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<p><strong><font size="3">From FCNL list serve:<br>
Indian Appointments to the Transition Team</font></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://action.fcnl.org/r/24142/89068/%20">President-Elect
Barack Obama has appointed six Native Americans to his transition team</a>.
One of them, Keith Harper (Cherokee), was an attorney who represented
Elouise Cobell in her lawsuit against the federal government. In her
suit, Cobell (Blackfeet) accused the government of mismanaging $176
billion in Indian trust assets. The other Native Americans on Obama's
transition team are Yvette Roubideau (Rosebud Sioux), John Echohawk
(Pawnee), Robert Anderson (Chippewa), Mary C. Smith (Cherokee), and
Mary McNeil (Winnebago). These Native appointments are auspicious for
Indian Country. If they translate into real Indian leadership, they
could lead to greater attention for issues like Indian health, tribal
justice, and land rights.<br>
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<p><b>Note of interest to Yale affiliates:</b> Mary McNeil is a
granddaughter of Henry Roe Cloud, Yale College Class of 1910. Her
husband Chris McNeil (Tlingit), MA '75, was the recipient of a 2008 <a
href="http://www.aya.yale.edu/henryroecloud/default.htm">Henry Roe
Cloud Award</a> from Yale University.<br>
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