Wednesday, April 17, 2002

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Special master Alan Balaran, the court investigator in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) class action, issued an "emergency" report today on the pending transfer of 32,000 boxes of trust fund records....

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Democrats have only themselves to blame for the whole Arctic National Wildlife Refuge debate....

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The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust has reappointed a court investigator to keep watch over the Department of Interior but imposed some limits in response to objections raised by the Bush administration....

Congressional hopeful Jeff Benedict took his criticism of Indian gaming to Maine on Tuesday....

Officials in New Mexico have yet to determine the cause of a fire that burned land on and near Pojoaque Pueblo....

An accountant for the Fort Yukon Athabascan Tribal Governments in Alaska was found dead on Tuesday....

The National Park Service is implementing most of a Clinton-era ban on personal watercraft....

All charges have been officialy dropped against a Minnesota woman who admitted writing papers for members of the University of Minnesota men's basketball team....

Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) showed more pictures of Inupiat Eskimo children on the Senate floor on Tuesday....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down portions of a law that banned computer-generated child pornography....

The 27th annual Northwest Indian Youth Conference began in Billings, Montana, on Tuesday....

An Arizona legislative panel approved a bill to implement gaming compacts with the state's tribes....

Residents of the New York town of Mamakating have asked their leaders to reject a proposed casino....

The Bush administration on Tuesday tried to respond to criticism over its role in the temporary ouster of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez....

"It is sheer irresponsibility when a story is written based on half-truths, and worse yet, when stories are written that are totally untrue....

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed suit against Arthur Andersen on Tuesday....

Former White Mountain Apache chairman Ronnie Lupe is challenging a recent election he lost on the Arizona reservation....

A judge in Minnesota ruled on Tuesday that casino audits submitted by the state's tribes are private....

"No cloak of darkness for these guys....

Darrin McDonald of the Mi'kmaq Big Cove First Nation is planning to fish for lobster this weekend....

Conservationists are opposing a proposed land swap between the National Park Service and the Eastern Band of Cherokees of North Carolina....

A county official in Montana said he regretted a dispute over how commissioners are elected had to be resolved in federal court....

The Oneida Nation of New York on Tuesday issued a statement explaining why it canceled a screening of a movie at Syracuse University....

"These are interesting times for American Indians....

Closing arguments were heard on Tuesday in the trial of a New Mexican man charged with murdering a Navajo mother....

The city of Gary, Indiana, has been negotiating with the Miami Nation of Oklahoma on a casino, mayor Scott King said on Tuesday....

In an editorial today, The Denver Post says it's all right that Secretary of Interior Gale Norton distributed a video created by a pro-drilling lobbying group....