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A federal judge late last month ruled that the Department of Interior breached its fiduciary responsibilities to Indian beneficiaries for delaying payment of a trust fund....

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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....

Surplus homes from an Air Force base are being sent to several tribes to alleviate housing concerns....

"I am writing in regard to the two Aug....

The younger brother of guitar great Jimi Hendrix plans to file suit against the Hendrix family estate today, claiming he was denied a rightful share after their father died....

Indian lawmakers make up a quarter of the seats in Bolivia's new Congress, a first in history....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut saw a 28 percent increase in slot machine earnings last month but the amount was smaller than projected, The New London Day reports....

The Confederated Umatilla Tribes of Washington want a co-management role at the Hanford Reach National Monument....

The president of an Alaska Native non-profit corporation resigned this week....

The US Bureau of Justice has awarded the Navajo Nation Boys and Girls Clubs $500,000....

The Siksika First Nation of Alberta has taken a Canadian hotel chain to court to prevent damage to a glacier lake....

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation voted this week to change the spelling of the name of one of its most famous citizens....

The historic failures of the Indian trust fund system are rooted in racism, according to Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff in the landmark Cobell v. Norton lawsuit....

The 17 tribes of the Arizona Indian Gaming Association have launched a television ad campaign to convince voters to approve their casino ballot initiative....

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma is appealing an $8 million fine levied by federal Indian gaming regulators....

The Coeur d'Alene Tribe of i Idaho has reclaimed a key part of its history....

The Department of Justice has awarded Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants to tribes....

Supreme Court precedent dictates that tribes are the first in line when it comes allocation of scarce water resources....

The 81st annual Indian Market officially began in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Thursday....

Police in Alaska took 48 minutes to arrive at the home of an Alaska Native corporate executive who was killed earlier this month....

Members of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation of North Dakota still feel the effects of a decades-old decision to build the Garrison Dam on the Missouri River....

"American schoolchildren are taught the American myth that ours is "a nation of laws, not men." When I was a law student, my teachers attempted valiantly to have me regard the law as something larger than life, something reflecting ancient wisdom and administered by men (and the occasional woman) of great moral and intellectual integrity....

The Ely Shoshone Tribe is using $1.3 million in federal grants to build a 6,200-square-foot business and travel center....

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Tribes have jurisdiction over roads maintained by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a divided federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday....

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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered an Oglala Lakota family to stop planting and harvesting hemp on their South Dakota ranch after tests showed traces of marijuana and cocaine....

A Utah city declared August 14 "Navajo Code Talker Day" to honor one of its most noted residents, Code Talker Allen Dale June....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut saw a two percent drop in slot machine revenues last month compared to July 2001....

The Nebraska State Legislature approached the end of its special session on Wednesday with some final debate on Indian gaming....

Research being published in Nature ties two genetic mutations to the ability for humans to speak....

A $120 million loan secured by the Tulalip Tribes of Washington is the largest financing package in state history....

A city in New Mexico has approved a contract to lease water from the Jicarilla Apache Nation....

The Special House Commission to Study Gaming is holding 28 public hearings over a nine-month period to study the impact of gaming in Rhode Island....

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma has been ordered to close its four gaming facilities....

The Navajo Nation is proposing to spend $450,151 in the coming year to control animals on the three-state reservation....

Wisconsin state officials are upset that their talks with several tribes over a burial ground have become public....

The race for Arizona's 1st Congressional District is attracting attention from the national political parties....

The Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday suspended work on part of the $8 billion Everglades restoration project, a move the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida said was an attempt to put pressure on homeowners....

Members of Pennsylvania's Lena'pe Tribe are on a 330-mile canoe trip down the Delaware River....

"So you think your great-grandmother was a Cherokee Indian princess? Think again....

The Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma is protesting the removal of a project manager at one of the worst toxic waste sites in the country....

Government prosecutors on Wednesday filed a response to a court apology by a former Bureau of Indian Affairs employee who pleaded guilty to the murders of four people....

A member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota has been missing for more than a month, National Native News reports....

Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) lawsuit, is meeting with account holders in Oklahoma next week....

The Menominee Nation of Wisconsin has a new tough seat belt law....

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A casino company with close ties to the $10 billion Indian gaming industry was warned months in advance of a crucial stock plunge that its flagship product was illegal to operate in Oklahoma....

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Reports prepared in the 1990s by convicted accounting firm Arthur Andersen are playing a critical role in several trust fund disputes over the objections of tribes who say the shoddy work is being used against them....

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New Indian trust fund investigation released, Sioux tribal members challenge South Dakota voting laws, Makah Nation gets green light on whale hunt, and Alaska Natives lose a leader....

The Tohono O'odham Nation spans two countries and tribal members say U.S.-Mexico border policy is breaking them apart....

Ira Vandever grew up on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico and recalls being enthralled by his grandfather's experiences as a Code Talker in World War II....

"As part of my tireless, ongoing efforts, not only to enlighten, inform, and entertain you, but to also broaden your junk-food horizons as well, I thought I might seek out and review the 10 best donut shops in Portland....

"The Three Affiliated Tribes' request to conduct gaming on Lake Sakakawea in western North Dakota was turned down by the state....

Alaska Native leaders are reacting with caution about a suggestion to combine as many as 10 Native villages....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut has voted to keep an estimated 500 members on its tribal rolls....

The Kenai Natives Association of Kenai, Alaska, informed shareholders on August 1 that it is near bankruptcy....

Republican lawmakers in Montana are accusing Democrats of creating Indian-majority districts to favor Democrat candidates....

The Quinault Nation on Saturday welcomed more than 23 tribes to its Washington reservation, the final stop on a inter-tribal cultural exchange....

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska is drawing opposition for its plans to end crop-dusting on its reservation....

Talks to settle a land claim between the Oneida Nation of New York and the state have apparently fizzled, leading on anti-sovereignty and anti-treaty rights group to call them a full-scale fiasco....

The Bureau of Reclamation is consulting with several tribes about a burial site uncovered at a reservoir in northwest Kansas....

The Sealaska Heritage Institute of Alaska is receiving a private collection of more than 50 Native artifacts....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today praises a proposed study of Native Americans in South Dakota prisons....

The Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe is willing to settle its land claims with the state of Connecticut for a casino....

Members of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona voted down plans to build a $15.2 million museum in a tribal district....

Officials at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado won't disclose the location of about 400 tribal ancestors in their possession....

The Skull Valley Goshute Tribe of Utah has signed a lease with eight private utility companies to store up to 44,000 tons of nuclear waste on its reservation....

It took months of convincing, but the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho agreed to lend its name and culture for a new doll....

The Billings Gazette continues its ongoing series on the Nez Perce War of 1877....

All four members of the Oneida Nation's business committee are women, believed to be a first for the Wisconsin tribe....

Police in Alaska have discovered a note left by the woman they say fatally shot Alaska Native executive Glenn Godfrey on August 3....
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