1.   Al-Qaida fighters who have escaped appear to have blended in with Pashtuns whose tribal lands straddle the Afghan-Pakistani border, Western and Pakistani officials said.

2.   An Oregon tribe lost a challenge to a law that lets a state governor veto some plans for gambling casinos on American Indian tribal land.

3.   And an albino buffalo was recently born on tribal land, another hint that the Creator is watching.

4.   And on some tribal lands, phone service is even rarer.

5.   And those public schools, which are built on tribal lands, have never really addressed the cultural needs of Indian students.

6.   But all of the new casinos being considered are off tribal lands, and the New York courts have ruled that such projects require legislative approval.

7.   But elsewhere, tribal land is etched in shades all over the national map, most of it in the West.

8.   But instead Congress opened up tribal lands to sale, trying to make commercial landowners out of individual Indians.

9.   But regulators say there is little chance casino-style gambling there will expand outside tribal lands.

10.   But Western Wireless counters that it should not be prevented from seeking to provide services on tribal lands simply because it is not Indian-owned.