Tuesday, January 7, 2003
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Trust fund accounting scaled back
Department of Interior officials have backed away from pledges to conduct a full historical accounting of money owed to more than 500,000 American Indians....
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Tribal consultation still troubling at Interior
After months of talks with tribal leaders, the Department of Interior has arrived at a less than surprising conclusion: consulting with Indian Country consumes a significant amount of time and resources....
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Norton files Indian trust reform plans
The Bush administration on Monday unleashed more than 200 pages of what it said was part of an "ongoing" push to improve the management of the broken Indian trust....
HIV rates high for Native drug users
Research published in the Canadian Medical Journal documents a high rate of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, among Native drug users in Vancouver, British Columbia....
Yellow Bird: Listen up roaming deer!
"Over the weekend, as my daughter and I were cruising the interstate, three deer jumped out in front of the car....
ANWR proponents have high hopes
Supporters of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are hopeful this year will be the year Congress authorizes development....
N.D. tribes protest education cut
Tribes in North Dakota passed a resolution calling on the state to restore an Indian education post....
Wash. tribe pays to move tribal members
The Stillaguamish Tribe of Washington has spent nearly $5 million to relocate 27 families from a village being torn down to build a casino, The Everett Herald reports....
Crow ceremony opens legislative session
Members of the Crow Tribe of Montana were on hand on Monday for the opening session of the 2003 state legislative session....
Navajo mother goes on trial for murder
A federal judge in Arizona today opens the trial of a Navajo woman accused of murdering three of her six children at their home on the Navajo Nation....
Lawmakers vote to repeal casino law
Lawmakers in Connecticut voted to repeal a law that paved the way for Indian gaming....
Fishkill blamed on Norton water policy
The California Department of Fish and Game has released a report blaming the recent deaths of more than 30,000 fish on Secretary of Interior Gale Norton....
Daschle is not running for president
Senator Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota), one of the leading Congressional critics of the Bush administration's trust reform efforts, does not plan to seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004....
Martin is acting assistant secretary
Aurene Martin has been named acting head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton announced on Monday....
Native GRAMMY award nominees announced
The nominations for the 45th annual GRAMMY awards were announced this morning, including the category Best Native American Music album....
DOI to perform statistical sampling
The Bush administration will not perform an accounting of land, mineral and other trust assets owned by more than 500,000 Indian beneficiaries....
Griles: No evidence of trust fund loss
Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles will not settle the Cobell trust fund lawsuit because "there is no supporting evidence" that Indian beneficiaries have been cheated out of billions of dollars, The New York Times reports....
Court official demands documents
A court investigator for the Indian trust fund lawsuit is threatening to refer a government attorney for disciplinary action for her refusal to provide documents related to an historical accounting....
BLM moves to seize Shoshone livestock
The Bureau of Land Management in Nevada is moving to seize more livestock belonging to two Western Shoshone sisters who refuse to pay grazing fees on land they say belongs to their tribe....
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