Friday, July 12, 2002

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Outgoing political appointees of the Clinton administration last week scrapped controversial casino game procedures, a move condemned by the nation's top Indian gaming regulator as potentially illegal....

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Is it Friday already? That means it's time for the weekly list of the movers and shakers in Indian Country and beyond....

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A senior government official, who swore in court declarations that he is in charge of Indian trust, and lawmakers worried about the cost of a lawsuit that has exposed government corruption came under fire on Thursday for attempts to restrict the Department of Interior's obligations to Indian Country....

A fire on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana has consumed between 300 and 600 acres....

Prices for bison have dropped to $300 a head and below, down from a high of $3,000 a few years ago....

A federal magistrate this week allowed a group of Native Hawaiians to intervene in a lawsuit challenging a Native Hawaiian land program....

The Blackfeet tribal council in Montana held an inauguration ceremony Thursday....

The Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Idaho has dropped a controversial component of its smoke management plan....

The Navajo Nation's presidential primary has been suspended over a dispute involving the legitimacy of a candidate....

Water shortages in the Klamath Basin of Oregon and California are affecting fish considered vital to area tribes....

An $800 million funding deal by the Bush administration is a ruse to limit responsibilities to clean up nuclear waste in Washington, critics charged on Thursday....

Tribal members on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming plan to create an irrigation or conservation district to set their own water rights rules....

A student at SiTanka Huron University in South Dakota pleaded guilty on Thursday to intentional exposure of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS....

The 2002 North American Indigenous Games takes place in Winnipeg, Canada, this month....

A New Mexico state official on Thursday said he might ask a federal court to Pojoaque Pueblo's water usage....

A Securities and Exchange Commission investigation conducted during the 1990s failed to clear President Bush of wrongdoing for a stock deal, The Washington Post reports today....

The Seattle Times in an editorial today praises a local school board for eliminating its Indian mascot....

A white woman who admitted starting part of the fire that burned 60 percent of the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona says she can't be blamed for the worst blaze in state history....

The Hill, a Congressional media source, published a special section on the gaming industry this week....

The American Red Cross is seeking Native American and other minority donors in Arizona for a blood drive....

The Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma has raised concerns about a proposal for a Greek Orthodox monastery near the burial site of Chiricahua Apache leader Cochise....

Winnebago Tribe officials in Nebraska say a federal judge's preliminary injunction proves the state of Kansas is wrong to tax inter-tribal gasoline transactions....

The Oneida Nation of New York has sued a casino game manufacturer that is involved in another lawsuit over a controversial machine....

A Democratic hopeful for Nebraska attorney general is suggesting the Oglala Lakota Tribe have jurisdiction over the border town of Whiteclay....

The Department of Interior has denied involvement in a House bill that restricts action on the Indian trust fund even though the legislation contains provisions requested by Deputy Secretary J....

The Indian trust fund debacle is the focus of two television reports....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs today publishes its list of tribes eligible to receive services, otherwise known as those with federal recognition....

Tribal leaders in Kansas say the state's policy towards school mascots is demeaning and offensive....