BIA Approves Two Gaming Sites, Rejects Two Others

Gale Courey Toensing
September 02, 2011
The head of the BIA has approved land into trust applications for two gaming sites in California and rejected two others in California and New Mexico...

Assistant Secretary Echo Hawk Visits With Wounded Marine

ICTMN Staff
July 20, 2011
Marine Corporal Phillip Baldwin, Shoshone-Bannock, of Ft. Hall, Idaho had a special visitor recently while being treated at Bethesda Naval Hospital...

Bush-Era Commutable-Distance Gaming Rule Nixed

Gale Courey Toensing
July 19, 2011
`A controversial Bush-era guidance memorandum that invented a new rule for off-reservation Indian gaming has finally been shredded...

New Mexico Indian Tribes Oppose Jemez Pueblo's Anthony Project

ICTMN Staff
June 15, 2011
New Mexico's Indian tribes are ganging up against the Jemez Pueblo in opposition of its bid to partner with a Santa Fe art dealer Gerald Peters to build a $55 million hotel and cas...

Echo Hawk's Memo Overturns Effective Ban on Off-Reservation Gaming

ICTMN Staff
June 14, 2011
Interior Assistant Secretary Larry Echo Hawk, the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs , rescinded a controversial 2008 memorandum by the Bush Administration that effectively banne...

NCAI Native Resources Conference Comes to Wisconsin

ICTMN Staff
June 11, 2011
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) will turn Milwaukee, Wisconsin into the epicenter of Indian Country for its mid-year conference on "Native Resources: Tribal Cultur...

First Lady Remembers Native Youth

Rob Capriccioso
June 06, 2011
Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk joined the First Lady in planting of the three sisters in the White House Garden. (Photo courtesy of U.S...

No Acknowledgment for Choctaw Nation of Florida

ICTMN Staff
April 25, 2011
The Choctaw Nation of Florida’s 77 members received the news on April 22 from Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk that they were not acknowledged as a federally reco...
Mark Trahant

Setting a New Standard for Tribal-US Relations

What’s my take away from the White House Tribal Nations Conference? Easy. This is an administration that actually believes the United States government must represent all of the people, including American Indians and Alaska Natives....

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Echo Hawk Speaks at Child Abuse Prevention Conference

ICTMN Staff
April 06, 2011
Larry Echo Hawk , an enrolled member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and assistant secretary of Indian Affairs for the U.S...

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