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In The Hoop
TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2002

Welcome to In The Hoop, Indianz.Com's occasional column about assorted Indian issues.

Thank God for that Internet shutdown!
A Department of Interior employee appeared in federal court in Montana on Monday to plead not guilty to defrauding the Bureau of Reclamation, The Billings Gazette reported today.

What is Roger Merle Schlosser, 52, charged with? Defrauding the agency's "right to honest work," according to the indictment. He allegedly used taxpayer dollars to view unnamed Internet sites for "his own personal amusement and gratification."

We don't want to know which sites provided him such "amusement" and "gratification" but we'd like to think it was In The Hoop.

Indian Office Gets New Leader
Congratulations Sam Cata of San Juan Pueblo! You've been named the new director of the the New Mexico Office of Indian Affairs.

This post was held by such luminaries as Regis Pecos of Cochiti Pueblo, who left after some run-ins with the law, and Terry Aguilar of San Ildefonso Pueblo, who left after some run-ins with the law. "We are the heart of Indian Country," Cata tells The Santa Fe New Mexican.

Cata hopes to improve tribal communication while the state's commissioners hope he can bring stability to the office. We wish him good luck.

Haskell is Still for Indians
Opening up summer classes at Haskell Indian Nations University to non-Indians is just an "IDEA," pleads school president Karen Swisher.

In a letter to The Lawrence Journal-World, Swisher clarifies a story which reported remarks she made on the issue. "Since offering classes to non-Indian people would be a drastic departure from Haskell's mission and purpose, it is a decision that is not to be taken lightly and certainly not without the involvement of the tribes and nations represented by our students and the Board of Regents," she writes.

So all you non-Indians itching to take classes, hold your horses. Swisher is only seeing if there is interest in the IDEA because someone else already raised the IDEA.

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