Navajo reject Hale and file own tobacco suit
The Navajo Nation declined to join 34 other Indian nations in a tobacco litigation. Attorney General Levon B. Henry named Steve and Hagens Berman and Louis Denetsosie to advise, with Ater Wynn also on the legal team. The nation seeks counsel and notes states seek billions in damages.
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Navajo Nation
Levon B. Henry
Steve and Hagens Berman
Seattle
Louis Denetsosie
Window Rock
Ater Wynn
Portland
Ore
Com
Ing
Steve Berman
Henry
Hale
Dinosaur Discovery Museum delays grand opening to June 26
The grant funded Dinosaur Discovery Museum in Grants will miss its planned Friday opening and instead unveil on June 26. Dinamation International Society oversees the 16,000 square foot facility in Grants industrial park, leasing from the city for 6500 monthly to repay an 844,445 state loan. The project also received a 100,000 state grant due toSen. Joe Fidel.
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Tom Purdom
Dinosaur Discovery Museum
Rick D. Adleman
Dinamation International Society
Adleman
Dinamation, International Society
Fruita
Colo
Grants
National Guard Armory
Dinamation
New Mexico Finance Authority
Joe Fidel
D-Grants
Clif Lear
Gallup to keep school lawsuit trial scheduled
The State of New Mexico and State Superintendent of Schools Michael Davis will defend against a joint suit by Zuni Grants-Cibola and Gallup-McKinley County school systems in 11th District Court, now set to begin June 30. The districts seek Impact Aid funds used for non operational costs and equalized financing, funded by reservations.
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Gallup
New Mexico
Michael Davis
Zuni
Grants- Cibola
McKinley County
Impact Aid
Cibola
GMCS
Navajo president ends dedicated security by tribal officers
Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye will receive security only when needed as two tribal police officers removed from guarding him return to active duty. The move follows federal funding rules prohibiting use of law enforcement money for tribal leader protection, with the public safety committee proposing internal staffing and noncommissioned guards as alternatives.
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Window Rock
Navajo Nation
Kelsey Begaye
Begaye
Larry Foster
Tribe
Public Safety Committee
Edison Wauneka
Albert Hale
Atcilty
Bluehouse
Wauneka
Foster
Peter MacDonald
Hale
Peterson
Zah
Tribe pitches to BIA over Navajo per capita funding
Navajo Nation leaders urged the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Virginia to raise per person funding, criticizing BIA distribution rules as unfair to the Navajo Nation. President Kelsey Begaye and other officials testified before a meeting called by Assistant Interior Secretary Kevin Gover on Fiscal Year 2001 budget planning, noting Navajo funds as low as 55 cents per acre versus up to 13 dollars for other tribes.
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Navajo Nation
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Virginia
BIA
Kelsey Begaye
Begaye
Interior
Kevin Gover
Bureau
Taplk
Begaye keeps Navajo youth promise through new division
Malcolm Brenner reports Begaye pledges responsive leadership for Navajo Nation youth. He seeks to consolidate seven or eight youth divisions into the Division of Diné Youth under the Education Department, with a projected 38 million dollar budget largely from federal funds. The DDY aims to run by October 1 2000, to tackle boredom limited health facilities and bi cultural value conflicts among 82 742 under age 21 Navajos.
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Rock
Kelsey A. Begaye
Begaye
Diné Youth
Department of Youth and Community Service
Morris
Fie
DDY
Division of Education
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Jonathan Co Jley
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Everal Others
Discovery Museum
Bill Donovan
Dine
Victorrene Toledo
Lore Norah
History Channel
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Malcolm Brenner
Burke Dr
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