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Everywhere you turn these days, the rights of individual Indians are under assault....

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Legislation under consideration in the Senate will essentially eliminate the federal government's trust responsibility to countless individual Indians who share ownership in 11 million acres of land....

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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....

Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills was the keynote speaker at a rural health conference in South Dakota on Thursday....

A systematic search for Russell Turcotte, a member of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota, is underway....

The Environmental Protection Agency is urging residents of the Leech Lake Ojibwe Reservation to limit their yearly intake of whitefish due to pollution from an industrial site....

The Bush administration only have two more weeks to appeal the Kennewick Man decision, The Tri-City Herald of Washington reports....

The Crow Tribe of Montana will hold its first primary election in history tomorrow....

The state of New Mexico dropped felony cattle rustling charges against a member of the Navajo Nation....

The Bureau of Land Management's chief appraiser has been relieved of his duties in the wake of a scandal over how land swaps in the West have been handled....

A tribal appeals court in North Dakota has upheld a tribal law forbidding felons from holding office for the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe....

A woman who was fired by the South Dakota Democratic Party denied charges of fraud over thousands of Indian voters she registered in the state....

State and federal investigators must check every single new voter registration in South Dakota in order to prevent the state's upcoming election from turning into another Florida fiasco, The Sioux Falls Argus Leaders says in an editorial today....

A movie producer hoping to tell the story of an African-American man who coached a team of Navajo girls basketball stars nearly got run out of town....

A bill to reform the way land owned by members of Oklahoma's Five Civilized Nations is managed has been shelved for the rest of the year....

A Yaqui Indian student in Arizona organized a race relations forum at his high school....

The four candidates for US Senate in Minnesota participated in a debate on Thursday night....

Three Washington tribes are working on a Lewis and Clark project that will include monuments designed by the well-known creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C....

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Bush White House -- for the second time -- to turn over documents related to its energy policy task force....

Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R) pressured political appointees of his brother, President George Bush, to obtain favorable government rulings on behalf of liquor company Bacardi Rum, The Washington Post reports....

A new exhibit in Washington, D.C., recognizes the contributions of Indian nations and African-Americans to America's fight for independence....

A primary election for the Northern Arapaho tribal council has been postponed....

It takes just as long to have a baby as it does to get one of President Bush's nominees confirmed, according to a study of the slow-moving process....

The Senate on Thursday adjourned after failing to agree on legislation to create a new homeland security department....

The Puyallup Tribe of Washington is working with the city of Tacoma on a plan to extend a rail-line to its casino....

"Consider this an anatomy of a closet sports fan....

Navajo culture and tradition was the focus of a Native American Day celebration at a New Mexico school....

Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas is cutting back spending to "essential needs," The Lawrence Journal-World reports....

Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico is laying off more than one-third of its casino workforce....

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Legislative efforts to fix the broken Indian trust have effectively been shelved for the year as Congress prepares to leave town for the upcoming election....

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File this one under: Only in Alaska....

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Fearing a potential disaster at the hands of the Supreme Court, tribes across the country are supporting the Navajo Nation's $600 million breach of trust case....

Students at the Pierre Indian Learning Center in South Dakota recently spent a day learning about the environment and its ties to tribal culture....

Rick West is the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, overseeing a space on the Washington, D.C., mall that will house the nation's premiere collection of Indian culture....

A public hearing was held on Wednesday for a proposed Alaska Native cultural and visitors center in Fairbanks....

Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura signed an executive order on Wednesday to reaffirm the state's relationship with Indian nations....

The Nebraska Minority Health Conference featured a keynote address by an Indian health leader....

A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokees averted contempt of court charges this week by turning over revealing photos of a North Carolina beauty queen....

A young resident of an Athabaskan village in Alaska died of cancer on Tuesday night....

"IMAGINE SITTING IN your big, beautiful house....

The saga over the "bada bing bada boom" Indian casino / gubernatorial ad continues in Maine with Italian and other leaders calling for television stations to ban the offending commercial....

Russell Turcotte, a member of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota, has been missing since July....

Investigators in South Dakota continue to examine voter registration and absentee ballots from the state's reservations....

Minnesota's Green Party had endorsed Ed McGaa, a tribal member, as its candidate for U.S....

Diabetics on Minnesota's White Earth Reservation are connecting to traditional foods thanks to an ambitious "cultural restoration" program....

An Arizona man faces federal and tribal charges stemming from a head-on collision that killed two on the Navajo Reservation....

A Navajo Nation council delegate faces extradition to the state of New Mexico for alleged violation of state livestock laws....

Hopi and Zuni tribal members held a protest on Monday against a plan to develop a mine near a sacred New Mexico lake....

A giant bird with a large wing-span has been spotted by residents of southwest Alaska villages....

Residents of the Connecticut city of Bridgeport "professed unwavering support" for a tribal casino, according to The New London Day....

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a jury bias case where Texas prosecutors eliminated African-Americans from serving on a death penalty trial....

Both chambers of Congress agreed on Wednesday to return to session after the elections in order to pass the federal government's appropriations bills....

The Republican Party has raised more than $100 million in soft and hard money campaign contributions....

The drama over Colorado's Columbus Day is not over....

Tribes on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming are experiencing a leadership shakeup....

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A federal appeals court last week heard oral arguments in a bitter dispute that has tested government policy aimed at restoring the Indian land base....

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Internal dissatisfaction....

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Every year, the Supreme Court is asked to review tens of thousands of cases....

The Otoe-Missouri Tribe of Oklahoma is holding a secret ballot on Sunday to decide whether to remove Secretary Julia Tah....

An extradition hearing for a Navajo leader accused of violating state livestock law has been delayed, The Farmington Daily-Times reports....

The Supreme Court on December 2 will hear oral arguments in two breach of trust cases....

California Secretary of resources Mary Nichols wrote a letter to Secretary Gale Norton, blaming the Bush administration for the deaths of as many as 30,000 salmon in the Klamath River....

Santo Domingo Pueblo has purchased 4,338 acres of ancestral territory for an undisclosed price....

New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Bill Richardson, a Democrat, has reported at least $50,000 in contributions from tribal and other gaming sources....

"More and more" counties are uncovering voter fraud among Indian residents in South Dakota, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal writes today....

Challenging the outcome of South Dakota's key senate race due to alleged Indian voter fraud wasn't the idea of Congressman John Thune (R)....

Italian-Americans, Democrats and other groups are calling on Maine gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Carter, a Green Independent, to stop running an ad they say depicts italians unfairly....

The Samish Nation of Washington has sued the Department of Interior for the years it was refused federal recognition....

An NCAA panel is recommending that all schools with Indian mascots or symbols re-evaluate their use....

The Nivkhs Tribe lives on Sakhalin Island in Russia's Far East....

A task force in Utah is recommending the state make major changes in order to improve the education of Indian students....

Four members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation are suing to halt a proposed $710 million expansion of the tribe's casino....

The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the state of Nevada have agreed to work together to save fish....

Jim Doyle, the Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin, said he is willing to reopen talks to buy land near an Ojibwe reservation....

The Native American Family Literacy Institute is holding a one-day conference in Shiprock, New Mexico, on October 25....

Connecticut's two tribal casinos saw $126.9 million in slot machine revenues for the month of September 2002, The New London Day reports....

A state recognized tribe in Connecticut is withdrawing a proposal to settle its land claims for a casino....

The state of Illinois is reviewing the death penalty sentences of more than 150 convicts....

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case testing the reach of state sovereignty....

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The Department of Interior is opposing plans to dredge a South Carolina lake for fear of disturbing ancestral Cherokee sites....

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The historic Sovereignty Run ends at the Supreme Court, an accounting for Indian trust funds is still in dispute, Colorado prepares for another Columbus Day, and Leonard Peltier goes back to court....

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Applying Supreme Court precedent seen as negative to Indian rights, a federal appeals court last week refused to uphold tribal authority over a health clinic located on tribal land....

Tribes in New England complained about media coverage at a Harvard University panel discussion on Monday....

The Yup'ik village of Emmonak has become a hotbed of criminal activity, according to reports in The Anchorage Daily News....

Denied recognition by the federal government, the Miami Nation of Indiana is still trying to keep its culture alive....

Navajo Nation tribal members have the highest accidental death rate, 138.5 per 100,000 people, of all Indian tribes....

The Navajo Nation will have an off-reservation polling site in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the upcoming November 5 election....

Members of the Leech Lake Ojibwe Band of Minnesota voted Chairman Eli Hunt out of office on Friday....

The Thlopthlocco Tribal Town swore in a new mekko, or king, on Monday....

A Navajo Nation council member is disputing charges that he violated New Mexico state livestock law....

The state of South Dakota is threatening to revoke the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe's fuel-importer license for not paying a state tax....

The Washington Times today reports on possible "voter discrepancies" among voter registrations of Indians in South Dakota....

A Minnesota school on Monday said it will not reschedule a pow-wow even though a civil rights lawsuit has been dropped....

A voter forum was held in Arizona on Monday night to debate three competing Indian gaming measures....

A casino executive in Mississippi says the Choctaw Tribe has an unfair advantage because of its sovereign status....

Italians in Maine are offended by a campaign ad that criticizes a gubernatorial candidate for changing his mind on an Indian casino....

An oil industry lobbyist in Oklahoma claims to have a document that details a tribal plan for retaliating against the oil industry....

Mark Cohen: "In an article about the events on Columbus Day in which I was quoted, The Post stated that I and other Transform Columbus Day Alliance members "believe" Columbus committed genocide against indigenous peoples, implying that there is a legitimate dispute as to whether he did....

The official Columbus Day holiday took place on Monday....

With the Senate poised to pass a bill to distribute $138 million to members of the Western Shoshone Nation, opponents are rallying support....

The US Forest Service is planning to expand a ski area located on the sacred San Francisco Peaks in Arizona....

The International Whaling Commission on Monday unanimously approved an Alaska Native whaling quota....

A parcel of land where a Navajo man was found beaten to death is not Indian Country, a New Mexico appeals court has ruled....

A Bush administration official said there is $1 billion in unused funds for Indian Country housing programs....

Once mired in poverty, the Mississippi Band of Choctaws has grown to become more self-sufficient, thanks to Indian gaming and a pro-business tribal chairman....

Native Hawaiians are launching a education initiative to promote Native Hawaiian sovereignty....

The Great Falls Tribune in an editorial today praises the Blackfeet Nation of Montana and a local town for working together to bring medical services to the region....

The Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho has established a new breed of the Appaloosa horse....

Police in Alaska believe teens in a Yup'ik village were trading berries for marijuana....

The Native American Local Government Commission of Great Falls, Montana, has been established to give Native Americans more voice in local government....

About 600 police officers were on duty Saturday to keep the peace in Denver, Colorado, where two opposing Columbus Day marches were held....

Campbell University of North Carolina, the the second largest Baptist university in the world, recently held a "lunch and learn" about a headhunting tribe in southeast Asia....

"Native American activists are busy reminding us that Columbus was a man of exploitation....

The two men vying to replace South Dakota Governor Bill Janklow (R) promise to improve Indian Country relations if elected....

The gubernatorial campaign of Frank Murkowski is crying foul over attacks about his ties to an Alaska Native corporation....

Members of the Klamath and Hoopa Valley tribes of northern California held a protest on Friday against water policies of the Bush administration....

The Anchorage Daily News in a two-part series examines the problems the local police faced when responding to a domestic-related dispute at an Alaska Native home....

"Perhaps now, in this new millennium, it is time America should rediscover Christopher Columbus....

Mexican President Vicente Fox supported anti-Columbus Day rallies throughout his country, calling it a day of healing for indigenous people....

There are 17 states that don't celebrate Columbus Day....

"Our Native youths deserve better....

The National Park Service is not trying to violate the free speech rights of employees, a regional spokesperson said....
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