Tuesday, January 22, 2002
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Trust reform update sheds some light
As tribal leaders work to come up with alternatives to the Bush
administration's proposed, and opposed, reorganization of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, a key question about the status of various trust reform
projects has been raised....
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A year of backsteps under Bush
President George W Bush took office a year ago this week with little
to go on in terms of Indian policy....
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The Week in Review
Trust reform project gets new direction, Secretary of
Interior Gale Norton's contempt trial finds one too, Interior
computer shutdown stays the same, and tribal
counsultation does as well....
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Tribes meeting for consultation in Alaska
The Department of Interior is hosting its sixth consultation on a proposal
to create an Indian trust agency....
Native performers slated at Olympics
Walela and Robbie Robertson will be joining Sting, Lee Ann Rimes, the
Dixie Chicks and a host of others for the Opening Ceremony at the Winter
2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah....
Democrat offering energy proposal
Sen John Kerry (D-Mass.) is offering his own alternative to the Bush
administration's energy plan....
BLM ordered to rewrite drilling plan
The Department of Interior's Board of Land Appeals has ordered the Bureau of
Land Management to rewrite parts of a gas drilling plan in Wyoming....
Drilling backed in Clinton monument
The Department of Interior last Thursday released an environmental
analysis that finds no significant impact should eight natural gas wells be
drilled in and around a national monument created in the last month of
the Clinton administration....
National Park Service ranger can talk again
Thanks to a settlement brokered through the Office of Special Counsel,
an independent federal agency that works on government whistleblower
cases, a National Park Service ranger is now allowed to speak freely
about his job and his concerns as a ranger in Yellowstone National Park....
Women's business meeting set
The Cheyenne-Arapaho tribal complex near El Reno, Oklahoma, will play
host this Thursday to a workshop for women entrepreneurs....
GOP Congressman has doubts on Yucca
The Bush administration's move to send the nation's nuclear waste to
Nevada might have a more difficult time clearing the GOP-controlled
House if sentiments voiced by a Congressional leader are any indication....
Solution to waste poses problems
The Northern Ute Tribe of Colorado is helping contribute funds to clean up
a 130-acre pile of radioactive mine waste in Utah but how exactly to do
that is still under debate....
Slain woman may be Native
Law enforcement in Seattle, Washington, are seeking help in identifying
a woman found dead in a park restroom last week....
Tribe seeking to supply lottery machines
The Oneida Nation is hoping the state of New York will be
tribally-supplied video lottery machines....
Shredding reported despite probe
A former executive of failed energy giant Enron said on Monday that
document shredding was taking place as recently as last week despite
the company being under a federal investigation....
Tigua Tribe helping employees
The Tigua Tribe of Texas is working to try and make expected layoffs of
hundreds of employees less harsh by offering severance packages and
post-employment aid....
Navajo candidate wants helicopter
Navajo Nation presidential candidate Joe Shirley wants to ensure the
voice of tribal members on the three-state reservation is being heard....
Babbitt writing about Interior
Buried at the end of an Arizona Republic article about a new book by
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is a tidbit about former
Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt....
Donors sought for Native child
The Montana Marrow Program is holding a blood drive today in Billings for
Arianna Jordan, a 1-year-old Native child with osteopetrosis....
Health meeting starting in Mont.
The Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council, in partnership with the
Indian Health Service, is hosting a three-day roundtable in Billings,
Montana, to discuss health care disparities on reservations....
'Reds' mascot in Colo. opposed
A group of Native Americans in Colorado is calling on Eaton High School
to get rid of its "Reds" logo, which features an Indian man with a large
nose and a feather in his hair....
Norton releases budget 'good news'
When President Bush releases his fiscal year 2003 budget on February 4,
it is expected he will increase funding for terrorist-related programs
while other areas will see little or no growth....
Native man denied by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court today declined to review of an appeal by an American
Indian man convicted of the same crime under both tribal and federal
jurisdiction....
Ariz. tracks seek slot machines
Arizona tribes will seek to fight a proposal by four race tracks to add
video slot machines to their facilities, said Ivan Makil, president of the
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community....
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