Thursday, April 18, 2002
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Tribal labor bill draws complaints
House Democrats clashed with tribal leaders on Wednesday over a
proposal to prevent labor unions from taking a piece of the $10 billion
and growing Indian gaming industry....
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In The Hoop: Self-Determination
But in this case, they never went away!
After saying it would stop using Indian imagery, West Virginia's 4-H
chapter has changed its mind, The Washington Times reports today.
Turns out the chapter got the wrong impression from the Department of
Agriculture, which provides $4.5 million in federal funds through the
Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service and can't
tell the group what to do with the money....
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Plaintiffs file motion to stop records move
Attorneys representing 300,000 American Indians have asked a federal
judge to halt a proposed move of 32,000 boxes of trust fund records....
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Report slams top trust reform officials
A federal judge is being urged by a court investigator to take immediate
action against the Department of Interior in order to protect 300,000
American Indians....
Kickapoo Tribe strikes back
Faced with a lawsuit in its court, the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma is
blasting a former gaming partner....
Ex-IHS nurse pleads guilty in Mont
A former Indian Health Service nurse has pleaded guilty in federal court
to federal conspiracy charges....
Editorial: Praise Navajo override
In an editorial today, The Farmington Daily-Times praises the Navajo
Nation council for overriding a veto and restoring $2 million in funds for a
tribal school....
Father of Jimi Hendrix dies
James Al Hendrix, father of guitar great Jimi Hendrix, died on Wednesday
at the age of 82....
Thousands of ancestors uncovered
Archaeologists working in Peru have discovered more than 2,000
well-preserved Inca mummies....
Date of first primates pushed back
Research published in today's issue of Nature suggests human ancestors
roamed with dinosaurs more than 80 million years ago....
Judge wants bison records released
A federal judge on Wednesday instructed a government attorney to start
identifying records related to the roundup and killing of bison near the
Yellowstone National Park....
Assisted suicide law upheld
A federal judge in Oregon on Wednesday rejected the Bush
administration's attempt to block an assisted suicide law....
First Nation wants U.S. casino
Representatives of the Six Nations Confederacy are in Pennsylvania to
push plans for a casino....
Ariz. gaming bill killed
A bill to implement gaming compacts with Arizona's tribes died on
Wednesday by a procedural vote....
Delay in Seneca casino lamented
Organizers of major conventions are pulling out from western New York
because the Seneca Nation hasn't yet set up a casino, local officials said.
It was hoped a temporary casino could have been up and running
already at the Niagara Falls convention center....
Mohegan Tribe's water plan supported
The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut won official endorsement on
Wednesday for its $7 million regional water project....
Pueblo historian to host talk
Noted author and scholar Joe Sando of Jemez Pueblo will give a talk on
Indian and Spanish relations today in New Mexico....
N.M. Indian school a top water user
Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico is the city of Santa Fe's second
heaviest water user, according to local records....
U.S. on defense for Venezuela
The Bush administration on Wednesday denied a senior State
Department official spoke with the leader of a coup that temporarily
ousted Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez....
Utility plan assailed
Members of a House panel on Wednesday criticized a utility's plan to
build a power line through land owned by a California tribe....
Miami Nation casino buzz
The prospects of a Miami Nation casino in Indiana have people stirring
about the past, the present and the future....
Blackfeet study approved
The Blackfeet Nation tribal council has approved a study to determine if
building a lodge near Glacier National Park would be economically viable....
Yup'ik whaling captain found
Walter Toolie, a whaling captain from the Siberian Yup'ik village of
Savoonga, was found alive on Wednesday....
Energy panel takes special requests
A special White House task force is taking requests from the energy
industry on ways use public lands for energy development....
Votes for ANWR said lacking
Republicans are said to be lacking even a simple majority to support oil
drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....
Subsistence hearing held
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a hearing on subsistence and
fishing issues in Alaska on Wednesday....
Cayuga land claims appeals pushed
Two New York counties have asked a federal judge to certify an appeal of
the Cayuga Nation land claim....
Death penalty an option for Navajo murder
A New Mexico man faces the death penalty if convicted of murdering a
Navajo woman....
Court urged to stop records move
The special master in the Cobell class action on Wednesday urged a
federal judge to stop the transfer or 32,000 boxes of trust fund records....
EPA's Whitman moves to transfer office
The Environmental Protection Agency is doing some behind the scenes
moving of its own this week, raising suspicious about an internal power
conflict....
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