The Week in Review
ending November 3
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Day of the Dead ceremony
for massacred Indians.
Acteal, Mexico.
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Contempt seems near for Norton
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is apt to
talk of the four C's: consultation, cooperation,
communication and conservation.
With a federal judge beating down her back over
the trust fund, she might be soon adding another C.
Contempt.
Nine months on the job, Norton has become
entrenched in problems her predecessor never fixed, and
for some new ones.
But whatever the source, U.S. District Judge
Royce Lamberth made it clear he would hold her
and other officials, attorneys and management
accountable for the actions, no matter who is
in the White House.
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Action on
Norton urged 'on all fronts' (10/29)
Norton views
broken trust fund system (10/29)
Nobody's fault
by Norton's (10/29)
Trust fund
defense team scrapped (10/30)
Judge:
Norton's actions 'contemptuous' (10/30)
Judge ready to
hold Norton in contempt (10/31)
Interior promises
trust fund defense (10/31)
Norton given
fair warning (10/31)
Norton's
defense off to a 'bad start' (11/2)
Indian education in spotlight
Nearly 3,000 educators, administrations
and leaders gathered in Montana this week
for the annual National Indian Education
Association convention.
Judging by a Congressional report
and an address by NIEA President
Carol Ann Heart, there was good reason
for the event. Test scores, poor facilities
drop out rates and other social problems
are hampering the education of
young Natives throughout the country,
according to the report and
Heart.
Get the Story:
GAO report
finds failing BIA schools (10/29)
Norton speaks
at education conference (10/29)
NIEA identifies
challenges, goals (10/30)
Indians not
found in Mont. schools (10/30)
Educator: Low
scores 'depressing' (10/30)
Mont. Indian
students said in 'crisis' (10/31)
Indian mascots
discussed (10/31)
Pueblo school
improves testing (10/31)
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