Monday, January 28, 2002
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Tribes from Maine to Florida set for policy gathering
The United South and Eastern Tribes (USET) kicks off its annual policy
conference today with an eye on a number of national and regional
issues....
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Gaming commission ignoring Norton order
The nation's Indian gaming regulators have thumbed their nose at
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and are refusing to shut down their
Internet connections unless a court investigator orders them to do so....
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EDS rewrite includes bigger focus on tribes
Once tribes had time to digest Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's
controversial proposal to create a new Indian trust agency, a large focus
of their criticism was her reliance on the documents generated by a
management consulting firm she hired to make sense of the debacle....
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The Week in Review
Department of Interior makes small step towards
royalty release, Alaska Natives criticize Indian
trust overhaul, Bush administration stamps trust
reform, and progress in Indian health considered
lacking....
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NIGC to Norton: We won't shut down
The following is the text of a letter National Indian Gaming Commmission
Chairman Montie R....
Letter: Stop Native Hawaiians
"Here in Connecticut, we were aghast to learn that the Mashantucket
Pequots became a federally recognized tribe through an Act of Congress
instead of having to pass muster at the Bureau of Indian Affairs....
Indian Market draws repeat visitors
How many people visit the Santa Fe Indian Market every year? According
to the first study of its kind, not as many as expected....
Mescalero election being contested
Mark Chino was president of the Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico
for a brief short weeks last year before the tribe's council invalidated the
election that secured him the top spot....
Cheney lawsuit on records 'highly likely'
The General Accounting Office (GAO) is close to suing Vice President Dick
Cheney for his refusal to turn over documents related to the national
energy task force he chaired....
John Potter: The 'Real' Indians
"I don’t know much about the upcoming Winter Olympics, which is
something of a shame, I guess, since they’re going to be held practically
in my own back yard....
Editorial: Praise on recognition push
In an editorial today, The Norwich Bulletin praises Rep Rob Simmons
(R-Conn.) for making Indian issues a top focus of his Congressional
efforts....
Another Interior employee in deadly crash
A Department of Interior employee with a record of driving under the
influence of alcohol was involved in an accident in New Mexico, on
Friday, killing two couples from Nebraska in a head-on collision....
Letter: Breaching Indian trust
"By virtue of the Indian Overseer Act, 1821, establishing a trust
relationship with the tribes when we took their land into trust, the state
has an additional fiduciary duty to Connecticut's tribes....
Jodi Rave: Support Native holiday
"About this time last year, one of my Lakota uncles called me at work....
Mills no stranger to racism
At the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, Oglala Lakota athlete Billy Mills won the
gold medal for the 10,000-meter run....
Indian group urging boycott of site
The American Indian Center of Indianapolis, Indiana, is calling for a
boycott of the Angel Mounds State Historic Site to protest the
reassignment of the site's only Native American worker....
Report card grades Congress web sites
The Congress Online Project, an initiative funded by the Pew Charitable
Trusts, today will release the results of its "report card" on the web sites
offered by members of Congress....
Sioux tribe, school to hold games again
The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of South Dakota and a local school have
agreed to hold basketball games again....
Death forces community to take on race
The 1999 death of Robert Many Horses, a member of the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, has forced the community of Mobridge to
take a look at its racial divide, an effort some in the town believe has
seen success....
Secrecy surrounds Oneida discussions
The Oneida Nation, the state of New York and two New York counties
have begun talking again about the tribe's long-running land claim....
Report on Shoshone rights sent to Bush
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has sent its draft
report on the aboriginal rights of Western Shoshone tribal members to
the Bush administration, Newsweek reports in its February 4 "Periscope"
column....
Pueblo family forced to bury twice
The family of a deaf Laguna Pueblo woman was forced to hold two burial
ceremonies for her because of a state oversight....
Paper takes a look at a year of Norton
How did Secretary of Interior Gale Norton do in her first year in public
office? Not that bad, if you ask The Denver Post, which reviews the
home-grown former attorney general's twelve months at the top....
Norton gift received, free of anthrax
As a Cabinet official, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton receives a lot of
gifts....
GOP request has Alaska Natives fuming
Republican lawmakers in the Alaska Legislature have asked Secretary of
Interior Gale Norton to rescind recognition of more than 200 Alaska
Native tribes and villages, a request that has Native leaders fuming....
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