Word: bia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MacDonald denies the litany of charges lodged at his mahogany door. He claims that the testimony in Washington is unsubstantiated and unfair and that he is the victim of an attempt to divert attention from mismanagement in the BIA...
Real Bird said that while under the management of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the Crow could not substantially promote their economy because of the bureaucracy involved in running the Montana reservation...
...this the Bureau of Indian Affairs has been steadily contracting out to the tribes more and more of its police, job-training, education and social programs every year. In 1983, BIA handed over control of $235 million of these projects to the tribes, up from $50 million in 1976. Congress last year appropriated $5 million in "seed money" to attract light industry and business to the reservations...
...their bingo gaming. The usual fee is 45% of profits. There are some extravagantly bad deals: some Morongos, for instance, were given microwave ovens and video games, but get only 5% of any profits over $500,000. A bill introduced in Congress by Arizona Democrat Morris Udall would require BIA scrutiny of all Indian bingo-management deals...
...without significant input from the Laguna people themselves. Although the BIA must by law act in the best interest of the tribes whose land it holds in trust, the Bureau actually exposed the Lagunas to a host of health dangers...