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The Week in Review
ending August 20
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The Democrats party in Los Angeles
The Democrats held their national convention this week in Los Angeles, California, and welcomed Native Americans and tribes in preparation for the upcoming election.

As President Clinton said goodbye to the nation, the party said hello to the Native American Caucus, the first of its kind for either the donkeys or the elephants. Vice-Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman was one of many who spoke before the Caucus, who met throughout the week to discuss sovereignty, economic development, and other issues facing tribes and Native people today.

The Gore-Lieberman team used the week to address some of the challenges facing the pair. Resolving conflicts in style and politics between the two, addressing the Clinton legacy, and making Gore stand out on his own were among the week's many goals and despite pundits who said the party may not have succeeded, polls out this week show Gore taking the lead over George W. Bush for the first time.

Get the Story:
Convention highlights contrasts (8/14)
Donkey delivers to Indian Country (8/14)
A little bit of Monica? (8/14)
Convention welcomes Natives (8/15)
Text of Rep. Patrick Kennedy's remarks (8/15)
Clinton says goodbye to nation (8/15)
Text of President Clinton's remarks (8/15)
Protesters hit convention, Gore (8/15)
Lieberman embraces affirmative action (8/16)
Lieberman addresses tribes (8/16)
Where are the Dems on tribes? (8/16)
The 2000 Democratic Platform on Tribes (8/16)
Seminole family always Democrats (8/17)
Native voters courted (8/18)

Federal recognition still in the news
Federal recognition is an issue that won't ever go away, thanks to our friends (or enemies, to some) in Connecticut.

Richard Blumenthal, the state's attorney general, has officially asked for a six-month extension to the public comment period for the Eastern Pequot and Paucatuck Eastern Pequot tribes. Whether or not Kevin Gover at the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Department of Interior will grant it is another question, but Gover has nothing nice to say about Blumenthal in an Indian Country Today interview.

And although not speaking directly to three towns who oppose the federal recognition of the two tribes, Gover told state lawmakers the BIA forgot to tell the towns about a missed deadline but wasn't required to do so anyway. The towns are still upset.

One of the questions raised by the state and towns was Gover's decision to recognize the tribes despite lack of evidence presented by the two. It may have slipped under the radar of many, but the Little Shell Chippewa of Montana are apparently in the same boat in terms of missing documentation.

Get the Story:
Brown, not Thomas attended Pequot meeting (8/14)
Recognition nears for Nipmuc (8/14)
Town complains about BIA (8/15)
Gover writes state lawmakers (8/15)
Decisions put Gover in the middle (8/16)
Little Shell finding a departure (8/16)
Gover gets personal (Tribal Law 8/16)
State asks for Pequot extension (8/17)
Ruling against state sought (8/18)

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