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In The Hoop
TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2002

Welcome to In The Hoop, Indianz.Com's occasional column about assorted Indian issues.

Back From The Grave
In case you haven't noticed, the Bureau of Indian Affairs web site is back up and running!

The scary thing is that it looks exactly the same as it did when U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth on December 5, 2001, ordered the Department of Interior to protect Indian trust systems. The BIA, unfortunately, didn't use the five-month hiatus to redesign this Dom Nessi nightmare, which was launched a year ago this week.

But if you're looking for press releases from 2001 and old budget documents, click away!

Miss Indian 9-11
If you were headed to Washington, D.C., next week to catch the Miss Indian USA pageant, cancel your plans! The American Indian Heritage Foundation has postponed the event till this fall.

The reason? Well one disappointed competitor was informed that the AIHF, as a non-profit, is currently unable to gain access to certain funds due to the Bush administration's focus on routing out organizations which support terrorists.

AIHF, of course, is far from a terrorist group. And the most harm a Miss Indian winner has done was organize a successful drive to put Jim Thorpe on a box of Wheaties. (Thanks Anna McKibben!)

So Mr. Attorney General John Ashcroft, if you're reading this, let these Indian women compete!

Come One, Come All
If you're an immigrant (legal or otherwise) encountering problems with your traveling papers, you've got a friend in Maynard T. George.

The self-described Ojibwe traditional "King" has made a name for himself by adopting nearly 80 Asian and Middle Eastern men and women into his family in order to prevent them from being deported. He tells The Boston Globe: "In the eyes of my people, everyone in Canada who is not Native American is an immigrant."

But some of George's peers on the Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation of Ontario, Canada, are finding it hard to explain his press-grabbing actions. "He's a cousin of mine, so I try to defend him, but there is only so much you can do," said Rosalie Winnifred Manning.

The Canadian government doesn't buy George's use of old treaties, either. "They say they have certain rights that nobody ever negotiated away," said a spokesman for the Department of Indian Northern Affairs.

"If you have a treaty from 1760, how many people can tell you the content of that now?"

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