Interior grants disbursed to conservation projects
WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Department Dirk Kempthorne announced March 21 that more than $6.2 million in grants will go to 38 American Indian projects in 18 states to fund a wide range of conservation projects nationwide.

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New compacts clouding tribal payout picture
 COPLEY NEWS SERVICE   March 3, 2008

SACRAMENTO – Some powerful California Indian tribes dismissed it as what one leader referred to as a “blatant lie” – the warning that their new gambling agreements could jeopardize revenue-sharing payments to the state's poorest tribes.

But a jumble of conflicting provisions in tribal-state compacts, as well as state law, suggest the claim raised during the recent ballot fight over the deals is at least an open question. 

                                                              

Hoopa-Yurok Settlement Amendment Act of 2004
To amend the Hoopa -Yurok Settlement Act to provide for the acquisition of land for the Yurok Reservation and an increase in economic development beneficial to the Hoopa Valley Tribe and the Yurok Tribe, and for other purposes.

S.2878
Title: A bill to amend the Hoopa-Yurok Settlement Act to provide for the acquisition of land for the Yurok Reservation and an increase in economic development beneficial to the Hoopa Valley Tribe and the Yurok Tribe, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [CO] (introduced 9/30/2004)      Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 9/30/2004 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.