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February 27, 2006 NCAI meets in Washington for winter session Correction/Clarification: NCAI is proposing a partnership with the White House to fight methamphetamine use and drug trafficking. NCAI President Joe Garcia said the administration is receptive to the idea. The... Meskwaki Tribe ordered to reconsider critic's case The Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa violated the due process rights of a former council member, the tribe's appellate court judge ruled earlier this month. Chief Justice Henry M. Buffalo said... Non-Indians urged to respect Tulalip Tribes police The sheriff in Snohomish County, Washington, is urging non-Indians not to challenge the authority of the Tulalip Tribes police. Non-Indians, backed by a Republican state senator, plan to protest tribal... Program to help urban Indians become homeowners Urban Indians in Great Falls, Montana, who want to become homeowners should be able to get help through a new program. The Urban Indian Homeownership Initiative in Great Falls is... Lac Courte Oreilles drug sting hits close to home A federal investigation of drug trafficking on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation in Wisconsin netted the arrests and convictions of non-Indian gang members but also brought tribal members and... BIA audit found problems with Red Lake police force A Bureau of Indian Affairs audit in 2004 found significant problems with the Red Lake Nation's police department, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. The BIA conducted the audit at the... Red Lake secretary Judy Roy seeks chairman's post Judy Roy, the secretary of the Red Lake Nation of Minnesota, announced she is running for chairman of the tribe. Roy has served as secretary since 1994. She said... Key witness in death of Native man killed in accident A former police officer who was convicted for shooting Ojibwe protester Dudley George to death was killed in a car accident on Saturday, just two weeks before he was... Winnebago woman leads new Indian business group Dee St. Cyr, a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, has been elected as president of the new American Indian National Chamber of Commerce. St. Cyr helped organize the... Texas group critical of DeLay cleared in IRS probe Texans for Public Justice, a nonprofit group that has been critical of indicted Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), has been cleared in an Internal Revenue Service probe that was requested... Alabama-Coushatta Tribe still waiting on big payout In October 2002, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims recommended to Congress that the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe be compensated $270.6 million for the loss of about 5.5 million acres in east... Narragansett Tribe removes 100 people from rolls The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island has removed at least 100 people from the rolls, saying they fail to meet membership criteria. The group, including former tribal council member Yvette... Editorial: Supreme Court opens peyote to non-Indians "House Bill 60, which would allow members of federally recognized Indian tribes to use peyote for religious services, is on his desk awaiting his signature. The bill was drafted... Yellow Bird: Non-Indian gaming makes headlines "Eight Nebraska meat-processing plant workers shared in a $365 million Powerball jackpot last weekend; they'll each get about $15.5 million after taxes. And North Dakota players shared in some big... Harjo: NY Times story on drugs accurate but untrue "If The New York Times' articles about Indian country harboring drug runners were wildly inaccurate, it would be easier to explain how they create a false impression. As it is,... Opinion: Indian trust a bigger swindle than Abramoff "The prodigious tentacles of Abramoff's operation are more convoluted than the leftover entrails from a botched pig autopsy performed by an inebriated first-year vet student. Some pundits are saying that... Mark Trahant: Health care spending on the rise "A new report last week makes the case (yet again) that this country is going to have to reform its health care system. The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid... |