The Week in Review
ending November 4
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Campaigns heat up
The elections this year are coming to a close but
the candidates campaigned this week like
there was no tomorrow.
And with the Presidency still up for grabs and several races around
the country being closely watched, we decided to present
a series of skeptical guides to a couple of the most interesting
ones. We took a look at George W. Bush, Al Gore, Ralph Nader, and the
candidates for Senate in New York and Washington and considered
their views, if any, on Indian issues.
With the exception of Rick Lazio,
the candidates themselves focused on everyone but
Native Americans in the last week of campaigning. The Lazio campaign
defended themselves against accusations of racism by
tribes in New York.
Meanwhile, Bush defended his character as his
past personal life became news once again. The "last-minute"
revelation of a 24-year-old drunk-driving arrest appeared not to have
much of a negative effect on his campaign today.
Get the Story:
Voters'
Guide: The President (10/30)
Voters'
Guide: Washington State (10/31)
Voters' Guide: The
President, Part II
Voters'
Guide: New York State (11/1)
Voters'
Guide: The President, Part III (11/1)
State
battles on breaching (10/30)
Where
is LaDuke's Indian support? (10/30)
Bush
hits New Mexico today (10/30)
Gore
to meet The Queen (11/1)
Pequot
Tribe gets out the vote (11/1)
Ventura
urges vote with conscience (11/1)
Clinton
/ Gore blamed for fires (11/2)
LETTER:
Vote for Pequot probe (11/2)
Voters
not concerned with Indian issues (11/2)
Comic
pulled for Bush drug reference (11/2)
Mohawk
Council says Lazio ad is racist (11/3)
Bush:
What I did was wrong (11/3)
Bush v. Texas
Tribes (11/3)
DOE turns over a new leaf, maybe...
The return of 84,000 acres of land to the Northern
Ute Tribe of Utah has been hailed as a positive
development in the relationship between the government,
specifically the Department of Energy,
and tribes.
The two came to an agreement not only over land
but over the cleanup of uranium waste in the state.
And with the Department revising its tribal policies,
it looks like the DOE's future in Indian Country
is looking up.
Or maybe not, depending on whom one believes. While
tribal leaders in the Northwest are taking a "wait and see"
approach to the DOE's policies, others are not so
generous. The Department was criticized for wasting
time and money at nuclear sites.
Get the Story:
Land
returned to Ute Tribe (11/1)
DOE
revises tribal policies (11/1)
Report:
DOE wasting cleanup money (11/2)
More
waste cited at nuclear site (11/3)
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other top stories
of the week.
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