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The Week in Review
ending August 17
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Battle over hemp farm continues.
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Little resolved in trust fund mess
Tribal leaders and Department of Interior officials
remain at odds over the future of Indian trust
as they continue to try and solve the historic debacle.
The lack of an historical accounting of Indian funds continues
to be the main source of the dispute.
Lawsuits affecting billions of dollars for tribes and thousands of
American Indians seek an accurate review of decades of
oil, gas, timber and other activities.
Just how far the government has to go to provide such
services is the subject of another dispute.
The Supreme Court will hear two trust law cases
this year and at least one former Interior official
warns that the result won't be very pretty.
Get the Story:
Reports come back to haunt tribes
(8/12)
Cartoon: Gale Norton gets a doobie
(8/13)
'I don't know what Gale Norton
does all day' (8/14)
Cobell to meet with Okla. account
holders (8/15)
Trust fund plaintiffs get ruling
(8/16)
Cobell challenges Indian trust
'racism' (8/16)
Gover: The Indian (dis)Trust Fund
(8/16)
Tribes take sovereignty on the road
Speaking of the Supreme Court, tribal leaders and their
advocates are getting ready to run across America
to draw attention to recent rulings affecting
tribal sovereignty.
The appropriately named Sovereignty Run will start September
11 in Washington and continue through 12 states before
arriving in Washington, D.C., on October 7.
The 2800-mile journey is part of a broad effort
to counteract what tribes feel is a diminishment of
their authority over their own lands.
One new decision affirms tribal jurisdiction, one of
the thorniest areas of Indian law. A federal appeals
court this week upheld a Montana tribe's authority over
its reservation.
Get the Story:
'It's going to change Indian
Country' (8/14)
Court upholds tribal jurisdiction
(8/15)
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