Congress rebuffs attacks on Indians

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Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 07-24-2002 WASHINGTON, D.C. - After heated debate, the U.S. House of Representatives on July 17 soundly defeated two measures widely considered harmful to Indian interests. One rider attached to the 2003 Interior Appropriations Bill would have limited historical accounting for the individual Indian and tribal trust accounts.

Another, proposed by Congressmen hostile to tribal gaming, would have set up a commission to study alternate ways for the federal government to solve Indian problems. Both measures were stripped from the bill by broad bipartisan margins. Late in the night of July 17, the House approved the $19.7 Interior appropriation bill, containing a record $2.9 billion for the Indian Health Service and $2.4 billion...