Duane Big Eagle, chairman of the Crow Creek Tribe of South Dakota, went to Washington, D.C., last week to lobby for federal funding to fix the crumbling tribal school.

Big Eagle met with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He said officials there told him no money was available for new school construction. In fiscal year 2005, the Bush administration is cutting the account by $62 million.

Big Eagle also met with Sens. Tom Daschle and Tim Johnson, Democrats from South Dakota. He hopes they can find money to fix the aging school, which dates to the 1930s.

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