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Protesters at the World
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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton spent this past weekend at a closed-door gathering with tribal leaders whose sole purpose in accepting her invitation was to kill her proposal to create a new Indian trust agency. As members of the task force trickled back into Washington, D.C., from the countryside, there was little to confirm the Bureau of Indian Trust Assets Management has been dropped. Tribal leaders who attended said they were pleased with the outcome of the meeting, the first of its kind, but said they would wait and see what Norton told Congress about it when she testifies about her controversial overhaul. Get the Story:
Trust Reform: Consulting on a blank page (1/28)
McCaleb making address to USET (1/28)
Tribal leaders clamor for EDS report (1/29)
Taking trust to a new level (1/30)
BITAM comments available for review (1/30)
Additional consultation meeting set (1/31)
Norton's weekend in the woods (2/1)
Norton sketches trust reform budget (2/1) Contempt trial resumes
After a short hiatus, the contempt trial of Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb kicked back into motion. Taking the stand for what has turned out to be reams of interesting testimony was Dom Nessi, the former Bureau of Indian Affairs official who sounded a warning last year about the state of trust reform. But his testimony was the least of Norton's worries as federal gaming regulators ignored her order to shut down their computer systems, hoping to avoid an Internet disconnect that has now entered its second month. Get the Story:
Gaming commission ignoring Norton (1/28)
McCaleb talks of termination of trust (1/29)
Navajo Nation approves royalty funds (1/30)
Letter: Enough is enough! (1/30)
Norton contempt trial resumes (1/31)
Norton wants reporting timeline changed (1/31)
Trust system takes center stage in contempt (2/1)
Norton renews push on private trust data (2/1) more stories
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