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...from her extended family. She grew up in Rehoboth, Mass., but most of Scott’s relatives live in Kansas, not far from where the Lenape Nation of American Indians was relocated many years ago. Despite the distance, Scott has strong connections to her family and her tribal culture. She doesn’t live on a reservation, and she doesn’t live in a metropolitan area with a high Native population, but regardless, coming to Harvard has posed a new set of challenges...
...Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC). The undergraduate group brings together about a dozen of Harvard College’s 56 Native students. They represent a variety of backgrounds and interests: Elijah M. Hutchinson ’06 is from Brooklyn, NY, the grandson of Taino and Seminole tribal members; Sophia A. Taula ’04, part of both the Umatilla and Nez Perce tribes in the Pacific northwest, spent a year living on the Umatilla Reservation; and John T. Sieg ’07, part Oklahoma Cherokee, is a member of ROTC and the Green Party...
...That includes Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, where the military responded to attacks by demolishing homes and cordoning off the entire city with barbed wire. The military has avoided such blunt tactics in Fallujah, a town 35 miles west of Baghdad that has long been prone to unrest and intense tribal rivalries. Even under Saddam, locals resisted control: the town erupted in murderous riots in 1997 when Saddam arrested a prominent general from the area. Since Saddam's removal, Fallujah has been hostile to the presence of Americans. Nearly a year ago, soldiers stationed in the town opened fire...
...increased repression. The IMU was said to have suffered a huge blow when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001. In fact, an Uzbek who has followed the IMU closely says the group was just "lying low." One of its main founders, Tokhir Yuldashev, found refuge in Pakistan's tribal areas, where he was reportedly injured by Pakistani forces in the recent fighting in South Waziristan. "The key thing," says an Uzbek opposition figure, "is that the IMU has become strong enough to raise its head again." At the end of the week the Karimov regime was claiming it had "decapitated...
...intelligence on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders is being carried out in remote outposts like Camp Blessing along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where small groups of U.S. special forces live side by side with local tribesmen. By extending U.S. influence and trading favors with tribal leaders, the military hopes to shake out the kinds of tips that will finally squeeze bin Laden into the open...