Navajo Stock Removal Aid Offers Up To 80 Percent
The BIA tells the Navajo Tribe a drought relief plan could fund up to 80 percent of deferring stock from rangelands for one to three years. Eligible lands must be fenced. farmers with unfenced ranges may join through group agreements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Kammer Farmington
Bureau of Indian Affairs
BIA
Peter MacDonald
Donald Dodge
Dodge
Farmington
Navajo Agricultural Products Industries
NAPI
Tinue
Navajo population study casts doubt on BIA counts
A census study of three Navajo chapters Red Rock Lukachukai and Tuba City shows 5 261 residents versus 11 086 on BIA tapes. Officials caution results cannot define overall reservation numbers though they aim to improve future estimates.
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Laurie Burnett
Window Rock
Ariz
Dine Bureau
Navajo Area Bureau of Indian Affairs
BIA
Mel Wise
Red Rock
N.M
Lukachukai
Tuba City
U.S. Bureau of Census
Wise
U. S
Census Bureau
U.S
Public Health Service
Navajo Tribe Gets Additional 29.8 Million for Training Programs
Navajo Tribal Chairman Peter MacDonald announced that the Department of Labor has added 29.8 million dollars to a training and employment fund for Navajos. The funds lift total DOL support since 1976 to about 50 million, aiding over 14 000 people and creating jobs in CETA and BIA maintenance and charger level projects. Contact Leonard Arviso at the tribal Office of Labor for details.
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Bill Donovan
Window Rock
Ariz
Department of Labor
Peter MacDonald
Dept. of Labor
MacDonald
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Tribe
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
CETA
Leonard Arviso
Office of Labor
Opposition grows to Indian tribal sovereignty at NCAI meeting
At the National Congress of American Indians mid year gathering in Albuquerque, delegates debated the rise of the Interstate Congress for Equal Rights and Responsibilities ICERR, a group opposing tribal sovereignty. ICERR seeks to apply state laws on reservations and tax Indians, provoking fears of terminating treaties and shrinking tribal self rule. Delfin Loreto and Joe DeLaCruz urged unified national action to protect sovereign rights and alert the world through the World Council of Indigenous Peoples.
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Albuquerque
Cine Bureau
The
National Congress of American Indians
NCAI
Interstate Congress For Equal Rights and Responsibilities
ICERR
Delfin Loreto
New Mexico
Joe DeLaCruz
DeLa Cruz
World Council of Indigenous People
United Nations
Groundbreaking for 52 Freedom Homes in Nizhoni Subdivision
Freedom Homes scheduled a 10 a.m. groundbreaking for 52 houses in the Nizhoni Subdivision. Paul Horton says construction will begin this fall in phase one, marking the firms’ second ceremony in Gallup over two days. A Santa Fe health planner arrived to draft a mental health plan for McKinley and San Juan Counties. Dave Berman, tied to Steve France Inc., will oversee the summer project. A rape crisis workshop trained Gallup volunteers at the Gallup Public Library Community Room Wednesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallup
Nizhoni
Freedom Homes
Paul Horton
Santa Fé
McKinley
San Juan
Dave Berman
Steve France
Gallup Public Library
Drought Across South and West Threatens Crops and Water
A two month drought grips the South and West with high fire risk and water restrictions. Georgia corn losses reach 94 million while soybeans from last year total about 144 million. Farmers face herd reductions and early sales as pasture and cotton suffer nationwide.
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Walter Stephens
Moultrie
South Georgia
Georgia
Atlanta
Wayne County
Bobby Deal
Tommy Irvin
Houston County
Ala
Alabama
Virginia
Tennessee
Mississippi
Cattlemen’s Association
Florida
National Weather Service
South Carolina
North Carolina
Louisiana
California
Indians Considered For Cabinet Post
At the NCAI midyear conference in Albuquerque two Indians were named as finalists for the new Assistant Secretary of Interior for Indian Affairs post. The candidates are Mel Tonasket and Forrest Gerard, former Senate Interior Committee staffer and founder of Gerard and Associates. They were chosen from a list of 87 tribal recommendations and a prior DHHS panel.
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Albuquerque
Indian Affairs
National Congress of ‘American, Indians
NCAI
Carter
Mel Tonasket
Forrest Gerard
Pito
Senate “Interior
Fossils Defended in New Mexico Mining Debates
BLM officials warn that hundreds of mammal and dinosaur fossil deposits in northwestern New Mexico could be destroyed by coal strip mining. Geologist J. Keith Rigby Jr. says a test case on salvaging remains under mining leases will arise here as regional environmental studies proceed.
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
Bureau of Land Management
BLM
J. Keith Rigby, Jr
Rigby
San Juan Basin
McKinley County
LIA
Hopi Chief Angered by Exclusion from BIA Meeting
Hopi Tribal Chairman Abbott Sekaquaptewa condemned being told to leave a Flagstaff meeting with BIA acting commissioner Raymond Butler and Joint Use Office officials. He said the session, about the former Joint Use Area, excluded Hopi leadership and implied reprisals against Hopi rights to land and self governance.
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BIA
JUA
Oraibi
Ariz
Dine Bureau
Abbott Sekaquaptewa
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Flagstaff
Herd
Sekaquaptewa
Raymond Butler
Joint Use
Butler
Arizona
Bill Collier
Bureaa
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Tures
Red Rock State Park
Bill Benjamin
Benjamin
Navajo-Hopi Relocation Commission
Indian Congress
Terry K. Landolt
South Shores
West
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Senate Interior Committee
Gerard and Associates, Inc
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