...capacity (compliments of the BIA, provided they hold another election). Owen misled the BIA, the Interior Board of Indian Appeals, and the tribe's membership 12 times, claiming election planning was underway. The election they finally held...

...election." Laiti and other tribal members submitted an appeal to the federal Department of the Interior Board of Indian Appeals, but no ruling has been made. "The court has in some measure been waiting for the results of an election," Cesar...

...would hold an election, including claiming on numerous occasions to DIA members, the BIA, and the Interior Board of Indian Appeals, that they were working on redoing the election they disputed in 2001. On Nov. 20, 2002, some of DIA's members...

...tribe in federal court and with the Interior Board of Indian Appeals remained outstanding. It is regrettable the matter...Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Interior Board of Indian Appeals (IBIA) have been monitoring DIA's election since...

...officials interpreted the law to impose certain limits - but no blanket ban - on his herd. But the Interior Board of Indian Appeals later ruled against him, concluding that the law ``must be construed to prohibit non-Native entry into the reindeer...