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After two years of restricting nominees to "traditional" artists, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) this week announced a rather different set of picks for the Best Native American Music Album....

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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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Republicans in the House assigned new leadership to the chamber's legislative committees on Thursday, making two key changes affecting Indian affairs....


New Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano signed a gaming compact with the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona on Thursday....


The Mexican government on Thursday accused the United States of violating the rights of Mexican nationals on death row in the U.S....


"It's in the interest of the Indians to support a regulated casino because the wildly excessive profits of an unregulated casino really fosters a culture of greed and a fast buck and greed and a fast buck can never be the cornerstone to revitalizing a culture....


The Norwich Bulletin in an editorial today says racism wasn't a factor in the state legislature's decision to repeal a law that paved the way for Indian gaming....


"[President] Lincoln's armies, after decimating and destroying the South in the War for Southern Independence, turned its war criminals loose on the Indians of the Great Plains and the Southwest....


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The National Indian Gaming Commission on Thursday cleared the chairman of a California tribe of wrongdoing in an incident at the tribe's casino....


Louisiana Governor Mike Foster (R) wrote Secretary of Interior Gale Norton in support of the Jena Choctaw Tribe's request to create a 54-acre reservation....


A school board in South Dakota has agreed to implement changes aimed at making sports teams at a high school in Rapid City more inclusive of American Indian students and others....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut has a new secretary and treasurer, The New London Day reports Charlene Jones was elected secretary and replaces the retiring Pedro Johnson....


Indian Country Today is not a profitable venture for the Oneida Nation of New York, a tribal official said....


Members of Washington's Congressional delegation are preparing to introduce bills to recognize two tribes that were denied federal status by the Bush administration....


Environmentalists aren't the only ones upset with the selection of Representative Richard Pombo (R-California) as chairman of the House Resources Committee....


Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado) has been named Deputy Majority Whip by the Republican leadership....


The following documents were filed on January 6 by the Department of Interior as an attachment to reform plans for the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust....


About 45 members of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana, mostly young men and boys, completed the 400-mile Breakout Memorial Run on Thursday....


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The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) disputed claims by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska that the agency owes $200,000 in back rent....


Acting Assistant Secretary Aurene Martin won't recognize the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma's recent land purchase in New York....


Tex Hall, president of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and chairman of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, made an address to the North Dakota Legislature on Thursday....


Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado) plans to introduce legislation to extinguish historical accounting claims of willing Indian beneficiaries....


Efforts to get rid of the Navajo Nation's three-branch government are supported by the incoming political leadership....

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The Bush administration is again asking for permission to communicate with Indian beneficiaries despite a federal judge's rebuke of a policy that limits their rights....

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The US Supreme Court made news in 2002 but not for any rulings it handed down....

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Some Department of Interior officials reacted with glee yesterday upon reading a Denver Post column that defended the Bush administration's (in)action on the trust fund and criticized attorneys representing 500,000 Indian beneficiaries....


The Navajo Nation has funded the Shiprock Police Department in New Mexico for 45 officers but only 32 are on staff....


The state of Nebraska and the Omaha Tribe are pursuing an agreement to allow the tribe's police force to enforce traffic laws on non-Indians....


The leader of a racist group that is relocating its headquarters near a reservation in Wyoming has been charged with plotting to kill a federal judge....


Research being reported today in the New England Journal of Medicine says that drinking alcohol every day can "significantly" reduce the risk of heart attack....


Three men have been charged in Minnesota state court for the death of a man on the Mille Lacs Ojibwe Reservation....


The Douglas Tribe of Alaska hasn't had elections in two years due to problems with its leadership, The Juneau Empire reports....


American Indians donated at least $45,000 to help pay for the inaugural bash of new Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle....


A judge in California heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a case testing the application of state election law on tribal governments....


The Michigan Court of Appeals released an opinion on Tuesday allowing state courts to use tribal court convictions to justify harsher punishment....


The Department of Interior will begin reviewing gaming compacts the state of Arizona has finalized with 17 tribes....


The Métis National Council has asked President Gerald Morin to resign because he is facing assault charges....


New Mexico's Congressional delegation is making another attempt to settle Sandia Pueblo's claim to the Sandia Mountains....


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The Navajo Nation and mayors of border towns are signing an agreement to help combat alcoholism, The Albuquerque Journal reports....


A former Bureau of Indian Affairs employee who worked on the Crow Reservation in Montana pleaded guilty to accepting kickbacks, The Billings Gazette reported....


Native and Jewish leaders met in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday to improve relations a month after a prominent Aboriginal leader made comments in support of the Nazi Holocaust....


The Department of Treasury this week said it would not file plans regarding the management of 300,000 Indian trust fund accounts....


Opening arguments were heard on Wednesday in the first full day in the federal trial of a Navajo mother accused of murdering three of her children....


A bill to federally recognize the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina will be delayed pending a vote by tribal members on the tribe's traditional territory, the Associated Press reports....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs has been given 30 days to move out of a tribally-owned building on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska, Winnebago chairman John Blackhawk announced on Wednesday....


A federal judge in Oregon has cleared the way for scientists to study the remains of a 9,000-year-old Native man....


A Nevada congressman has reintroduced a bill to return land to the Washoe Tribe....

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A reform proposal submitted by the Indian plaintiffs in the trust fund case includes standards to guide the management of trust assets, a key demand of tribal leaders that has been resisted by the Bush administration....

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In an attempt to assimilate American Indians, the federal government in 1887 began parceling out land to individual tribal members....

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With the new year comes a new Congress, the 108th Congress will face not only unfinished business from last year but a new agenda of issues as well....


President Bush on Tuesday renominated 30 candidates for the federal bench, including a close friend of ousted Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Mississippi)....


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Senator Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) surprised Democrats and close associates on Tuesday when he announced he would not seek his party's presidential nomination in 2004....


The Norwich Bulletin in an editorial today backs efforts to change the way the Bureau of Indian Affairs handles federal recognition petitions....


"On behalf of the 184-member Indian tribes of the National Indian Gaming Association, I write to express my disappointment with your Dec....


"Now is the time for a courageous corporate titan to show the Indians the power of capitalism: A self-determined, non-mandated future....


Tribal leaders in Connecticut, backed by minority state lawmakers and civil rights advocates, said the repeal of a casino law that paved the way for Indian gaming was based in racism....


Representative JD Hayworth (R-Arizona) might give up his seat on the House Resources Committee, which has jurisdiction over Indian issues, The Arizona Republic reports....


A California county has filed a lawsuit against the National Indian Gaming Commission and Secretary of Interior Gale Norton in hopes of stopping a casino proposed by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians....


The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is looking to buy land near a lake for a new casino, The Daily Oklahoman reports....


The Navajo Nation will inaugurate a new president and vice-president on January 14....


Faculty members at the University of North Dakota are leading an effort to stop the sale of merchandise bearing the school's controversial "Fighting Sioux" nickname and logo....


"There is a metaphysical question presented by the dispute between American Indians and the U.S....


The US Army Corps of Engineers has given its approval to a highway extension near Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas....


A lawyer who fought Alaska Native sovereignty at the Supreme Court was renominated on Tuesday for a federal appeals court position....


Democrats in the Senate are promising to defeat a Bush judicial nominee they say has a poor record on civil rights....


"It's a story that dates back to 1887 when the federal government set up the Indian Trust Fund to distribute the money generated by Indian land, "for the benefit of the Indian." On its face it sounds like a very generous thing to do - yes, we forced you on to itty bitty reservations, but the good news is, that when we start logging and mining those itty bitty reservations, you may get something....


The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust fund on Monday accepted a letter written by a New Jersey Congressman that accuses Secretary of Interior Gale Norton of making false claims about her proposed reorganization....


Michael Jandreau, chairman of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, has written a letter to the federal judge overseeing the Indian trust fund calling the Bush administration's "consultation" talks a "sham." Jandreau attended a December 16-17 meeting in Washington, D.C., over the proposed reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Office of Special Trustee (OST)....


Jim Billie on Tuesday claimed he was the legal chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida....


Former Idaho attorney general Alan Lance, who fought tribes in his state on land claims, taxation, gaming, and other issues, was nominated by President Bush on Tuesday to a court position affecting veterans....


Alaska Natives are taking part in a clinical study to determine if prescription drugs can combat alcohol abuse....


A key part of a reform plan offered by the Indian plaintiffs in the trust fund case is a set of deadlines they want imposed on the federal government....


After more than 100 years of political existence, a South Dakota county on Tuesday swore in its first Indian sheriff....

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After months of talks with tribal leaders, the Department of Interior has arrived at a less than surprising conclusion: consulting with Indian Country consumes a significant amount of time and resources....

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Department of Interior officials have backed away from pledges to conduct a full historical accounting of money owed to more than 500,000 American Indians....

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The Bush administration on Monday unleashed more than 200 pages of what it said was part of an "ongoing" push to improve the management of the broken Indian trust....


A federal judge in Arizona today opens the trial of a Navajo woman accused of murdering three of her six children at their home on the Navajo Nation....


Members of the Crow Tribe of Montana were on hand on Monday for the opening session of the 2003 state legislative session....


Tribes in North Dakota passed a resolution calling on the state to restore an Indian education post....


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The Bureau of Land Management in Nevada is moving to seize more livestock belonging to two Western Shoshone sisters who refuse to pay grazing fees on land they say belongs to their tribe....


The Stillaguamish Tribe of Washington has spent nearly $5 million to relocate 27 families from a village being torn down to build a casino, The Everett Herald reports....


Lawmakers in Connecticut voted to repeal a law that paved the way for Indian gaming....


"Over the weekend, as my daughter and I were cruising the interstate, three deer jumped out in front of the car....


Research published in the Canadian Medical Journal documents a high rate of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, among Native drug users in Vancouver, British Columbia....


Senator Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota), one of the leading Congressional critics of the Bush administration's trust reform efforts, does not plan to seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004....


Aurene Martin has been named acting head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton announced on Monday....


The nominations for the 45th annual GRAMMY awards were announced this morning, including the category Best Native American Music album....


The Bush administration will not perform an accounting of land, mineral and other trust assets owned by more than 500,000 Indian beneficiaries....


Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles will not settle the Cobell trust fund lawsuit because "there is no supporting evidence" that Indian beneficiaries have been cheated out of billions of dollars, The New York Times reports....


A court investigator for the Indian trust fund lawsuit is threatening to refer a government attorney for disciplinary action for her refusal to provide documents related to an historical accounting....


Supporters of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are hopeful this year will be the year Congress authorizes development....


The California Department of Fish and Game has released a report blaming the recent deaths of more than 30,000 fish on Secretary of Interior Gale Norton....

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Tribal and Indian leaders voiced outrage last week upon learning that former assistant secretary Ross Swimmer has been nominated to oversee the trust fund accounts that he once tried to transfer to a private bank....

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The Bush administration isn't planning to account for the land, mineral and other trust assets owned by more than 500,000 American Indians, according to the sworn testimony of a senior trust official....


The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is wrapping up work on tribal history project....


American Indian Movement activist and actor Russell Means was pardoned last week by outgoing South Dakota Governor Bill Janklow (R)....


A dispute over the boundaries of the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska is contributing to tensions among Indians and non-Indians....


New leaders of several Pueblo tribes in New Mexico are being officially sworn in today....


Radmilla Cody, a former Miss Navajo Nation, is reporting to a federal prison today to serve 21 months for her role in a drug smuggling ring....


Native Americans are a big part of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's Cabinet....


"[A]s many times as we are told how poor, disease-ridden and in need of rehabilitation we are, there are just as many that remind us there is a world beyond what outsiders see and read about in the newspapers....


Members of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of South Dakota are suing the Department of Interior to oppose a $31.8 million loan tribal leaders have taken out....


Gilbert Blue, the recognized chief of the Catawba Nation of South Carolina, is being opposed by a group of tribal members who voted over the weekend to remove him from office....


The Navajo Nation signed a gaming agreement with the state of Arizona on Friday....


The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation of Arizona and a local public school have created a club for young tribal members....


Leaders of the Skull Valley Goshute Tribe of Utah are accused of retaliating against tribal members who oppose plans to store up to 44,000 tons of nuclear waste on tribal land....


"The two-part series in Time magazine investigating Indian gaming set off a lot of denial and angst in Indian country....


Whoever replaces Neal McCaleb as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs will also be "chewed up and spit out" unless given the freedom to reform the troubled agency, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


The appointment of Ross Swimmer to an Indian trust post is a sign of the Department of Interior's "uncaring arrogance," The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


The nominations for the 45th annual GRAMMY awards will be announced from New York City tomorrow....


The nation's top Indian gaming regulator has the power to close tribal casinos that don't follow the law, a federal appeals court ruled last week....


The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a ruling that allows non-Natives to oversee trust programs designed to benefit Native Hawaiians....


Tribal leaders will meet in Washington, D.C., this week to continue efforts to reform the Indian trust despite a lack of commitment from the Bush administration....


Nebraska's four federally recognized tribes have form the Coalition of Four Nations to push for expanded gaming....


President Bush on Friday announced his intention to nominate Ross Swimmer as Special Trustee for American Indians....

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