Monday, January 21, 2002


The Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado has decided not to send a delegation of members to the Winter 2000 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah....

The St Francis Band of the Abenaki Nation of Vermont on Friday held a press conference to respond to opponents of the tribe's bid for federal recognition....

"I also admired Chris Eyre's "Skins," a drama about murder, vigilantism, alcoholism and despair on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota....

The Ponca Tribe has formed what is being called a unique partnership with the University of Nebraska....

The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the state was wrong to revoke the license of a non-Indian man who was pursued off the Iowa Reservation by a tribal officer....

A December 2000 ruling by a federal appeals court affecting protection of Native artifacts is being described as a setback by federal officials and Alaska Natives....

The Alaska Legislature is once again moving to fund Arctic Power with an extra $1 million so the group can lobby Congress to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling....

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Sunday proposed to sign a cease-fire agreement with the Colombian government by April 7....

The Makah Nation of Washington has requested $70,000 in federal funds from the National Marine Fisheries Service for use in its traditional whale hunt....

Prairie dogs are spreading "like wildfire" on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, a land coordinator for the Oglala Lakota Tribe told The Sioux Falls Argus Leader....

The Hart Senate Office Building is set to reopen tomorrow after tests on protective gear found last week in a hallway came up negative for anthrax....

The beluga whale population in Alaska's Cook Inlet is growing by about 3 percent a year, according to federal scientists, giving them hope that the mammal's numbers are rebounding after a decade of decline....

"The 50,000 American Indian students served by Bureau of Indian Affairs schools deserve higher academic standards, greater parental involvement and local control, and more flexible and efficient federal support....

The federal status of the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe of Montana is not yet finalized but the landless tribe is already cultivating economic development prospects....

When the Black Eagle Singers of Jemez Pueblo go to the GRAMMY awards ceremony next month, they'll be bringing along friends from New Mexico's other Pueblos....

Over the weekend, a group of about 20 people camped out at an historic Lower Hidatsa village in North Dakota as part of a recreation of Lewis and Clark's journey through the West....

Online casinos are facing an interesting problem in the post-dotcom bust age....

Tribal and gaming issues are becoming a rallying cry for Democratic candidates opposing Connecticut Gov....

The Alaska Native Heritage Center on Sunday held a celebration in honor Martin Luther King Jr., which featured a speech by Anchorage police chief Walt Monegan....

"It was barely a year ago that Linda Chavez was on CNN's "Wolf Blitzer Reports," lamenting her ill-fated bid to be secretary of labor and organized labor's opposition....

A day after her department held a consultation session with tribal leaders, Secretary of Interior made her first official visit to the Coachella Valley in southern California....

The Department of Interior's drawn out Internet shutdown has had far-reaching effects on daily business, as a dispatch from The Billings Gazette notes....

In an editorial today, The Washington Post criticizes Secretary of Interior Gale Norton for not submitting comments her agency drafted in response to a major environmental plan....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb are "deluding themselves" if they think tribes are going to buy into their plan to create an Indian trust agency, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says today in an editorial....

Native students from the villages of Barrow in Alaska and two in Siberia are taking part in a five-year research and education project funded by the Environmental Protection Agency....