Commission can enforce rule regarding tribal smoke shops
(OKLAHOMA) -- A Mayes County judge has lifted a stay on an Oklahoma Tax Commission rule that limits the number of low-tax cigarettes wholesalers can sell to tribally licensed stores in counties along Oklahoma's borders with other states.
Native American Bank hush on president's leave
(MONTANA) -- Who's in charge of the bank? Native American Bank board leaders have yet to announce why the national bank's president was placed on administrative leave more than two weeks ago.
Last minute rush for election staff
(ARIZONA) -- What if you hold an election and no one wanted to run? That was a scenario that Edison Wauneka, director of the Navajo Election Administration, was looking at on Monday.
Stay for smoke shops is lifted
(OKLAHOMA) -- Six Mayes County smoke shops are now under an Oklahoma Tax Commission rule that limits the number of cigarettes that tribal smoke shops can receive.
27 grant applications seek funding from Sachem Fund
(CONNECTICUT) -- City officials received 27 applications totaling $921,049 for funding from the new Sachem Fund created by the city and the Mohegan Tribe to fund economic development, arts and historic preservation projects.
Nisqually tribe plans development at Lacey
(WASHINGTON) -- The Nisqually tribe has purchased another 30 acres of commercial property at Lacey, bringing its landholding at Hawks Prairie to 40 acres at a cost of about $20 million.
Becoming an economic guru
(ARIZONA) -- Jamie Fullmer has been there. As the former chairman of the Yavapai-Apache Nation, he knows exactly what it's like to try to strengthen a tribe's economic future while coping with the constraints of tribal leadership.
American Indian energy bar goes national
(SOUTH DAKOTA) -- America's craving for healthier foods has prompted a stampede of sorts for a modern version of a traditional Lakota food, made by a company on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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