ending December 14
WEEK IN REVIEW: Phil Hogen,
new chairman of the National
Indian Gaming Commission
File Photo © NSM.
The all-male, all-Bush National Indian Gaming Commission was sworn in this week and its members promised to keep tribal casino operations in shape. But their words were overshadowed by a fury over a series of TIME magazine articles that painted Indian gaming as a failure. NIGC Chairman Phil Hogen and other officials said the report didn't document the improvements that casinos have brought to Indian Country over the years. Get the Story:
TIME runs Indian gaming feature (12/9)
NIGC commissioners to be sworn in (12/10)
Transcript and Poll: Indian Gaming (12/11)
Column: Answers needed on Indian gaming (12/12)
Column: Indian gaming a failed 'program' (12/12)
'We're going to do it right' (12/13)
Hogen won't shy from rocking the boat (12/13)
TIME series on Indian gaming a hot item (12/13) Peltier loses sentence reduction bid
American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier lost another attempt to get released from prison early this week when a federal appeals court rejected his bid to reduce his two life-term sentences. Peltier was convicted of murdering two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The deaths occurred 25 years ago but still resonate in Indian Country. Get the Story:
Peltier loses another appeal (12/13) Other top stories
Oklahoma tribe develops lucrative Indian property in Oklahoma City...Montana's highest court sides with Flathead Nation on water rights...South Dakota attorney general looks into claims of Indian voter fraud...Idaho tribal members asked to accept blood quantum requirement...Bush administration funds $100 million in diabetes grants...Alaska Native leaders meet to discuss controversial funding proposal...Canadian court rebukes government for meddling in First Nation affairs...Connecticut Republicans want to terminate state-based tribes...Jim Billie, ousted Seminole Tribe chief, watches as federal trial documents free-spending ways...Florida moves to confiscate Miccosukee Tribe's land... Get the Story:
Seminole Nation develops allotment (12/9)
Mont. tribes win water rights ruling (12/9)
Indian vote allegations dismissed (12/10)
Blood quantum change up for vote (12/10)
IHS funds $100M for diabetes (12/11)
Alaska Natives meet to discuss future (12/11)
Federal takeover revoked by court (12/12)
Lawmaker wants to revoke recognition (12/12)
Billie to show up for Seminole trial (12/13)
Fla. moves to condemn tribe's land (12/13)