Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Wednesday asked a skeptical federal judge for a "chance" to fix the Indian trust fund, a system she admitted was barely making the grade....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Wednesday championed a controversial report as providing an historical accounting for four American Indian beneficiaries, refusing to acknowledge she violated her trust duties by seeking to release it to Congress and the American public. Although she repeatedly testified that she was not an accountant and that she hasn't actually read the report, Norton said the $20 million effort verified the account balances of four of the five named plaintiffs in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) class action....

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The Confederated Grand Ronde Tribes of Oregon and the American Museum of Natural History in New York settled an ownership dispute in June 2000 regarding a meteorite considered sacred in Clackama culture....

In another record offering, the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut sold $250 million worth of bonds on Wednesday for its casino expansion....

The New Mexico Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected without comment a challenge to the state's gaming compacts with 11 tribes....

"The reported remarks do not express my views and do not accurately reflect what I believe I said some 12-13 weeks ago." Attorney General John Ashcroft issued this one-sentence statement on Wednesday in response to outrage from Arab-American and Muslim groups to a report in which he allegedly stated: "Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him....

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday voided logging permits for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska because it said the Environmental Protection Agency created new regulations without allowing public input....

President Bush today will announce his long-awaited alternative to a global warming treaty he pulled out of last year....

California is dropping its taxation lawsuit against the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, a spokesperson for the state's taxation board said....

With respiratory diseases high on the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony in Nevada, the tribe is particularly concerned about a massive kitty litter project that appears near final approval....

With coalbed methane gas drilling one of the biggest issues facing the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming, the Environmental Protection Agency met with tribes, governments and landowners on Wednesday....

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are ready to vote on a controversial nominee to the federal bench and the outlook doesn't look good....

Beating back numerous amendments and rival measures, the House early this morning voted 240 to 189 to pass the Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform bill....

Country music star Waylon Jennings died at his home in Chandler, Arizona, yesterday....

A bill to ban the use of "squaw" in Wisconsin's place names was advanced by the state Legislature on Wednesday....

Some 20 employees at Yellowstone National Park are receiving gas masks because they can't stand the exhaust and fumes from snowmobilers in and around the park....

After numerous delays, the new Bureau of Indian Affairs building for the Navajo agency in Shiprock, New Mexico, is finally set to open March 4....

Native business leaders in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Wisconsin and Minnesota are planning on forming a national American Indian Chamber of Commerce....

The Oneida Nation of New York is criticizing the comments of a man running for Congress because he said he wants to terminate the legal status of all tribes....

A celebration to honor Tlingit activist Elizabeth Peratrovich has been delayed so that President Bush can attend a Republican fundraiser in Anchorage, Alaska....

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb's decision to restore trust land to the United Auburn Indian Community in California hasn't even become legal but opponents are already promising a lawsuit....

Elouise Cobell is on the "brink" of winning her five-year-old Individual Indian Money (IIM) lawsuit, USA Today declares in a report today....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton said on Wednesday that 40 percent of her department is back online but to thousands of Indian landowners the web sites and e-mail missed by employees and the public is a far cry from the payments they have not received since November....

The media was out in full force at the Bush administration's contempt trial yesterday, hoping to decipher Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's latest ruminations....

Several top officials, including the president, have left the Northwest Indian College on the Lummi Reservation in Washington....