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  • BIA comes under fire - again

    In one of the largest class action suits ever filed against the federal government, 300,000 Native Americans are demanding a full statement of their individual Indian Money Accounts from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

  • Navajo role model

    Diné CARE, the group monitoring environmental issues on the Navajo Nation, hires Christine Benally as its new director.

  • Navajos win round in coal mine war

    Navajos win a court victory against Peabody Coal Company's strip mine on the reservation, citing pollution and desecrated burial sites.

  • Indian gaming still in legal muddle

    The Supreme Court's decision in "Seminole vs. the State of Florida" is a clear victory for states' rights but a muddle for Indian gaming.

  • Navajos say no - then maybe - to casinos

    Navajos are undecided about whether to legalize gambling with all its potential money - and many problems.

  • I made $52,000 in 1994 and never bought a pair of shoes that whole year

    In her own words, an anonymous gambler describes how she got hooked on gambling at Arizona's Fort McDowell.

  • Life is a game, but bingo is serious

    Modern Indian gambling began with a lawsuit over bingo at New York's Oneida Nation, and bingo continues to be important to the tribe.

  • Gambling: A tribe hits the jackpot

    Gambling at Arizona's Fort McDowell has taken the Yavapai Indians from poverty to wealth in just three years.

  • Tribes beat back oil giants

    The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes refuse to let the Yellowstone Pipe Line Co. run a petroleum pipeline across the Flathead Reservation in Montana.

  • States and tribes

    A report from the National Conference of State Legislators, "States and Tribes: Building New Traditions," says state and tribal governments need to cooperate.

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