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The Week in Review
ending November 10
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Justice in Brazil:
A member of the Pataxo Tribe celebrates
after guilty verdict for four men.
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Interior gears up for trust fund defense
Ever since being blasted by a federal judge,
the government has been getting
ready to try and prove to him the Bush administration
will be able to fix the broken ship known
as the trust fund.
Whether that will happen is anyone's guess
but a key part of the response is a report Department of
Interior officials have been mulling over for
the past week. A consulting firm Secretary of
Interior Gale Norton hired has recommended
she appoint a single person to oversee
her department's reform efforts to prevent
them from failing.
Get the Story:
Griles taking
lead on trust reform (11/5)
Bad act for
Norton on trust fund (11/5)
Norton told to
appoint trust fund receiver (11/7)
Request for
trust fund probe rejected (11/7)
Norton hires
own defense lawyer (11/9)
McCaleb rescinds Clinton regulations
After 10 months of stalling by the Bush administration,
Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb this week
did what many tribal leaders had been fearing:
he revoked the land-into-trust regulations
they pushed him to accept.
In response to pressure from state and local
governments as well as non-Indians,
McCaleb instead has decided to write his own
set of the standards. He said he would
begin consulting with tribes on the new
rules, which are likely to be even more
strict than the ones the Clinton administration
finalized.
Get the Story:
McCaleb
revokes trust land standards (11/9)
Ron Allen:
States afraid of Indian power (11/9)
more stories
There's still more to read in the recap
of the top stories.
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