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Search results for "Bureau of Indian Affairs" ...
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Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed
This book reveals how the U.S. government consciously looked away as miners, and then the neighbors, were exposed to uranium's dangers as it was mined on a Navajo reservation, in a slow-motion environmental catastrophe that last for decades and continues today.
Tags: uranium; radiation; mining; Navajo; Indian reservation; yellow cake; yellow dirt; EPA; Environmental Protection Agency; Indian Health Service; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Atomic Energy Commission; National Cancer Institute; environmental pollution; environmental disaster; nuclear power; atomic bomb
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Sexual Abuse of Native American Women
A look at the serious flaw in law enforcement and prosecution regarding the sexual abuse of Native American women in South Dakota and Oklahoma.
Tags: Leslie Ironroad; reservation; Indian; Bureau of Indian Affairs; sexual abuse; Native American
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Problems in Paradise
"A murder near the famed waterfalls of Havasu Canyon, Ariz., reveals the social ills of a tribe that needs help."
Tags: murder; Havasupai tribe; tribal hostility; Bureau of Indian Affairs; meth trade;
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Forgery claim blurs tribe's fate
Forged documents were used as part of a land development deal involving the ousted leader of the Amah Mutsun Indian Tribe and her San Diego-based development partner. The Bureau of Indian Affairs remained neutral on the matter even after learning that the documents were forged.
Tags: Native Americans; Indians; forgery; real estate; development; Bureau of Indian Affairs; zoning laws
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Native American Casino Impact: Ongoing Questions for Brownsville Borough
These stories look at various aspects of Native American gaming. Specifically, the reporter chose to focus on how Foxwoods casino in Connecticut affected that community. The reporter drew parallels to Brownsville, PA to show how a potential Indian casino would affect her own town. She looks at property values, small- business owners and taxes.
Tags: Bureau of Indian Affairs; United Property Owners; gambling; gaming; Native Americans; tourism; sales tax
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The Secret Choctaw Deal
The American Press reports a secret deal signed by Gov. Mike Foster with a tribe of Choctaw Indians based in central Louisiana that would allow construction of the largest land-based casino in the state.
Tags: Bureau of Indian Affairs; Choctaw; casinos; Louisiana; gaming market; casino project; Calcasieu Parish
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Reservation Crime is Out of Control
The Argus Leader reports on the increasing crime rates on several South Dakota Indian reservations, rates that "surpasses crime in some of America's major metropolitan cities." Officials believe most of the crime is due to alcohol abuse. "In 1998, Pine Ridge authorities made 9,000 arrests for public drunkenness-roughly one for every five residents and made another 780 arrests for drunken driving. . .Tribal, state and federal officials stress that two other key factors contribute to crime: Extraordinarily high unemployment rates . . . and huge numbers of people living in poverty." Reporter Lee Williams examines these issues along with how local police officers and the community are trying to stop it.
Tags: crime; Indians; reservations; Bureau of Indian Affairs; police; FBI; Bureau of Alcohol; Tobacco and Firearms; South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation; Federal Bureau of Prisons; gangs
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The Unfashionable
In the year of "Dances with Wolves," everybody wanted to be on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Nearly a decade later, it can hardly get a quorum. Reporter Peter Carlson looks at the problems still plaguing America's Indian reservations, from extreme poverty to an inefficient bureaucracy at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Tags: Indians; BIA; treaties; Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell; gaming; poverty; Black Hills
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US News & World Report examines the Bureau of Indian Affairs, finding that the bureau is rife with mismanagement, there is low morale and is impervious to criticism, Nov. 28, 1994.
Tags: Satchell Bowermaster Poverty Indian Affairs Committee 4 pages
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The reservations about some tribes
City Paper (Washington, D.C.) profiles the efforts of the Lousiana-based United Houma Nation to be recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as an authentic tribal Indian community, which would allow the Houmas to apply for federal funds to improve their schools, land and lives.
Tags: Native Americans; Indian reservations; tribes; government