Tuesday, January 22, 2002

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As tribal leaders work to come up with alternatives to the Bush administration's proposed, and opposed, reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a key question about the status of various trust reform projects has been raised....

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President George W Bush took office a year ago this week with little to go on in terms of Indian policy....

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Trust reform project gets new direction, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's contempt trial finds one too, Interior computer shutdown stays the same, and tribal counsultation does as well....

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The Department of Interior is hosting its sixth consultation on a proposal to create an Indian trust agency....

Walela and Robbie Robertson will be joining Sting, Lee Ann Rimes, the Dixie Chicks and a host of others for the Opening Ceremony at the Winter 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah....

Sen John Kerry (D-Mass.) is offering his own alternative to the Bush administration's energy plan....

The Department of Interior's Board of Land Appeals has ordered the Bureau of Land Management to rewrite parts of a gas drilling plan in Wyoming....

The Department of Interior last Thursday released an environmental analysis that finds no significant impact should eight natural gas wells be drilled in and around a national monument created in the last month of the Clinton administration....

Thanks to a settlement brokered through the Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency that works on government whistleblower cases, a National Park Service ranger is now allowed to speak freely about his job and his concerns as a ranger in Yellowstone National Park....

The Cheyenne-Arapaho tribal complex near El Reno, Oklahoma, will play host this Thursday to a workshop for women entrepreneurs....

The Bush administration's move to send the nation's nuclear waste to Nevada might have a more difficult time clearing the GOP-controlled House if sentiments voiced by a Congressional leader are any indication....

The Northern Ute Tribe of Colorado is helping contribute funds to clean up a 130-acre pile of radioactive mine waste in Utah but how exactly to do that is still under debate....

Law enforcement in Seattle, Washington, are seeking help in identifying a woman found dead in a park restroom last week....

The Oneida Nation is hoping the state of New York will be tribally-supplied video lottery machines....

A former executive of failed energy giant Enron said on Monday that document shredding was taking place as recently as last week despite the company being under a federal investigation....

The Tigua Tribe of Texas is working to try and make expected layoffs of hundreds of employees less harsh by offering severance packages and post-employment aid....

Navajo Nation presidential candidate Joe Shirley wants to ensure the voice of tribal members on the three-state reservation is being heard....

Buried at the end of an Arizona Republic article about a new book by Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is a tidbit about former Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt....

The Montana Marrow Program is holding a blood drive today in Billings for Arianna Jordan, a 1-year-old Native child with osteopetrosis....

The Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council, in partnership with the Indian Health Service, is hosting a three-day roundtable in Billings, Montana, to discuss health care disparities on reservations....

A group of Native Americans in Colorado is calling on Eaton High School to get rid of its "Reds" logo, which features an Indian man with a large nose and a feather in his hair....

When President Bush releases his fiscal year 2003 budget on February 4, it is expected he will increase funding for terrorist-related programs while other areas will see little or no growth....

The Supreme Court today declined to review of an appeal by an American Indian man convicted of the same crime under both tribal and federal jurisdiction....

Arizona tribes will seek to fight a proposal by four race tracks to add video slot machines to their facilities, said Ivan Makil, president of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community....