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The federal government cannot be sued by tribes for alleged breaches of trust unless Congress adopts clear standards, the Supreme Court has been told....

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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 dealt a blow to several animal-rights groups on Thursday, dismissing their challenge to the treaty rights of a Washington tribe....

Nebraska lawmakers on Thursday killed a proposal to allow tribes to open casinos....

Some Colombians are predicting more blood will be shed in the country's forty-year civil war....

An organization representing 35 rural towns in' Connecticut and Massachusetts is officially gone on record in opposition to casinos....

New York Governor George Pataki (R) might finalize a gaming compact with the Seneca Nation as early as Monday, a source told The Albany Times-Union....

Tribes that operate casinos in Iowa might be asked to share sharing their profits with the state....

The Lincoln Journal Star in an editorial today criticizes Nebraska lawmakers for killing a proposal to allow tribal gaming....

The Bureau of Land Management is refusing to cap leaking oil wells drilled by the federal government....

A land conservation bill pushed by Sen....

Relapsing fever, a tick-borne disease, has been reported in the Four Corners area of the Navajo Nation....

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $250,000 grant to the Oklahoma Historical Society for an exhibit on Oklahoma's American Indians....

Biologists in Alaska shot and killed Grizzly 001 on Wednesday because they said the 15-year-old bear was posing a threat to humans....

A deal to preserve a key part of the Sand Creek massacre site in Colorado hasn't been approved by the Oklahoma tribes who are supposed to receive the land....

A California city will apologize, thirty years late, to an American Indian activist whose totem pole was chopped down in 1973....

Sherelle Lynne Walker, a member of the Navajo Nation, is midway through her walk across America....

The wife of an Alaska Native man killed last weekend is still not well enough to talk to police about the devastating incident....

Richard Saunders is getting a test run as police chief of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona....

The National Park Service has delayed a fossil dig in the Badlands National Park of South Dakota....

Two Oneida Nation women who accused a tribal official of assault failed to show up and testify at a hearing on Thursday....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut was given approval to make improvements to its museum....

A three-year-old girl is safe and sound after going missing on the Colville Reservation in Washington....

Makah Nation chairman Gordon Smith is "very pleased" with a ruling throwing out a challenge to the Washington tribe's whale hunt, the Associated Press reports today....

"Tons" of coal slurry has been spilled in Arizona streams by Peabody Coal, the company that operates mines on the Hopi and Navajo reservations, National Native News reports....

A complete and more readable version of a Department of Interior report on the Indian trust fund is available to download....

The Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians of California can finally start negotiating a casino deal with the state....

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A dispute over the leadership of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma appears to get muddier as time goes on....

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Australia's highest court on Thursday denied an Aboriginal tribe's claim to natural resources on thousands of acres of land in the western part of the country....

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Thanks to an eagle-eyed staff member of the House, Indianz.Com discovered that several pages are missing from our electronic version of the Department of Interior's recent report "Allegations Concerning Conduct of Department of the Interior Employees Involved in Various Aspects of the Cobell Litigation." Not only is our copy missing page 73, it also does not contain a set of recommendations Inspector General Earl E....

The Confederated Colville Tribes have negotiated a casino agreement with the state of Washington....

The Department of Interior's former chief information officer is retiring, Federal Computer Week reports....

A leftist group was blamed for an explosive attack on Colombia's capital as the country's new president, who has promised to crack down on violent rebels, was being sworn in....

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing regulations to allow states more flexibility in cleaning up polluted waters....

The Nebraska Legislature's General Affairs Committee on Wednesday delayed a vote on a proposal to allow up to nine tribal casinos....

A Navajo medicine man from New Mexico was arrested and charged with a rape that allegedly occurred two years ago....

Navajo Nation representatives and New Mexico lawmakers met on Tuesday to discuss water rights and a proposal to build a water pipeline....

A Department of Interior official is urging tribes to settle their outstanding water claims....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is considering whether or not to close the tribal rolls....

Decisions made at the Bureau of Indian Affairs during the Clinton and Bush administrations are influenced by politics and casino money, The New London Day says in an editorial today....

Connecticut's Congressional delegation is being asked to halt all pending land-into-trust decisions at the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

The California Legislature is considering a bill to eliminate what tribes say is a "double tax" on the sale of goods on reservations....

Up until 1994, the Mapuche Tribe of Argentina was barely recognized by the federal government....

Five Democratic candidates filed papers this week for a 90 percent Native district in a Montana county....

Everyone in the Pacific Northwest should be concerned about a federal study that shows fish in the Columbia River are contaminated, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says in an editorial....

Japan's negotiator in international whaling talks on Wednesday indicated his country would block Alaska Native subsistence whaling....

A bill to recognize a Native Hawaiian government probably won't pass the Senate this year, Sen Dan Inouye (D-Hawaii) said....

The only tribal member in the Senate is "leaving heavily" towards running for re-election, The Denver Rocky Mountain News reports today....

The Powhatan Renape Nation of New Jersey hosts the Eastern North American Hoop Dance Championship this weekend....

A court investigator in the Indian trust fund case has obtained a document he says may support allegations surrounding the recent ouster of a top Department of Interior official....

The Yavapai Nation of Arizona is putting a major focus on the education and culture of its tribal members....

Oglala Lakota activists in South Dakota are protesting a planned archaeological dig in the Badlands where tribal ancestors gathered after the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890....

The lead plaintiff in the Indian trust fund lawsuit spoke at the Montana Conference on Race Relation on Wednesday....

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation of North Dakota is hosting an update meeting with Elouise Cobell, lead plaintiff in the Indian trust fund lawsuit, tomorrow....

An Alaska Native tribal organization will use a federal grant to reopen a struggling community health clinic....

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Senior Department of Interior officials and their attorneys are so divided by petty disputes and personal concerns that they "cannot see or think clearly" when they manage millions of dollars in Indian trust funds, an internal report released this week concluded....

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After a bitter confirmation battle that saw her receive more negative votes than any of her predecessors, Gale Norton was unceremoniously sworn in as Secretary of Interior on January 31, 2001....

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A non-recognized Shoshone tribe cannot intervene in a lawsuit seeking to determine property interests in a Utah reservation, a federal appeals court ruled late last month....

A "glitch" has delayed the closing of a land sale considered vital to the protection of the Sand Creek Massacre site in Colorado, The Denver Post reports today....

President Bush installed a controversial nominee at the Agriculture Department on Monday, bypassing objections of Democrats who were leaning towards rejecting the appointee....

The General Affairs Committee of the Nebraska Legislature will consider a proposal to allow up to nine tribal casinos in the state....

A special commission approved by Rhode Island lawmakers held the second in a series of hearings on Tuesday night regarding gaming in the state....

The Red Lake Nation of Minnesota is using a $53 settlement to restore a once-thriving forest whittled down from 60,000 to 10,000 acres....

A federal jury has indicted three top officials of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota....

The chairman of the Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado faces sentencing next week for driving under the influence of alcohol....

Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas has accepted fewer students for the upcoming year in hopes of trimming enrollment....

Tulalip tribal leaders have instituted a moratorium on all for-profit residential developments on their Washington reservation although legal questions remain on its effect on land owned by non-Indians....

Casino mogul Donald Trump is promising litigation if he can't open a casino in Connecticut....

A woman who was beaten on Blackfeet Reservation in Montana died on Sunday, leaving two orphaned children Glenda Phyliss Dog Taking Gun died after spending several days in the hospital....

Leonard Atole, who spent 24 years in top positions for the Jicarilla Apache Nation of New Mexico, died on Monday....

An Alaska Native regional corporation and its partners want to expand natural gas production in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge....

Police in Anchorage are providing few details about the circumstances of the shooting death of an Alaska Native executive....

New Mexico Pueblos took in $100.5 million in slot machine revenues during the second quarter of 2002....

A new sport activity, based on an Internet web site, is drawing criticism from Arizona officials in charge of protecting historic and ancient Indian sites....

A member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma was indicted Tuesday for allegedly taking $12,000 in money in tribal-related schemes....

A member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina was stripped of her Miss North Carolina title....

The Department of Interior this week made public an internal report which concludes its handling of Indian trust fund has been a "not so humorous comedy of errors." Inspector General Earl E....

Former Secretary of Interior and former Arizona governor Bruce Babbitt refused to be interviewed for an internal report into the handling of the Indian trust fund....

A group of Native students from all over the country just spend six weeks at the University of Colorado at Boulder participating in a pre-college Upward Bound program....

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Four members of the Sioux Nation filed suit against South Dakota on Monday, charging the state with massive violations of Native voting rights....

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A federal appeals court on Monday raised significant doubts about laws meant to protect bald and golden eagles but came no closer to resolving a thorny religious and cultural dispute it first addressed a year ago....

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There's something for everyone at a major economic development gathering being put together by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb said on Monday....

The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and federal officials announced a $50 million home loan program for tribal members....

Indian and tribal businesses might be benefiting from New York City's cigarette tax, the highest in the nation....

The Department of Energy is holding a public hearing in Washington tomorrow about largest nuclear waste cleanup project in the country....

Lawmakers are confused by the federal recognition process, according to Representative Rob Simmons (R-Conn.), who himself was baffled about the recent acknowledgment of the historic Eastern Pequot Tribe....

An Arizona couple is asking for $850,000 for a large, garish kachina statue some say is offensive to the Hopi Tribe....

A man was killed this weekend on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington....

The Department of Justice's top investigator released a series of reports on Monday affirming woeful records-keeping practices....

"In some of the small, family-owned North Dakota and Minnesota restaurants and cafes, you can find excellent food and friendly people....

The Yakama Nation of Washington wants the federal government to install fish-passage facilities at a dam under construction....

An Alaska Native regional corporation wants to help the Fort Peck Tribes of Montana with a water pipeline project....

A white woman who started a fire on the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona has apologized to local residents in person....

Tribal water rights account for 60 percent of the allocation in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico....

Oglala Lakota tribal member Ed McGaa officially kicked off his U.S....

The wife of an Alaska Native corporate executive who was killed in his home is recovering after a second round of surgery....

Alaska Natives have a 30 percent higher risk of dying from all cancers than whites, according to two recent reports....

A teenage member of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota has been missing for more than three weeks....

The state of South Dakota has always ignored Native Americans, according to a plaintiff in a voting rights lawsuit filed on Monday....

A Kansas county is holding an informational forum about a land claim lawsuit filed by the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma....

A traditional First Nations chief is accusing his political opponents in British Columbia of currying to the white man....

Lawmakers in Nebraska are being urged to vote for a constitutional amendment to allow up to nine tribally-operated casinos....

The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation submitted a proposal to host a $350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium but its chances of success are slim....

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A leading Senator is calling for an investigation into the ouster of the Department of Interior's top Indian trust official, a probe that threatens to expose White House political involvement in litigation affecting billions of dollars in government mismanagement....

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President Bush last week promoted a regional Indian Health Service official tribes in Oklahoma claim is part of an unresolved problem over lack of accountability and financial irresponsibility....

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Top Indian trust official leaves Bush administration, California tribal gaming rights reinforced, Congress goes on break after busy session, and Pope John Paul II takes on indigenous rights....

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Friday held a long-delayed hearing on a bill to distribute $138 million to members of the Western Shoshone Nation of Nevada....

A fire at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado was 80 percent contained as of Sunday....

Obtaining recognition from the federal government is one of the hardest tasks these days but getting it from one's own tribe might be even tougher....

The first Alaska Native to become head of the Alaska State Troopers was shot dead early Saturday during what was described as a domestic-related dispute....

The 50th annual Lincoln Indian Club Pow-wow was held this past weekend in Lincoln, Nebraska....

With their budgets seeing major deficits, states across the country have looked to gaming to bring in needed revenue....

After 24 hours of colorful debate punctuated with speeches in Native languages and feasts on coca leaves, Bolivia's Congress picked a new president on Sunday....

The White Clay Society on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana held a reburial ceremony for seven tribal ancestors taken from their graves in 1914....

Some residents in Alaska want the Department of Interior to release more information about its plans to renew leases for the trans-Alaska oil pipeline corridor....

Several Arizona tribal leaders and Indian advocates have been invited to take part in talks with Mexican President Vicente Fox....

"The opponents of the Eastern Pequot tribe have chosen the wrong ground for their battle and in so doing have compromised their credibility and endangered their ultimate objective....

The Navajo Nation's top lawmaker is doing the right thing by denying funds to an election board that disqualified him from the tribe's presidential ballot, The Farmington Daily-Times says in an editorial today....

Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson was in Alaska this past weekend to announce $15 million in health care grants....

Compared to other Nevada communities, the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony has a heavy police force presence....

LaRue Martin Parker was elected chairwoman of the Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma in 1999, starting a trend of an all-woman government....

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation can't open a casino boat without changes in state law, according to North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem....

Tom Slonaker was ousted from the Department of Interior because he told Secretary Gale Norton "things she didn't want to hear," The Denver Post says in an editorial....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs today publishes notice of an amendment to a Class III gaming compact between the state of Montana and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe....

A new study in Connecticut takes a look at gambling problems in casinos....

The Nez Perce War of 1877 is being commemorated with a number of events this weekend....
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