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The Week in Review
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WEEK IN REVIEW: President Bush
still on the campaign trail.
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Historical accounting still in dispute
Efforts to tell Indian beneficiaries how much
money they are owed continue to vex the
Department of Interior and the courts.
In one case, a federal judge awarded $1.7 million to
a group of Indian beneficiaries
who had to wait 30 years for their funds.
If the Bush administration follows up
on its threat to appeal, the money
could be delayed yet again.
As for the monumental Cobell case, the department
is no closer to providing most account holders
with an accounting. Facing pressure
from another judge, the department has
agreed not to mail trust fund statements
to members of an Arizona tribe.
Get the Story:
Judge enters trust fund award
(10/30)
Judge schedules trust fund hearing
(10/30)
Swimmer amasses trust fund power
(10/31)
DOI still mailing trust statements
(10/31)
DOI questioned on e-mail
destruction (10/31)
Norton to halt trust fund
mailings (11/1)
Lengthy battle set over Kennewick Man
A six-year battle over the remains of
the Kennewick Man promises to drag out
even longer now that the case has
been appealed to the Ninth Circuit.
Four Pacific Northwest tribes
and the Bush administration have each
challenged a federal judge's
ruling to hand the 9,000-year-old
remains to scientists.
At issue is a landmark federal law
that defines ownership and
control of bones and artifacts.
If, as expected, the dispute goes
all the way to the Supreme Court,
it would be the first repatriation
case to do so.
Get the Story:
Kennewick Man battle heats up
(10/29)
DOJ files notice of Kennewick
appeal (10/30)
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