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Tired of Norton's Indian trust lies
It's bad enough that Gale Norton and Neal McCaleb have been held in
contempt for misleading a federal court about efforts to reform the broken
Indian trust....
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In The Hoop: Winners, Losers
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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Court orders dismissal of Indian gaming suit
Arizona's Indian tribes won a vote of confidence on Thursday with a
federal appeals court decision affirming their right to negotiate casino
agreements free from outside interference....
Native village fire quickly contained
A fire in the Inupiat Eskimo village of Shungnak, Alaska, destroyed two
lodges before being contained on Monday....
Tribes tapped for gaming conference
With Indian casinos generating $12.7 billion in revenues, tribes are being
sought out by the greater gaming industry....
Tribal member opposes death penalty
Ron Volesky, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and a Democratic
candidate for South Dakota attorney general, opposes the death penalty....
Mont. tribe worried about train deaths
The Fort Peck Tribes of Montana and a community group held a forum to
address pedestrian train fatalities on the reservation....
Five Civilized land bill criticized
Two Oklahoma tribes are worried a land bill pending in Congress will
subject them to the whims of the Cherokee Nation....
Minn. tribal member wins business award
A member of the Red Lake Nation of Minnesota has been awarded the
Minnesota Minority Small Business Person of 2002 by the Small Business
Administration....
Challenge could delay Seneca casino
A lawsuit in New York could delay the construction and opening of the
Seneca Nation's first off-reservation casino....
Wis. judge allows casino compact suit
A Wisconsin state appeals court reinstated a lawsuit challenging tribal
gaming compacts....
Okla. tribe provides new housing
The Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma has a waiting list for people to move
into a housing development....
Alaska mine target of $60 million suit
Making good on an earlier threat, the residents of an Eskimo village in
Alaska sued the operators of the world's largest zinc mine....
Navajo vendor center underway in Utah
The Navajo Nation and the states of Utah and Arizona are building a
vendor center for Navajo artisans....
Wash. tribe moves ahead with dam lawsuit
The Yakama Nation of Washington wants a federal judge to throw out a
repair project for a federal dam....
McCaleb blames trust fund on Babbitt
Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb says he and Secretary of Interior Gale
Norton were held in contempt for actions during the Clinton
administration....
Man found dead at N.M. Indian schoo
The FBI and the Bureau of Indian Affairs are investigating the death of a
man whose body was found at the Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico....
Editorial: Norton's trust boondoggle
"Accounting boondoggles are not limited to the private sector....
Norton: Veto bill if no ANWR drilling
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton wants the White House to veto an
energy bill if it doesn't allow oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge....
Ariz. race tracks want rehearing
The race track industry plans to ask for a rehearing of a case challenging
the validity of tribal gaming compacts....
Harjo: WSJ 'chickenhawks' want Indian war
"The Wall Street Journal, once again, has used its editorial pages to
decree who the Indians are and are not, and what Congress should do
about that.
In the year since 9/11, the newspaper has made a practice of attacking
Indians....
Crow to consider chairman election
A new election will be held to choose a new chairman for the Crow Tribe of
Montana....
Bill to recognize Duwamish Tribe
Representative Jim McDermott (D-Wash) plans to introduce a bill to recognize the
Duwamish Tribe of Washington....
Tribal member elected to county seat
A resident of the Fort Belknap Reservation and a member of the Flathead
Nation is the unofficial winner of a county commission seat in Montana....
Research focuses on Indian radio
A German anthropologist spent two years researching Indian media,
focusing on the KLND, the radio station serving the Standing Rock Sioux
and Cheyenne River Sioux reservations in North and South Dakota....
Bush panel will look at tribal laws
President Bush issued an executive order on Wednesday to speed on
environmental review of major transportation projects....
Senate to consider recognition rider
The Senate may vote today on a measure to suspend all federal
recognition decisions pending reform of the system....
Terminated tribe seeks status again
The Strawberry Valley Band of Pakan'yani Maidu Indians was terminated
in 1961 and is seeking to regain its federal status....
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Indian fee land free from state control
A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected an "unprecedented"
attempt by a Washington county to assert jurisdiction over land on the
Tulalip Reservation....
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In The Hoop: Emerging Economies
If you weren't at the National Summit on Emerging Tribal Economies in
Phoenix, Arizona, this week, you missed out on one of the better Indian
Country events of the year....
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Bush facing heightened contempt probes
The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust debacle has expanded
probes into the contemptuous conduct of nearly 50 federal officials and
government attorneys....
Calif. tribes promote economic success
Tribal and Indian gaming leaders are out in force at the Global Gaming
Expo taking place this week in Las Vegas....
Idaho tribe keeping eye on burn battle
The Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Idaho is keeping an eye on a legal battle over
field burning....
Mayan hieroglyphs rewrite history
Archaeologists are being forced to reconsider their prior views of Mayan
history with the discovery of one of the largest sets of hieroglyphs ever
found....
Wyo. tribal election results voided
A ballot error has forced a Wyoming tribe to void its primary election....
Pueblo offers affordable housing
Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico has won an award for creating affordable
to local residents....
Kan. county to move on Haskell highway
A Kansas county commission intends to move on a $8.5 million highway
expansion plan despite objections affecting Haskell Indian Nations
University....
N.M. teens arrested for attempted murder
The FBI on Wednesday arrested three New Mexico teens for the
attempted murder on the Navajo Nation....
Tribe threatens land claims over casino
The Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe of Connecticut is threatening to make
claims to thousands of acres of land unless it can get a casino....
Inouye: Recognition rider won't pass
Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs
Committee, is opposing an attempt to halt all federal recognition
decisions....
Indians lack political representation
Brazil's Indian population makes up the majority in some parts of the
country but there are no elected indigenous representatives....
Tribe runs 700 miles for sacred site
The following is a joint press release of the Quechan Indian Nation and
California state senator John Burton....
Utah tribe honors elders with pond
The Northern Ute Tribe of Utah dedicated a special pond for use by tribal
elders....
Court rules against Ariz. tribe
A federal judge in Arizona issued a preliminary junction against the
Colorado River Indian Tribes, forcing the tribal casino to submit to a
state-tribal gaming compact....
BIA hit with $37M lawsuit over deaths
The family of a Nebraska couple killed during an accident with a Bureau of
Indian Affairs employee sued the agency on Wednesday for $37 million....
Norton cited for Indian trust 'fraud'
The Bush administration is "on the run" for failing to fix the Indian trust
fund, lead plaintiff Elouise Cobell told The London Independent....
Column: Norton, aides like 'kids' on trust
"Call it a modern-day Trail of Tears, another chapter in the endless saga of
the raping of the American Indian....
Editorial: Norton has made no reforms
"Accounting failures in the private sector have been big news lately....
Seneca Nation breaks ground on casino
The Seneca Nation of New York began work on Wednesday for a temporary
casino....
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Griles close to 'perjury' on Indian trust
Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles, who swore under oath that he
is in charge of Indian trust, came "perilously close" to perjuring himself by
trying to smear a court investigator, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday....
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Republicans defend Norton on trust fund
Members of Congress reacted in a partisan fashion on Tuesday to a
federal judge's ruling that found Secretary of Interior Gale Norton in
contempt of court for ignoring the rights of 500,000 American Indians....
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Judge find Bush officials in contempt on trust
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Tuesday said the Bush administration
plans to challenge a federal judge's stinging ruling which declared her and
Indian affairs aide Neal McCaleb "unfit" to manage money belonging to
500,000 Native Americans....
Narragansett Tribe gives thanks
For more than 300 years, the Narragansett Tribe has met every August to
give thanks to corn....
Hearing held on federal recognition
Critics of federal recognition got a chance to air their complaints at a
Senate hearing on Tuesday....
Native school program gets award
The Native American Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma was
named "outstanding educational program of the year" by the Oklahoma
Native American Business Development Center....
Editorial: Norton is 'disgrace'
"Once again the United States of America is reminded of its disgrace, via
its Department of Interior, for how it has historically bungled trust assets
belonging to American Indian people....
N.M. candidates debate Indian issues
The three major candidates for governor of New Mexico debated Indian
issues in recent interviews....
Tribal elders teach traditional games
Blackfeet tribal elders helped teachers and students at schools in Great
Falls, Montana, learn more about traditional culture....
Editorial: Prosecute Indian killer
A man already convicted of murdering a Navajo woman must be
prosecuted for other crimes, The Farmington Daily-Times writes in an
editorial today....
Navajo candidate chooses running mate
Navajo Nation presidential hopeful Joe Shirley chose Frank Dayish as his
running mate....
Mont. tribe helps bust drug house
The Blackfeet Nation of Montana participated in a raid on a drug house
near a school on the Blackfeet Reservation....
Indian candidates seek county seat
Five Indian candidates are seeking a seat on a Montana county
commission, thanks to a federal judge's ruling that found Native voting
rights had been violated....
Judge rejects tribal casino challenge
A New York state judge on Tuesday dismissed a challenge to the Seneca
Nation's casino compact....
Editorial: Send Norton the liar to jail
"Interior Secretary Gale Norton and an assistant secretary were enshrined
yesterday in the Hall of Shame over the epic debacle of the Indian trust
case....
Alaska village school problems continue
Problems at an Inupiat village school in Alaska have not been corrected,
critics charged....
New indictments in Crow Nation scandal
Two new federal indictments were issued on Tuesday for a bribery scandal
involving the ex-chairman of the Crow Nation of Montana....
Lamberth makes ruling on trust
The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust class action issued a
number of decisions on Tuesday....
Editorial: Norton deserves rebuke
"Gale Norton, US Interior Secretary, is a decent, hardworking person -
who deserves to get taken to the woodshed for mishandling the Indian
trust funds....
Slonaker feels vindicated by ruling
Tom Slonaker, ousted from his trust reform oversight role at the
Department of Interior, feels vindicated with yesterday's decision holding
the Bush administration in contempt of court....
Company bows to tribal pressure on mine
A multinational company seeking to start a mine near a Wisconsin
reservation is withdrawing from the controversial project....
School president: Haskell is not closing
Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas is not about to close, school
president Karen Swisher told students on Tuesday....
Fla. tribe fights for court oversight
A federal judge in Florida won't appoint a court monitor to oversee the
federal government's $7.8 billion Everglades cleanup....
Ariz. tribe fights to protect past
The Hualapai Tribe of Arizona, like many throughout the nation, is trying to
protect its past and sacred sites from being destroyed....
Tribes and businesses flock to summit
About 1,500 tribal leaders, Indian entrepreneurs and business
representatives are attending the Bureau of Indian Affairs National
Summit on Emerging Tribal Economies this week in Phoenix, Arizona....
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BIA summit focuses on Indian Country economies
Looking like proud parents, Secretary of
Interior Gale Norton and Indian affairs
aide Neal McCaleb on Monday took a
sneak peak at the economic development
summit they are hosting this week in
Arizona....
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Judge holds Norton in contempt
A federal judge found Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and Assistant
Secretary Neal McCaleb in contempt of court....
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Norton found in contempt for trust fund
A federal judge today held Secretary of Interior Gale Norton in contempt of
court for her handling of the Indian trust fund....
Conn. tribe wants casino deal
The Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe of Connecticut lacks federal recognition
but is moving forward with plans for a casino....
Haskell students want delay on highway
An organization of Haskell Indian Nations University students, alumni and
supporters wants more time to review complex environmental studies on
a proposed highway expansion in Kansas....
Gale Norton: The Bush forest policy
"With his "Healthy Forests Initiative," President Bush has taken decisive
action to address the catastrophic fires that have been rampaging across
the West....
Minn. Indian income grew in '90s
Income of Native Americans in Minnesota grew over the past decade but
still trails that of whites, according to The Minneapolis Star Tribune....
Begaye starts Navajo re-election bid
Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye officially kicked off his re-election
bid on Monday....
Senate panel to focus on recognition
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee will hold a hearing today on the
federal recognition process....
Editorial: Norton needs 'soul-searching'
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton needs to so some serious
"soul-searching" on the presence of snowmobiles in national parks and
monuments, The New York Times writes in an editorial today....
Editorial: Don't appeal Kennewick ruling
The federal government shouldn't "waste" more time and money to
appeal the Kennewick Man decision, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says in
an editorial today....
D.C. EMTs slow to respond to pow-wow
It took District of Columbia emergency medical technicians 13 minutes to
reach a Blackfeet elder who suffered a heart attack at the National
Museum of the American Indian's pow-wow....
Canada doesn't shy from Indian trust
While the Bush administration seeks to limit liability for management of
Indian trust assets, First Nations in British Columbia, Canada, are seeing a
revolution in terms of their land and other rights....
Harassment festered over 'Fighting Sioux'
University of North Dakota officials failed to respond to claims of a racially
hostile environment over the school's use of the "Fighting Sioux"
nickname, federal investigators concluded....
Native athletes strive for success
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader wraps up its series on Native American
athletes by focusing on what makes them succeed....
Women buck stereotypes on business
The National Summit on Emerging Tribal Economies is profiling successful
Indian businesses, including a roofing business in Arizona owned by two
women....
Judge holds Norton in contempt
The following is a statement by United States Representative Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), the
ranking member of the House Resources Committee, on Judge Lamberth's
ruling today....
Editorial: Playing games with casinos
In an editorial, The New London Day chastises Connecticut Governor John Rowland
for his current anti-gaming stance....
Yellow Bird: Reservation elections
"Elections on reservations can be as heated and dicey as some national
elections....
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The Week in Review
Tribes end talks over Indian trust standards, critics challenge federal recognition decisions, court dismisses lawsuit over casino game, and Miss America hopeful loses chance to compete....
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Okla. Inidian property subject of battles
A high-priced bidding and legal war erupted last week over a commercially
viable Indian allotment in Oklahoma....
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Wis. officials scrap talks over mine buyout
The state of Wisconsin has ended talks over a tribally-driven proposal to
buy a controversial mine site, officials announced on Friday....
Maine casino poll draws mixed results
A poll conducted by The Bangor Daily News reveals a split among
residents of Maine over support of a tribal casino....
Conn. lawmakers deny tribal influence
Two critics of the Bureau of Indian Affairs deny that money influences
their decisions despite accusing the troubled agency of the same....
Native athletes face challenges
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader of South Dakota is running a feature series
on Native American athletes....
New Haskell history museum opens
Haskell Indian Nations University has a new $1.1 million cultural center
and museum that opened on Saturday....
Kickapoo tribal members want recall
Members of the Kickapoo Tribe of Texas filed suit in state court to force a
recall election of their chairman Raul Garza, also known as
Makateonenodua....
Alaska Native corp plans power plant
An Alaska Native regional corporation plans to build a huge coal power
plant to supply rural villages with low-cost power....
NMAI pow-wow attracts thousands
The first ever National Museum of the American Indian pow-wow was held
over the weekend in Washington, D.C....
A Navajo, a woman, and ... Republican
Sharon Clahchischilliage is running for New Mexico secretary of state and
if elected, she'll be the only Native American woman in the nation to hold
a statewide office....
Tribal environmental conference set
The Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals is holding its 10th
anniversary celebration this week in Arizona....
Lewis and Clark center has Native week
The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Great Falls, Montana, is holding
Native American Week to raise awareness of the historic journey....
Calif. tribe split on burial site
Members of a California tribe are of three camps when it comes to an
historic burial site....
Ceremony marks site of Nez Perce battle
Members of the Nez Perce Tribe participated in a ceremony to
commemorate the location of a battle between tribal ancestors and the
U.S....
N.Y. museum returns remains to Haida
The American Museum of Natural History in New York returned 48 Haida
ancestors to the Haida First Nation of British Columbia, Canada....
On Mascots: 'Redskins' is our n-word
"For several seasons now, I have rooted against the so-called Redskins,
having found it difficult to "love the team but hate the name," as some of
my more tolerant Native American friends do....
Oneida Nation delays home demolition
The Oneida Nation of New York delayed demolition of a tribal member's
home on Sunday....
Norton 'bragged' about progress on trust
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton last week "bragged" about the progress
the Bush administration has made on trust reform, Bill McAllister of The
Denver Post writes in his "Beltway Notebook" column....
Minn. tribe schedules recall election
The chairman of the Leech Lake Ojibwe Tribe of Minnesota is up for a recall
vote....
BIA economic summit kicks off in Ariz.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is hosting its first economic development
summit this week in Phoenix, Arizona....
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