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Florida Legislature reaches compromise on Seminole gambling revenues

6 May, 2009 | Author: Ryan Paul | Category: United States | Share: Digg | Facebook

TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s historic Hialeah Park racetrack would return. The Seminole Tribe’s Hard Rock casinos would keep their slot m...

Dems ask Justice to probe treatment of ‘freedmen’

5 May, 2009 | Author: Ryan Paul | Category: United States | Share: Digg | Facebook

WASHINGTON — A small group of powerful House Democrats has asked the Justice Department to investigate whether American Indian tribes are engagi...

Much at stake for tribes awaiting recognition

5 May, 2009 | Author: Ryan Paul | Category: United States | Share: Digg | Facebook

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Edna Doney Teske, 74, is Indian, but not officially. “They don’t recognize us as Native Americans,” said Tesk...

Former police detective sues chiefs, city for racial discrimination

1 May, 2009 | Author: Ryan Paul | Category: United States | Share: Digg | Facebook

A former Rapid City police detective has filed a federal lawsuit against Police Chief Steve Allender, former police chief Craig Tieszen, the police de...

Key charge dismissed in 1975 Pictou-Aquash slaying

30 Apr, 2009 | Author: Ryan Paul | Category: United States | Share: Digg | Facebook

A U.S. federal judge dismissed a key charge against one of two men accused in the 1975 slaying of a Canadian aboriginal activist and scheduled a heari...

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Announces $500 Million for Tribes

26 Apr, 2009 | Author: Ryan Paul | Category: United States | Share: Digg | Facebook

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says $500 million in federal stimulus money will go to American Indian tribes across the U.S. f...

Blackfeet business project receives grants

23 Feb, 2009 | Author: Ryan Paul | Category: United States | Share: Digg | Facebook

A Browning-based business may soon be getting the facelift it needs to manufacture materials for missiles for the U.S. Army at a reduced cost, along w...

Woman pleads guilty to casino bomb threat

20 Feb, 2009 | Author: Ryan Paul | Category: United States | Share: Digg | Facebook

COEUR d’ALENE — Sinead Shrae Ambro, 18, Plummer, entered a guilty plea in federal court on Friday to a charge of maliciously conveying fal...

Geronimo’s family file lawsuit naming Barack Obama

18 Feb, 2009 | Author: Ryan Paul | Category: United States | Share: Digg | Facebook

A popular conspiracy theory is making its way into a U.S. federal court. Descendants of Geronimo, the famous Apache chief, are suing President Barack ...

Standing Rock Sioux member gets key White House post

13 Feb, 2009 | Author: Ryan Paul | Category: United States | Share: Digg | Facebook

WASHINGTON – The White House announced Feb. 6 that Jodi Archambault Gillette has been named one of three deputy associate directors of the Office of...