The Week in Review
ending May 26
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President Bush.
Arlington National Cemetery.
May 28, 2001.
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Energy policy comes to Indian Country
It was Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's turn
to promote President Bush's national energy policy
and what better way to do it than with oil, bison,
and an Indian tribe?
That's what happened when Norton visited the Osage
Nation in Oklahoma and proclaimed that a low-producing
oil field which happens
to be home to a bison herd is a sign that
development and a healthy environment can co-exist.
Never mind that the tribe has filed
a $2.5 billion lawsuit against Norton's department
alleging financial mismanagement of their
trust assets.
But neither Norton nor Osage Chairman Charles Tillman
were interested in scuttling as they traipsed across
a tallgrass prairie which certainly was filled with
grass that wasn't necessarily too tall. Either way,
Norton admitted that Indian Country needs better
accounting systems but in the meantime, why not
just keep drilling?
Get the Story:
Ute Tribe ready
to drill new tribal land (5/21)
Norton to meet
with Osage leader (5/23)
In The Hoop: Oil, Bison, and Indians, Part I
(5/23)
Norton: Indian
Country won't get ripped off (5/24)
In The Hoop: Oil, Bison, and Indians, Part II
(5/24)
Norton:
Cooperation not conflict (5/25)
Osage oil not so
good for water (5/25)
Everyone loves a deserter
Politicians switching affiliations isn't normally something
to get too excited about but when Senator Jim Jeffords
of Vermont left the Republican party to become an
Independent, it was all the rage this week in the
Beltway and beyond.
The move gave Indian Country a chance to remember
that Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell did something
similar back in 1995, when he left the Democratic
party to join the GOP. But unlike that switch,
Jeffords' has changed the balance of power in the
Senate and will have an effect on leadership,
legislation, and some of President Bush's
more controversial agendas.
Get the Story:
Deja Ben
Nighthorse Campbell (5/23)
Jeffords delays
party announcement (5/24)
Campbell says
Bush agenda will suffer (5/24)
Campbell: No bed
of roses for Jeffords (5/24)
Miller denies
switch to GOP (5/24)
Domenici ready
to be a minority (5/24)
Shift in Senate
means changes for Indian Country (5/25)
Jeffords jumps
ship (5/25)
Its win-win-win
for Inouye (5/25)
more stories
There's still more to read in the recap
of the top stories.
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