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The Week in Review
ending May 27
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A protester is led out of cloud of tear gas.
Lima, Peru.
Photo © AP.
 
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BIA tunes in
In a move that surprised Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell and many others, BIA headman Kevin Gover endorsed the Senator's bill that would rid the BIA of the duty of recognizing tribes. Gover's submitted testimony indicated the Bureau would not support the bill, but he changed his mind and told the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs this week that he's done all he can to make the recognition process more manageable.

If passed, the new bill would create a special commission whose sole purpose is to finish in 12 years what the BIA officially started back in 1978. Can they do it? Will there be the same type of litigation and problems the BIA has seen? We'll all have to wait and see...

Get the Story:
BIA eases recognition process (Tribal Law 5/22)
Gover wants BIA out of nastiness (Tribal Law 5/25)
Key provisions of recognition bill (Tribal Law 5/25)
Quinault oppose Cowlitz recognition (Tribal Law 5/22)

Towns turn on
Speaking of problems with the BIA, people in Connecticut definitely have some. Everyone from towns folk to town leaders to state officials are getting involved. Local town leaders want help from the BIA but only AG Richard Blumental is likely to get a real meeting with the Bureau. 60 Minutes aired an update on the situation that was less an update and more of a reminder of how little the mainstream media knows about Indian issues. That didn't stop one town leader from continuing to criticize Kevin Gover, nor the Mashantucket Pequot from meeting with famed lawyer Johnnie Cochran over a possible lawsuit regarding the book Without Reservation. Can't we all just get along?

Get the Story:
The Pequot Letters (The Talking Circle 5/22)
Lawmakers to discuss Pequots (Tribal Law 5/22)
State seeks BIA meeting (Tribal Law 5/23)
BIA: No assistance to states (Tribal Law 5/24)
60 Minutes provides little insight (The Talking Circle 5/24)
Towns watch 60 Minutes (The Talking Circle 5/24)
Town: Gover a 'mockery' (The Talking Circle 5/25)
If the tribe does not fit, you must acquit (Tribal Law 5/25)

Toledo and Fijians turns out
Alejandro Toledo, former candidate for President of Peru, officially dropped out of the race this week, guaranteeing incumbent Alberto Fujimori a victory in the May 28th run-off election. Everyone except his administration has questioned the validity of the electoral proces and the election software but the show went on, despite international objection as well as local protest. Protesters gathered all throughout the country with violence occuring in Lima. Someone will be elected, will anyone recognize him?

The rebel coup sponsored by indigenous Fiji businessman George Speight and brought to you by various web sites continued to heat up this week as the highly respected tribal chiefs tried to call for a peace to the situation. Speight rejected their advances and the fight continued on well into the weekend.

And no, the BIA isn't going to get involved in any of these situations...

Get the Story:
Toledo withdraws from election (Global 5/23)
Toledo pressures government (Global 5/24)
Peruvians protest election (Global 5/26)
Chiefs support President (Global 5/24)
Rebels reject chiefs' plan (Global 5/26)

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