the MGM epic, "Windtalkers." However, like the blind man who touched an elephant's trunk and described that animal as being long and tubular, the current vision of the code talkers is incomplete....

Alaska Native students are scoring higher on state reading, writing and math tests but large disparities remain....

The Shamattawa First Nation is still feeling the effects of three recent suicides....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton was in Nevada on Thursday to visit a geothermal plant....

Some Mexicans are upset over the Catholic Church's new depiction of the first Indian saint....

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The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust debacle dealt the Bush administration a major blow this week with his decision to take on several tribal mismanagement disputes....

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Wall Street benefited from a surge in stock prices on Wednesday but the rally largely bypassed a casino company with close ties to the $10 billion Indian gaming industry....

Two police detectives are suing the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut for alleged libel....

Two factions are battling to name a new bridge in Oklahoma....

Representative James Traficant (D-Ohio) was expelled by the House on Wednesday night by a vote of 420 to 1....

Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who was found in contempt for mishandling the Indian trust fund, won't face questions for his role in another accounting scandal, The Washington Times reports today....

A Nebraska state court will hold a trial next month to determine the validity of a voter petition that could expand gaming options for tribes....

A Wisconsin man is suing the Ho-Chunk Nation and a slot machine manufacturer over a lost $1.17 million jackpot....

The Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to block negotiations on permanent casinos in Detroit....

Several pieces of human arm bones were discovered this week at the Little Bighorn Battlefield in Montana....

"Looking at Connecticut's involvement in the Eastern Pequot Indian recognition process causes me to wonder what is the difference between our state and Mississippi....

A woman on the Crow Reservation of Montana pleaded not guilty to charges of assaulting a child on Wednesday....

Language in a $28.9 billion counterterrorism spending bill exempts the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota from environmental regulations and lawsuits that are blocking some forest thinning projects....

The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma is inviting tribal members and area residents to a meeting on Saturday to discuss future plans....

The American Indian Cultural Festival is being held this week in Berg Park in Farmington, New Mexico....

The Tlingit Tribe of Alaska will be getting a key part of its history back with the return of a totem pole....

Several Native performers, including 70s rock legends XIT, are performing in New Mexico this weekend....

Fires in interior Alaska are close to the Native village of Venetie....

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved $1 million to help prepare for the residents of Shishmaref, a Native village in Alaska, to relocate....

A new proposal to protect wild salmon supports tribal initiatives but still makes implementation difficult, according to the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission....

The Seattle Times in an editorial today says tribes and environmentalists are right to question the Department of Energy on plans to clean up a nuclear waste site....

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Trust law standards require the federal government to pay out billions of dollars for fiduciary mismanagement, the Department of Interior's top Indian trust official argued recently....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton finally got some (positive) press yesterday for her initiative against the snakehead fish, which she described as "like something from a bad horror movie." But one state official wasn't too excited about Norton's warning that the dangerous species was discovered in Maine....

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Buoyed by a recent Congressional victory, Indian Country advocates on Tuesday called on the Bush administration to settle the bitter and long-running Indian trust fund lawsuit....

Arizona's newly drawn 1st Congressional district has a 19 percent Native American population, a factor which could tip the upcoming primaries and election....

Wildlife officials in Maryland plan to exterminate all species in a pond in order to kill any remaining snakehead fish, a species Secretary of Interior Gale Norton declared as "injurious" to the American public on Tuesday....

An Indian artist in New Mexico is still recovering from a June 7 dragging incident that has left him unable to walk without help, The Santa Fe New Mexican reports....

The Smithsonian Institution is putting on a new exhibit of 400-plus paintings of famed Indian portrait artist George Catlin....

The Lincoln Journal Star in an editorial supports the Winnebago Tribe's proposal to take over environmental enforcement on its Nebraska reservation....

"Keith Burris' July 21 commentary concludes that U.S....

A Montana judge on Tuesday ordered the release of documents related to the state's participation in the slaughter of bison in Yellowstone National Park....

The Army Corps of Engineers has issued a permit to the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut to harvest oysters....

The Department of Interior's role in the $7.8 billion Everglades restoration plan would be boosted under new rules the Bush administration is releasing....

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation isn't affected by national cuts to Lewis and Clark bicentennial funding, a tribal planner said....

The Navajo Nation and the state of New Mexico on Monday signed a five-year renewal of an agreement to test weighing equipment owed by the tribe....

A federal jury on Tuesday awarded $54.6 million to three victims of torture suffered at the hands of the El Salvador army....

President Bush on Tuesday signed a bill that officially declares Yucca Mountain in Nevada the nation's nuclear waste dump....

The Bureau of Land Management is holding a public meeting on Friday to discuss progress on a plan to save the shrinking Walker Lake in Nevada....

Alaska Governor Tony Knowles named an Alaska Native to the Board of Game on Tuesday....

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday held a hearing for Priscilla Owen, President Bush's pick to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals....

The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs last week approved a bill to require a study of the effects of relocation on Navajo and Hopi communities in Arizona....

Washington tribes are being forced to cut back their clam harvest by as much as 50 percent....

Seven Native fire crews have been battling the Deer Point Fire in Washington, which has consumed more than 253,000 acres since it started July 15....

Community members are calling for the removal of the board members at the American Indian Center in Fort Worth, Texas....

A three-day workshop on writing tribal histories is taking place in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, this week....

A Montana man was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for abusive sexual contact with a child under the age of 12 on the Crow Reservation....

A member of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Idaho pleaded guilty this month to embezzling more than $100,000 in tribal funds....

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The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas made an urgent plea on Monday to keep its disputed casino up and running....

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Thanks to the programming wizardry of New York resident Monica Lamb, you can learn Mohawk from Onkwehonwehneha, an artificial intelligence (AI) robot available to anyone with AOL instant messenger capabilities....

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President Bush's failure to name a new Indian Health Service director has raised fears that a non-Indian will be appointed to oversee the health care of more than 1 million Native Americans....

The Shoshone-Bannock Nation of Idaho is holding a two-day summit this week....

A federal judge on Monday said he would decide within a week on a lawsuit filed by tribes and environmental groups....

Several arrests might be made in connection with more than 200 fires on the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona, The Arizona Republic reports today....

Representative Rob Simmons (R-Conn.) doesn't want to be associated with a Republican bigshot because it would also associate him with the Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut....

A hearing will be held tomorrow to address a federal judge's ruling on voting rights affecting the Fort Belknap Reservation....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today calls on companies to stop using Lakota leader Crazy Horse's name....

The 2nd annual National Native Conference on Tobacco Use is being held in Utah this week....

A federal judge on Monday ordered the University of Illinois to pay $5,000 for five opponents of the school's Chief Illiniwek mascot....

Several Alaska Native organizations have asked Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to extend a comment period on the trans-Alaska oil pipeline. The Tanana Chiefs Conference, the Alaska Federation of Natives and the Association of ANCSA Regional Corporation Presidents and CEOs Inc....

Fran Ulmer, the Democratic candidate for governor in Alaska, has taken her campaign to rural Alaska in hopes of reaching Native voters....

The National High School Finals Rodeo is being held in Farmington, New Mexico, this week....

Navajo ranchers on Monday were able to unload some of their livestock at an auction sponsored by the Navajo Nation....

Work has begun on the $1.5 million Sacagawea Interpretive and Education Center in Salmon, Idaho....

Capitol Reef National Park in Utah plans to repatriate three shields to the Navajo Nation unless there are objections....

Senator Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) reported the approval of $300,000 in funds for a proposed water pipeline affecting the Navajo Nation and other users in New Mexico....

In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post, journalist Liza Featherstone criticizes the Green Party's nomination of Lakota Sioux tribal member Ed McGaa for U.S....

The California Assembly is considering a bill to add protections to sacred sites....

Archaeologists are tracing the discovery of a network of waterways in central Florida to an Indian culture farther north....

A South Dakota judge on Monday returned custody of a 5-year-old Native American boy to his mother....

An anti-casino group plans to file a lawsuit to stop a gaming initiative from going on the November ballot in November....

The Senate Judiciary Committee today is holding a hearing for Priscilla Owen, President Bush's pick for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals....

The Bush administration is withholding $34 million in funds from a United Nations family planning program over the objections of a White House advisory panel....

An executive of a company that has entered into a development deal with the Crow Tribe of Montana praises the arrangement in a guest editorial today....

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House defeats limitations on Indian trust fund, Congress keeps eye on sacred sites, tribe's nuclear waste site sees new opposition, and federal reports shine light on Indian Country....

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The world's largest coal company has been threatened with contempt sanctions for its participation in what one federal court has called "suppressing and concealing" of information from the Navajo Nation....

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A contract dispute that is part of a heavily criticized trust reform project could end up costing the Department of Interior more than $1 million....

The Arizona Republic continues its series on the health issues affecting Native Americans in Arizona....

"Tainted Legacy" took 14 days to make but its story is powerful, according to students and others who helped create the educational film. The film documents a problem that has surfaced as tribes and Native Americans seek to reclaim sacred and other items from museums and other institutions....

The 600 residents of Shishmaref, a Native village in Alaska, will relocate in response to an eroding Chukchi Sea....

The Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona is sending 29 tribal members, including 23 youth, to the Roman Catholic Church's World Youth Day in Toronto, Canada....

The FBI is refusing to release more than 60,000 documents related to Leonard Peltier, according to an attorney for the imprisoned American Indian Movement activist....

A reported 14 residents of Kwigillingok, a Yup'ik village in Alaska, were exposed to botulism after sharing whale blubber....

The Navajo Nation lost almost $200,000 on its highly praised and well attended exhibit at the 2002 Winter Olympics....

The chief of the Shamattawa First Nation in Manitoba has called a state of emergency for three suicides in nine days....

The New London Day in an editorial today criticizes the House for overwhelmingly stripping a spending bill of a commission to study Indian gaming....

Pope John Paul II will canonize Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an Aztec man, on July 31....

The Navajo Nation Supreme Court is expected to decide this week on the eligibility of a candidate for the presidential election....

Tribal critic Jeff Benedict won't be in the running for Connecticut's 2nd Congressional district....

A dozen migrants, including a group of Indians from the Chiapas region of Mexico with little Spanish and English skills, were struck by lightning last week as they were entering the United States....

WorldCom Inc declared bankruptcy on Sunday night, beating Enron for the largest such filing in U.S....

The Environmental Protection Agency is restoring cleanup funds to 11 toxic waste sites, The New York Times reports today, but one affecting Quapaw tribal members in Oklahoma isn't on the short list....

The World Eskimo-Indian Olympics completed its annual run in Alaska early Sunday morning with a traditional seal skinning....

Four churches on the Cherokee Reservation in North Carolina are planning to apologize for not recognizing Native beliefs....

An estimated 9,000 people attended the 17th annual Seafair Indian Days Powwow at Discovery Park in Washington this weekend....

It started because sisters Carrie and Mary Dann wanted to graze their cattle on public land....

A fire on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana has been nearly 50 percent contained....

Indian gaming has brought benefits to tribes in Washington and Idaho, The Spokesman Review says in an editorial today....

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Thursday will hold a hearing on the Bush administration's historical accounting proposal....

BIA Consultation 'No Child Left Behind' The Bureau of Indian Affairs today announces a series of regional consultation meetings regarding the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001....

The Denver Post in an editorial today criticizes supporters of a bill that would have limited an historical accounting to more than 500,000 American Indians....

"Tribal colleges have, in reality, brought higher education to Indian people....

A new museum exhibit is highlighting an Alaska Native culture that has been overshadowed by a linguistic misnomer....
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