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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FYI: News Items of Interest, 02/14/2004 (2 items) Compiled by Rose Soza War Soldier Additional information about sources available at the end of the message. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [1] "Tribes Protest $200 million in Bush Budget Cuts," The Associated Press State & Local Wire, February 14, 2004, Copyright 2004 Associated Press & Local Wire. ["Albuquerque, N.M.: Indian tribes are taking big hits in President Bush's proposed budget, with schools, clinics, courts and jails bearing the $200 million brunt. The Bureau of Indian Affairs budget alone is decreased by about $100 million, including cuts in the school construction and repair budget of about $65 million. In the two weeks since it has been released, the Bush budget has been the topic of concern at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and within tribal governments, which rely on federal funding of Indian programs to meet the needs of growing reservation populations.. . . . The Bush budget for next year would increase defense spending by 7 percent and boost homeland security spending 10 percent while holding the rest of discretionary spending growth to one-half of 1 percent. Some of the cuts in Indian programs under Bush's proposed budget: -BIA school construction and repair would decrease from $294.9 million to $229.1 million, a $65.8 million cut. -BIA construction would decrease from $351.1 million to $283.1 million, a $68 million cut. -Indian Health Service health facilities funding would decrease from $94 million to $42 million, a $52 million cut. -Indian Land and Water Claims Settlement funding would decrease from $60.6 million to $34.8 million, a $25.8 million cut. -Native American Housing and Self-Determination Act block grants would decrease from $654.1 million to $647 million, a $7.1 million cut. -Tribal COPS community policing program funding would decrease from $25 million to $20 million, a $5 million cut. -The Tribal Courts program would decrease from $8 million to $5.9 million, a $2.1 million cut. -Tribal prison construction would decrease from $2 million to zero. -The Indian Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Program would decrease from $5 million to $4.2 million, an $800,000 cut."] [2] "CBS Sorry for OutKast Performance: Feathers, War Paint in Grammy Finale Offends American Indians," Associated Press & Local Wire , February 14, 2004, Copyright 2004 CanWest Interactive, a division of CanWest Global Communications Corp. All Rights Reserved. ["Albuquerque, N.M.: CBS apologized Friday to American Indians angered by OutKast's Grammy Awards performance, which featured feathers and war paint. 'We are very sorry if anyone was offended,' said Nancy Carr, a CBS spokeswoman in Los Angeles. As the final act of Sunday's Grammy telecast, OutKast's Andre (3000) Benjamin and several dancers swirled wildly around a green teepee as he sang Hey Ya. Costumes included war paint, feathers and fringe. . . . The San Francisco-based Native American Cultural Center called for a boycott of CBS; OutKast; Arista, their record company; and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which sponsors the Grammys. The centre also has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission and said it posted documents online explaining 'why this broadcast was racist and why the companies involved need to take responsibility for their commercialization of Native American culture.' George Toya of the Jemez Pueblo powwow group Black Eagle, who was in the audience at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, said he was initially happy when he heard the chant that opened OutKast's performance. He thought he was about to see an American Indian group perform. 'It was a Navajo song that I recognized, and I got a little excited, said Toya, who was at the ceremony with other members of Black Eagle to pick up a Grammy for best Native American music album for Flying Free. But the drumming was actually the intro to Hey Ya. American Indians across the country were angered by what they said was a performance disrespectful to their culture and a perpetuation of tomahawk-and-teepee stereotypes."] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FYI: News Items of Interest is a daily resource compiled by the H-AMINDIAN staff. It features a sampling of news stories concerning Native issues in Canada, the United States and Mexico. In order to comply with Academic Fair Use and copyright laws, only a summary of the news articles is offered here. We will not reproduce articles in whole. Only stories from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) offer a direct link to the article in question (the link follows immediately after the summary). However, online links to all of our sources are available at our website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/h-amindian/list.html. Your college, university, or public library may provide access to online data bases and services (such as Lexis-Nexis, ProQuest, or Dialog) with full-text versions of these and other stories. H-AMINDIAN is part of the H-NET family and is housed in theDepartment of History, Arizona State University.
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