Indians oppose Gorton for Cabinet
By Chet Barfield
STAFF WRITER

American Indians in California and nationwide are sending a flurry of calls and e-mails to Congress, alarmed over reports that their staunch adversary, outgoing Sen. Slade Gorton, might be a contender for Interior secretary.
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"In light of serious questions about the credibility of the federal recognition process forNative American tribes, we are writing to request that the incoming Bush-Cheney Administrationinitiate a full-scale reform of the Bureau of Indian Affairs," wrote Representatives Frank Wolf (R-Virginia) and Christopher Shays (R-Conn) to Vice President-elect Dick Cheney.

Wolf and Shays held a press conference yesterday, detailing their latest foray into Indian affairs. Although neither has been seen taking an active role in Indian issues during their years in Congress, Wolf and Shays in recent months have begun calling for various investigations into Indian policy.
{not partisan..} Still, Wolf and Shays appear only to have fellow Republican lawmakers on their side. In September,they were joined by other GOP members of the House in calling for a full-scale investigation of the federal recognition process by the General Accounting Office (GAO).
{empowerment zones..}Pres Bill Clinton touted the idea during his visit to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1999, one of the nation's legislatively designated empowerment zones. With the passingof the budget last week, the White House lauded the "New Markets Initiative" as the success of bipartisan cooperation.

Latest Wolf/Shays Correspondence:
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HOG-FARM PLANS RAISE STINK ON RESERVATION
By Steve Miller, 
West River Editor

Bell Farms plans to build another huge hog farm in western Mellette County, and opponents are crying foul.
The new hog farm would be built about six miles north of Cedar Butte. It would join the Grassy Knoll hog farm built in 1999 seven miles west of White River. Cedar Butte is about seven miles west of the Grassy Knoll farm...
...The tribe ships water it pumps from the Oglala Aquifer to the Grassy Knoll farm.
Once the Mni Wiconi water project is extended to Rosebud, sometime in 2002, it will bring Missouri River water to both hog farms, Huq said. Under the agreement, the tribe is not charging Bell Farms for the water. 
Opponents of the present hog farm said they had not previously heard of the plans for the second farm and they're not happy about it. 
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