Friday, April 18, 2003

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Is it Friday already? That means it's time for the weekly list of the movers and shakers in Indian Country and beyond....

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It wasn't the first change of its kind and it definitely won't be the last....

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe voted 15-4 last month to ask the Bureau of Indian Affairs to shut down two hog farms that tribal officials and tribal members oppose....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending voluntary testing for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS....

The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida donated $325,818 to state political campaigns, according to an analysis by The Miami Herald....

The Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians of California has reached a tentative water rights settlement....

The Navajo Nation is involved in a proposal for a new coal-fired power plant....

The Navajo Nation Intergovernmental Relations Committee voted 4-3 on Thursday to approve a water agreement affecting the San Juan River, The Farmington Daily Times reports....

The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians of California won't buy a culturally significant site, citing criticism by a local official and other potential problems....

The Tulalip Tribes of Washington built a city....

The National Indian Gaming Association is spending $2 million on a study to document the benefits of Indian gaming....

Most of the footage from "The World of American Indian Dance," which will air on NBC on Saturday, comes from last summer's Crow Fair....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is consolidating three locations in Wisconsin to a brand new office....

A federal appeals court on Thursday questioned the Bush administration's attempt to stop a lawsuit seeking information about Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force....

The Chickasaw Nation Legislature voted 9-4 on Thursday to approve a $67 million cultural center....

Two Alaska Native villages, Pilot Station and Atqasuk, have restored bans on the sale and importation of alcohol after going wet for a few months....

The case of Larry Wegner, an Aboriginal man who frozen to death on the outskirts of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, was given new life this week by CBC News, which reported previously undisclosed information....

Urine was found on the clothes of an Indian man who was allegedly urinated on by police officers, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports....

From the ASU Web Devil 'Boos and Bravos' column: "Bravo to Gov....

"The battle over whether to rename Squaw Peak turned into an ugly, drawn-out, political game....

"Lori Piestewa was acted upon....

"They did the right thing....

The Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historic Names voted 5-1 on Thursday to change Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak in honor of Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq....

From Benson's View, April 18, 2003....

Employees of the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa will receive their paychecks despite an ongoing leadership dispute that includes charges that the elected chairman sought kickbacks from a tribal lobbyist....
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