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The Week in Review
ending March 23
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Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo.
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The true accounting
Mandated by federal law, the Department of
Interior's efforts to tell tribes and
individual Indians how much money they are
owed have failed to resolve the simmering
dispute.
On the tribal side, a new law is aimed at
encouraging settlement of the trust accounts.
It may have little effect as tribes use
litigation as leverage against the government.
Such a strategy has so far worked on
the individual side, but the Bush administration
thinks it has the Cobell class action beat.
While the Clinton administration believed it could
win on appeal, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton
and her top aides are banking on the historical
accounting for vindication.
Get the Story:
Bush
administration bets on accounting (3/18)
Trust fund
check figures doubted (3/18)
BIA, MMS
remain offline (3/19)
Trust
accounting looms for tribes (3/20)
Elouise
Cobell's millions (3/20)
Tribes meet to discuss sacred lands
Tribal leaders and activists met in Washington, D.C.,
this week to tackle one of the most pressing issues
facing Indian Country.
They walked away with encouragement from noted
author and historian Vine Deloria Jr., who said
the fight to protect sacred sites seems to
never end.
At least one tribe has prevailed in the court
system while the Bush administration has
reconvened a federal workgroup to
find ways to protect sites administratively.
Get the Story:
Supreme Court
declines tribal challenge (3/19)
McCaleb to
start sacred site task force (3/20)
Tribes push
action on sacred sites (3/21)
Sacred site
panel revived (3/21)
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