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The Week in Review
ending February 9
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Navajo children watch
Olympic torch in Utah.
February 4, 2002.
Photo © AP.
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Indian trust sat on a wall ...
After facing angry tribal leaders and an impatient federal judge
for the past two months, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton
appeared before a House committee this week to defend her
handling of the trust fund debacle.
The reviews from tribal leaders and Native Americans throughout
the country, however, were not glowing, as many described it
as a setback to their already fragile relationship.
This was a marked contrast to her well-received reception
before the National Congress of American Indians just a year ago.
Shortly after, as Indian Country has since
found out, trust had a great fall.
Will Congress, the courts and the administration be able to
put it back together again?
Get the Story:
Indian Country
lacks confidence in Norton (2/4)
On the Indian
trust bandwagon (2/4)
Tribes take
assault to Congress (2/6)
Dog and pony
show moves to Congress (2/7)
Norton dodges
questions at hearing (2/7)
Norton goes
before House panel (2/7)
Editorial: Take
trust from Interior (2/7)
Highlights:
Trust Fund Hearing (2/8)
Bush releases new federal budget
President Bush released his fiscal year 2003 budget this week,
dedicating significant funds to the military and national
security while cutting programs elsewhere.
As for the Department of Interior, there is an increase
in money for trust asset management and reform but little else.
Welfare, law enforcement construction and other programs are seeing cuts
while the level of funding for Bush's priority of
Indian education stays the same.
Bush himself is proposing to privatize nearly 70 schools
in what is being seen as an effort to strip the Bureau of
Indian Affairs of yet another one of its duties.
Get the Story:
Budget rollout
is today (2/4)
Trust drives
small increase in BIA budget (2/5)
Bush proposal
strips BIA of education (2/5)
Interior
security funds outlined (2/5)
Bush school
proposal criticized (2/5)
Budget
includes Pueblo monument funds (2/5)
NMAI funds
preserved in budget (2/5)
Budget pledges
Yucca Mountain funds (2/5)
ANWR funds
included again by Bush (2/5)
Nuclear
cleanup funds criticized (2/5)
Red light,
green light 1, 2, 3 (2/5)
Bush budget
focuses on defense (2/5)
Editorial:
Don't cut cleanup funds (2/7)
Editorial:
Nuclear push a joke (2/7)
O'Neill tears
up at budget hearing (2/8)
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