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New York State Governor George Pataki wants the Republican nomination for the next United States presidential election. Recent events involving the issue of tax collection on sales of tobacco and gas to non-Indians by Natives living on reservations in New York State have probably assured that he will not get it.

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New York State Governor George Pataki wants the Republican nomination for the next United States presidential election. Recent events involving the issue of tax collection on sales of tobacco and gas to non-Indians by Natives living on reservations in New York State have probably assured that he will not get it.

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Its first dabble into federal politics was a costly one, but the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe in Oklahoma would do it all again.

"Yes we would, because we are now involved in the political process," said tribal business secretary Archie Hoffman.

A year ago, the 4,200 hectare community in the northwestern part of the state banded together with 38 other Oklahoma tribes to form a coalition.

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Its first dabble into federal politics was a costly one, but the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe in Oklahoma would do it all again.

"Yes we would, because we are now involved in the political process," said tribal business secretary Archie Hoffman.

A year ago, the 4,200 hectare community in the northwestern part of the state banded together with 38 other Oklahoma tribes to form a coalition.

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Its first dabble into federal politics was a costly one, but the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe in Oklahoma would do it all again.

"Yes we would, because we are now involved in the political process," said tribal business secretary Archie Hoffman.

A year ago, the 4,200 hectare community in the northwestern part of the state banded together with 38 other Oklahoma tribes to form a coalition.

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By holding a press conference in the lavish setting of the Petroleum Club in Edmonton, members of the Sawridge, Ermineskin and Tsuu T'ina First Nations opened themselves up to critical questions from a small, yet persistent gallery of media.

The press conference was held to relate the good news that a 1995 court ruling that resulted in the bands' loss of an appeal of sections of Bill C-31 had been overturned. Instead, media attention focused on the bands' opulent surroundings rather than the importance of the ruling.

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By holding a press conference in the lavish setting of the Petroleum Club in Edmonton, members of the Sawridge, Ermineskin and Tsuu T'ina First Nations opened themselves up to critical questions from a small, yet persistent gallery of media.

The press conference was held to relate the good news that a 1995 court ruling that resulted in the bands' loss of an appeal of sections of Bill C-31 had been overturned. Instead, media attention focused on the bands' opulent surroundings rather than the importance of the ruling.

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By holding a press conference in the lavish setting of the Petroleum Club in Edmonton, members of the Sawridge, Ermineskin and Tsuu T'ina First Nations opened themselves up to critical questions from a small, yet persistent gallery of media.

The press conference was held to relate the good news that a 1995 court ruling that resulted in the bands' loss of an appeal of sections of Bill C-31 had been overturned. Instead, media attention focused on the bands' opulent surroundings rather than the importance of the ruling.

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What was supposed to be a week spent studying whales became a lesson in Arctic survival for 10 high school students from Baffin Island, N.W.T. stranded on a sheet of break-away ice.

The high school biology students, along with three Elders, a science teacher, an eight-year-old child and a hunter, were trapped when the sea ice they were traveling on broke free at the tip of Baffin Island and drifted into Lancaster Sound.

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What was supposed to be a week spent studying whales became a lesson in Arctic survival for 10 high school students from Baffin Island, N.W.T. stranded on a sheet of break-away ice.

The high school biology students, along with three Elders, a science teacher, an eight-year-old child and a hunter, were trapped when the sea ice they were traveling on broke free at the tip of Baffin Island and drifted into Lancaster Sound.