Thursday, December 19, 2002

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With a court-imposed deadline fast approaching, Bush administration officials this week shared some aspects of the trust reform plans they intend to submit to a federal judge....

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After eight months of work, the joint federal-tribal task force on trust reform has essentially been laid to rest with the two sides in disagreement over several key issues....

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Outgoing Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb said there is "no basis" for Indian plaintiffs seeking an accounting of their funds to claim they are owed billions for more than a century of mismanagement....

Two Ojibwe bands are seeking to open a casino in St....

Donald Day, a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, is the new president of the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Minnesota....

A federal judge in Montana sentenced a businessman for bribing Bureau of Indian Affairs employees on the Crow Reservation....

Two teens are being held by authorities in Washington state for the murder of a man on the Spokane Reservation and the attempted murder of his wife....

A run-off will be held in February 2003 to determine the new chairman of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe of Minnesota....

Native students at Harvard Medical School recently held a discussion forum centered on the film "Skins." Directed by Chris Eyre of "Smoke Signals" fame, the movie tells the story of two brothers on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota....

Will an Alaska Native corporate executive take Frank Murkowski's seat in the Senate? That question will be answered tomorrow....

"Peabody's Arizona lease agreements with the Navajo and the Hopi were signed in the mid-1960s....

The Oneida Nation of New York turned a profit of nearly $70 million in the past year, according to a financial document obtained by The Syracuse Post-Standard....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs may decide as early as today on the federal recognition of the Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe, The Connecticut Post reported....

A vote to repeal a law that paved the way for Indian gaming in Connecticut has been put off until early next year....

"You may never have heard of Conrad Burns....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is planning to build a spiritual center and new tribal cemetery, The New London Day reports....

Senator Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) on Wednesday said he was confident he would survive an early January vote on his position as majority leader....

Researchers from Oregon State University have released a report on the economic impact of the Klamath Basin controversy....

Members of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho are preparing to dedicate a memorial to four warriors who traveled on foot to St....

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued two rulings on Wednesday striking down challenges to a plan to store up to 44,000 tons of nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation of Utah....

Zuni Pueblo Governor Malcolm Bowekaty was ousted by tribal voters on Tuesday, according to unofficial results cited by the Associated Press....

The Navajo Nation is paying to build a new hogan for a single mother in San Juan, New Mexico....

Doctors told Wauneta Lone Wolf, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, that she wasn't going to live very long after being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer in January 2001....

A seven-year-old boy is in protective custody in Minnesota after crashing a stolen car into a woman and her children on Tuesday....

The end of year reviews are coming in and The Washington Post unveiled its 2002 Midterm Election Winners and Losers today....

A prominent tribal leader's remarks about Hitler and the Jewish Holocaust have prompted debate in Canada about race in the Native community....

Police in Denver knew of serious threats against prominent American Indian Movement members but never informed the men, The Denver Post reports....

The Supreme Court website has published the transcripts of oral arguments in the White Mountain Apache Tribe and Navajo Nation trust cases....

Inmates from a corrections facility in Washington are helping the Stillaguamish Tribe restore the banks of the Stillaguamish River watershed....
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