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Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to be elected chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, charmed a Washington, D.C., crowd on Thursday night with her views on tribal culture, gender roles and Indian mascots....

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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....

A vice president of Harrah's Entertainment is holding a fundraiser for Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) because of his role in Indian gaming....

Over the objection of more than 20 states and the nation's top Indian gaming regulator, appointees from the Clinton administration are proposing to ease the definition of certain casino games....

Having lost their fight in the Senate, opponents of the campaign finance reform bill are amassing a legal challenge....

A senior Department of Justice official is disputing a published report on the Bush administration's proposed settlement of a civil rights case....

President Bush on Thursday announced plans to speed up processing of goods and people at the U.S.-Mexico border....

The Department of Energy is planning to file thousands of documents in federal court in an attempt to prove it consulted with environmentalists on President Bush's national energy policy, reports The Washington Post today....

The Bush administration on Thursday proposed to allow doctors and hospitals to disclose private medical data without the written consent of their patients....

A frequent foe of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation says the tribe is not supporting a proposal to give several Connecticut communities more casino money....

The Maine Legislature is being asked to set up a task force to assess the impact of a tribal casino on the state's economy....

The two candidates for North Idaho's Congressional seat are supporting Indian gaming although the same can't be said of local lawmakers....

The Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma is working to make its casino operation compliant with federal law....

The top aide to Rhode Island's Secretary of State has been fired for setting up meetings between the Narragansett Tribe and a casino company....

The Alaska Supreme Court on Thursday rejected most of the state's House redistricting plan....

An audit by Arthur Andersen underestimates the damage Pueblos in northern New Mexico suffered from the Cerro Grande Fire of May 2000, a federal disaster official said....

A report on the economic impact of Alaska Native corporations was released on Thursday....

"I cringed while reading the Argus Leader article of the young Native American girl housed in a basement "dungeon" (so stated by the law enforcement personnel)....

A pair of whale jawbones donated by an Alaska Native hunter are being held back from their journey to England....

The Seneca Nation of New York spent nearly $400,000 on a lobbying contract last year, The Buffalo News reports....

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Thursday approved a bill to compensate the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota and Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska for damage resulting from the construction of dams on the Missouri River....

The plaintiffs in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) class action have asked a federal judge to hold Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and her attorneys in contempt for the destruction of e-mail documents against court orders....

Denied a local permit, the Oil-Dri Corp isn't doing the same for needy cats in Nevada....

In an attempt to protect a set of 4,000-year-old Indian petroglyphs, the owner of the property on which they sit has covered the famous artifacts up with a tarp....

Navajo Nation representatives in Utah are urging the tribe to reassert its water rights to the Colorado River....

Having the Navajo Nation contract its health care from the Indian Health Service is one of President Kelsey Begaye's top priorities....

The Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Nation of South Dakota is asking the U.S. Attorney's office to start a civil rights probe over a racially charged shooting incident involving the tribe's girls basketball team....

The Gila River Tribe of Arizona on Thursday announced it was withdrawing its proposal for a $350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium....

The Senate on Thursday approved a renewable energy amendment to an energy policy bill but the legislation remains stalled as Democrats battle Republicans over key issues....

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Remember when Indianz.Com wrote about Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb's failure to offer new land-into-trust regulations despite the Bush administration having put them on hold more than a year ago? Well this distinction has earned him a special honor from the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress....

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The Department of Interior's sole representative at a forum on tribal lands came under fire on Wednesday for the government's record on the protection of sacred sites....

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American Indians and Alaska Natives receive substandard health care in part because the federal government has refused to acknowledge its responsibility to tribal nations, a report released on Wednesday concludes....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has asked its attorneys to look closer at a recent court decision affecting the legitimate government of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation....

Former independent counsel Robert Ray on Wednesday released his final report on the scandal which nearly brought down the presidency of Bill Clinton....

Refusing to budge about allowing Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge to testify, the White House has changed its mind about one of his senior aides....

The Bush administration is proposing to settle a landmark civil rights claim against a hotel chain for alleged discrimination against African-Americans....

Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday abruptly canceled a hearing for a bill he has introduced to distribute a $129 million land claim award to members of various Shoshone tribes....

President Bush on Wednesday said he will sign a bill to overhaul how federal campaigns are financed after the measure cleared the Senate....

The House Resources Committee on Wednesday reported favorably on a bill to require more public consultation before a national monument is declared....

A plan to double the amount of money five Connecticut towns receive from tribal casinos gained support on Wednesday....

The Arizona Tourism and Sports Authority on Wednesday delayed its decision on a new host for a $350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium....

The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma on Wednesday said it was willing to give up its share of a $248 million land claim award in exchange for a casino in New York....

"The Narragansett Indians are furious that the House Finance Committee appears bent on ignoring their pleas to put a West Warwick casino on the 2002 ballot....

In response to tribal concerns, Narragansett Chief Matt Thomas said on Thursday he would put off approaching the U.S....

Democrats in the Senate can't hold up a vote on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site, Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) admitted on Wednesday....

Five Navajo students from Red Mesa High School in Arizona are on their way to New York City to take in the sights and sounds of the Big Apple....

A report by a national organization cites a lack of discussion on inhalant abuse in comparison to other substances....

In an editorial, The Farmington Daily-Times says the new 3 percent sales tax of the Navajo Nation is "long overdue." The paper says the tax will ensure local governments get money the need, rather than having the central bureaucracy decide how the funds are spent....

"While it's true that the American Indian community is diverse in its opinions and acceptance of the dominant culture's suppression and colonialism, it's also true that the use of mascots to depict this diversity is an egregious affront to a significant segment of our community....

Thanks to some high-level intervention, some bowhead whale bones left over from an Inupiat hunt are on their way to England....

The National Park Service and tribal elders have differed on the exact location of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado....

A judge in South Dakota on Wednesday refused to turn over two teens involved in a racially charged shootout to the adult criminal system....

A Republican candidate for governor of Maine has changed his stand on a proposed tribal casino and says he opposes it....

The Bush administration is reviving a federal-tribal task force aimed at protecting sacred sites....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is waiting to see how the Army Corps of Engineers responds to the state's recommendation to limit a $10 million fisheries project....

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The Bush administration has proposed to eliminate all funds for newly recognized tribes next year even though a number of decisions are due to be finalized in the coming months....

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President Bush on Tuesday signed into law a bill aimed at encouraging tribes to settle disputes over their trust assets but the measure's swift movement hasn't stopped the flow of lawsuits seeking an accurate historical accounting....

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You may know her as the Indian movie insider, radio hostess, political activist and frequent Native America Calling caller (her comments about Sen....

The Creek Nation of Oklahoma is starting to provide radio broadcasts and publications in the Maskoke and Euchee languages....

The White House is still balking at bipartisan requests for Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge to testify before Congress....

In response to numerous lawsuits, the Bush administration has proposed to scale back endangered species protections....

The Department of Justice's Inspector General on Tuesday released his report on the failure of the FBI to provide more than 4,000 pages of documents regarding executive Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh....

President Bush will push conservative nominees to the federal bench despite facing serious challenges by Democrats in the Senate, The Washington Post reports today....

The Bush administration is seeking to reform the federal regulations process and wants public comment....

Federal prosecutors are asking a grand jury to indict a Navajo Nation man on first degree murder for the death of his uncle....

The town council of Kittery, Maine, is being asked to vote to oppose a casino proposed by two tribes....

A Rhode Island lawmaker is planning to file a bill to put the Narragansett Tribe's casino proposal before state voters....

Law enforcement in Anchorage aren't considering paintball attacks that took place earlier this week as racially motivated because not only Alaska Natives were targeted....

The Kwanlin Dun First Nation of Yukon is seeking at least $60 million to offset costs associated with a proposed natural gas pipeline that would run through traditional Yukon territory....

Thanks to casino profits, the Gila River Indian Community of Arizona has diversified its holdings, sparking an economic development boom on the tribe's reservation near Phoenix....

Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.) is backing Nevada's rejection of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site, according to an informal poll cited by The Las Vegas Review-Journal....

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed rules affecting air quality on reservations in Washington, Oregon and Idaho....

All schools in the Tuba City Unified School District in Tuba City, Arizona, have been shut down this week pending results of asbestos testing at the high school....

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday sided with the Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Idaho and said a national Indian lottery could move forward....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton was asked by Montana Attorney General Mike McGrath on Tuesday to complete a transfer of coal tracts to the state....

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb will be setting up a task force on sacred sites to follow an executive order issued during the Clinton administration....

The Klamath Tribes of Oregon on Tuesday welcomed Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's announcement of meetings to discuss their views on the Klamath Basin....

Elouise Cobell, lead plaintiff in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) class action, will not receive millions from a potential settlement, she tells the Christian Science Monitor....

Two Nipmuc bands in Massachusetts are not joining together to form one tribe for purposes of federal recognition....

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The Bush administration is getting ready to hold a round of nationwide consultation sessions to discuss another one of its controversial proposals....

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In response to complaints about office thievery, Sen....

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The movement to protect sacred sites scored a major victory on Monday when the Supreme Court refused to hear a case affecting the Hoopa Valley Tribe of California....

The top aide to Rhode Island's Secretary of State has been barred from involvement in statewide issues because he arranged meetings between the Narragansett Tribe and a casino company....

Washington state and federal authorities on Monday arrested a group of men for allegedly poaching $1.3 million worth of geoducks from state and tribal waters....

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday said it would suspend a rule that requires drug companies to ensure their products are safe for children....

The National Geographic Society on Monday announced the discovery of a Incan village previously unknown to archaeologists....

Leaders from towns next to reservations in Connecticut are supporting a proposal to increase the amount of money they receive from a tribal casino fund....

The Senate has scheduled a final vote on Wednesday for the campaign finance reform bill....

The president of Arizona's Senate on Monday took a number of gaming-related bills off the agenda, setting the stage for a special session this spring....

The Pentagon is looking into alleged misuse of government credit cards after a Congressional report and testimony documented millions of dollars of unpaid debt....

It's down to the wire for the Gila River Tribe and the city of Mesa for a $350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium....

The FBI on Monday arrested a Laguna Pueblo officer for allegedly raping a female prisoner on a road in New Mexico....

A Minnesota man has paid $4,000 in fines to the Red Lake Ojibwe Band for trespassing on the tribe's reservation....

A public-private enterprise in Utah is aimed at increasing Indian foster homes....

The Klamath Tribe of Oregon is criticizing a Congressional proposal that provides aid to farmer in the Klamath Basin but no funds for fish and wildlife....

An attorney for imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier went before the Supreme Court on Monday to tell of her struggles to get information about her now dead husband out of the federal government....

"Sometimes offense is the best defense. That appears to be what some innovative Native American Indian students at the University of Northern Colorado had in mind....

A group challenging the Muckleshoot Tribe of Washington is criticizing an environmental analysis of a proposed amphitheater on reservation land....

A study sponsored by the the United Tribes of Wisconsin cites increased jobs and revenue from tribal casinos....

A group which claims to be successor to the historic Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is hoping to develop a golf course and resort....

Computer systems at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Minerals Management Service and the U.S....

The Navajo Nation is instituting a reservation-wide 3 percent sales tax on April 1....

The Senate Judiciary Committee of the Colorado Legislature has voted unanimously to approve an Indian child welfare bill....

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune: "Either late this week or after a two-week break, the US Senate will get back to considering its energy bill....

In an editorial, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader praises a Native woman for being a "trailblazer" who "shook up South Dakota" in her fight to change Indian mascots....

"The Navajo Health Care System Corporation Board of Directors would like to respond to comments that have appeared recently in the local media, specifically, the Navajo Times, the Gallup Independent and The Farmington Daily Times. Some comments have taken the focus off of the hard work that we, our CEO, our attorney and our corporation staff have been trying to do, and inappropriately placed it on our CEO and our attorney personally....

A dispute over the status of a parcel of land in New Mexico is being fought in state courts....

Former Seminole Chief Jim Billie entered his Florida tribe into a number of business deals that have resulted in little or no payoff....

The McQueen School in the village of Kivalina, Alaska, reopened on Monday after being closed for two weeks....

Alaska Native corporations are bankrolling a campaign called "Let Us Decide" to force the subsistence issue....

"On Feb....

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A year ago this week, the Department of Interior's top trust reform official told members of a Congressional committee that the Bush administration wanted to settle the Individual Indian Money (IIM) class action that has dragged out for more than five years....

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A group called Casinos No! met on Sunday to fight proposed casinos in Maine....

The way Joe DeLorenzo, a former Rhode Island state legislator, tells it, he was just being nice when he arranged a meeting between the Narragansett Tribe and a casino company....

"I absolutely love it when readers take pen in hand to voice their concerns with me....

An attorney for imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier will argue today before the Supreme Court on the federal government's alleged coverup regarding the death of her husband....

In a Federal Register notice published today, he Bureau of Indian Affairs sets aside its decision to take 165 acres of land into trust for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut....

The Bush administration will scale back a policy aimed at reducing pollution from aging power plants, reports The Washington Post....

A study published last month in the Journal of Pediatrics links secondhand smoke to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)....

Citing a family illness, Stacey Sanchez has resigned as chair of the New Mexico Commission on Indian Affairs....

Ramy Brooks will take home a $55,000 check for placing second in the 2002 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race....

The McQueen School in Kivalina, Alaska, is reopening today with a new security officer and five new teachers....

You either love 'em or hate 'em but people can't stop talking about a group of students at the University of Colorado who have nicknamed their intramural basketball team "The Fighting Whities." But some question whether the talking is doing any good....

Arthur Andersen employees began mass-deleting e-mails related to failed energy company Enron last October, setting off a wave of document destruction that didn't end until the government sent a subpoena for the records....

Native American families in Utah are younger, larger and are often headed by single mothers, according to the Census 2000....

"Today there are few special interests richer than the gambling tribes. They have spread casinos across the nation that generate an estimated $12 billion annually....

The Gila River Tribe and the city of Mesa are competing for the chance to host a new $350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium....

Marie Dementoff has become the first women elected to a leadership position for an Alaska Native service organization....

Standford Benally has big dreams of opening a restaurant in Shiprock, New Mexico....

They said it wasn't over and it's not....

Terminated in the 1950s, the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians lost its reservation and has been fighting to get some land back ever since....

Sandia Pueblo and Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico support a strict arsenic in drinking water standard but their neighbors in Albuquerque don't seem to agree....

Attorneys for 300,000 American Indian trust fund beneficiaries are questioning whether the Department of Interior has sent checks to everyone who deserves them....

The Supreme Court today declined to hear a case challenging the authority of the Hoopa Valley Tribe of California....

The Senate might subpoena Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge to force him to testify on national security....

Eight private companies hoping to store nuclear waste on Skull Valley Goshute Reservation of Utah have not given the tribe $1.4 million, a spokesperson said....
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