Monday, September 23, 2002

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The federal government's key witness on a $40 million failed Indian trust accounting system was not "credible," the federal judge overseeing the debacle said in his contempt of court opinion against the Bush administration....

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Federal judge delivers explosive contempt ruling against Bush administration, Bureau of Indian Affairs holds economic development summit, and federal appeals court affirms gaming rights of Arizona tribes....

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A federal judge last week said it was "absurd" for Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to claim she has fulfilled her trust responsibilities to four of the five named plaintiffs in the Indian trust fund lawsuit....

Five Nez Perce bands who refused to be confined to a reservation in Idaho were nearing their goal -- the Canadian border -- in late September 1877 before they were caught....

"If you're into snoot, you gotta look like you just stepped out of the slick pages of Cowboys & Indians magazine (which really should be "Indians & Cowboys," by the way), if you're anybody at all....

Gaming has poured more than $1.2 billion into the pockets of tribes in Washington since 1996, The Seattle Times reports....

Japan will no longer oppose a bowhead whaling quota for Alaska Native subsistence hunting, a United States official said....

Anchorage police chief Walt Monegan has replaced a top lieutenant and will institute a new communications program in response to the failure to find the home of an Alaska Native executive who was shot to death in August....

Preservation officials in Mexico fear a dam proposed by their own government will destroy at least 18 culturally and historically significant Mayan sites....

A woman who watched the Indian episode of Oprah Winfrey's Angel Network was inspired to help and organized a large donation of school supplies to the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana....

Are the Freedmen, descendants of African slaves, members of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma? The Associated Press tries to find out in a two-part series....

The Crow Tribe of Montana will hold a primary election October 19 to replace indicted ex-chairman Clifford Bird in Ground....

"I'm the tribal chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe....

The Gila River Tribe of Arizona will open a new $125 million hotel and casino resort next month....

Kansas will become the second state to put a statue of an Indian atop its statehouse but at considerably more cost and controversy....

The school with the "Fighting Sioux" nickname is getting off easy even though it didn't respond to discrimination and harassment complaints made by Native students, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....

A genealogist being sued by the Yavapai-Prescott Tribe of Arizona failed to show up for a tribal court trial contesting her work last week....

A 28-year-old Alaska Native woman from the village of Chickaloon has been chosen as one of 30 young visionaries by the magazine Utne Reader. Shawna Larson was recognized for her work on the recent treaty to limit the use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs)....

Charles Ballard, the noted Quapaw professor and poet, died on Friday....

A federal appeals court on Friday affirmed the dismissal of a Michigan tribe's gaming suit....

Tom Slonaker, former Special Trustee for the Indian trust, will testify at a Senate hearing tomorrow about his ouster from the Department of Interior....

"A federal judge has once again found a Cabinet official in contempt over failed efforts to account for money the government holds in trust for Indians....

"US District Judge Royce Lamberth is right to be upset about foot-dragging at the Interior Department - but his anger may be directed at the wrong people....

"Can one man single-handedly right a century of wrongs? That seems to be the Quixotic obsession of US District Judge Royce Lamberth, who is overseeing what seems like an endless series of court actions involving the federal government's mishandling of Indian trust fund accounts dating back to the late 1880s....

"More than 300,000 Native Americans should be receiving about $500 million a year from the Department of the Interior in royalties collected on oil, gas, coal, timber and grazing operations on 11 million acres of Western lands held in trust for the Indians since 1887....

"A judge's decision to hold the interior secretary of the United States in contempt of court is a serious matter....

There was little praise for Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and Indian affairs aide Neal McCaleb in a court ruling holding them in contempt for misleading a federal judge about efforts to fix the broken Indian trust....

A tribal court sentenced Southern Ute tribal chairman Leonard C....
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