Friday, June 28, 2002

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Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby defended the legality of his sprawling Oklahoma casino empire this week against complaints of improper Bureau of Indian Affairs land approvals....

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astern Pequot Tribe and Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Tribe - Congratulations on your new federal status! It's time to work out any differences and fight the state of Connecticut together....

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A federal magistrate today ordered the outgoing members of the National Indian Gaming Commission to discuss settling a dispute over a controversial casino game....

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A House subcommittee this week sharply curbed an historical accounting owed to more than 300,000 American Indians....

Navajo Nation Council Speaker Ed Begay can't run for president of his tribe, a review board has determined....

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the use of public money to send children to religious and private schools....

Bill Hewitt, the founder of a Indian-themed tourist attraction died in Washington on Monday at the age of 85....

The Norwich Bulletin in an editorial today says any future tribal casino deals should include more money for local communities in Connecticut....

Two people who were participating in a New Age "vision quest" died in a California "death lodge" last week....

Two tribes in Connecticut are hoping their case for federal recognition will be helped by their state status....

A group called Connecticut Citizens Against Casinos has called for a halt to all pending federal recognition decisions....

A joint House-Senate conference committee on an energy bill has already run into some heavy debate, thanks to Rep....

A subsidiary of Calista Corp., an Alaska Native regional corporation, has signed a $1.1 billion deal to provide aerospace engineering to the Army....

Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) this week suggested it was time to end a welfare exception for Alaska Native villages....

A New York school district voted this week to retire its Indian mascot....

Students in New Mexico are learning traditional Pueblo farming techniques....

The 4H program in Virginia has removed references to Indian culture, The Washington Times reports today....

The Jicarilla Apache Nation of New Mexico signed an emergency water deal on Thursday to help local communities deal with drought conditions. The tribe agreed to provide up to up to 6,000 acre-feet of water....

The Idaho State Board of Education on Thursday denied accreditation to the Coeur d'Alene Tribal School....

The massive Rodeo-Chediski fire continues to burn on the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona....

An employee of the Mescalero Apache Nation has been charged with starting a fire on the southern New Mexico reservation....

Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) lawsuit, is starting an Indian Country outreach effort....

The Supreme Court today denied a request by a fired Indian Health Service to have her position reinstated....

Students in Alaska are helping archaeologists unearth an Athabaskan village that was abandoned earlier this century....