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News from Indian C ountry » ^ ^ ^ 2 7 . 2 0 , 0 Colo, lawmaker backs off tuition plan D EN V ER (AP) - A Colo rado lawmaker who suggested changing'a waiver for American Indian students at Fort Lewis College said she will kill the bill, but she insisted her measure would n o t have h u rt Native American students. D em o c ratic Rep. K aren Middleton o f Aurora sponsored a bill to have cut $1.8 million from the college’s budget, based on reducing reimbursement for out-öf-state tuition for Native American students. U n d er h er bill, stu d e n ts would still have been able to at tend free, but college officials argued they would have to cut staff and courses, providing less o f an education. Middleton said all colleges and universities are being af fected by budget cuts as the state tries to cope with a projected $1 billion shortfall next year, but she said the cuts to Fort Lewis College were unique and re quired a policy change. “This was never about N a tive American students,” she said. The state tuition waiver be gan in 1911 as a condition for accepting thousands o f acres of land in Hesperus in southwest Colorado. In exchange for the land, the federal governm ent and state lawmakers agreed to provide a free education for all Native American students. This year, 608 out-of-state American Indian students and 130 in-state American Indian students accepted the offer. Rico Munn, director o f the C o lo rad o D e p a rtm e n t o f Higher Education, rejected sug gestions that the bill would vio late the agreement. “It never had anything to do with Native American students,” Munn said. Ernest House Jr., a member o f the Colorado Commission on Indian Affairs, said he also believes the cuts would not have hurt Native American students. He also said it would not vio late the agreement between N a tive Americans and the state government. Remains reported found at Oxford site OXFORD, Ala. (AP) - The remains of an American Indian reportedly have been found and reburied at an Oxford construc tion site where a professor re cently discovered that an ancient Indian m ound has been de stroyed. State archaeologist Stacye H athorn said that University of Alabama archaeologists con tacted her around Jan. 8 with w ord th at the rem ains were found at a site where Oxford is building a sports complex, “UA called, said they found a body, said it was Native Ameri can, said it was reburied and the site is being avoided,” H athorn said. U niversity archaeologists have been monitoring the site, where construction began last year. Hathorn, who works for the Alabama Historical Com mission, said the call was the only one she has received from the monitors. Jacksonville State University professor o f archaeology and anthropology H arry Holstein said the land in the vicinity of the sports complex construction contains remnants o f an Ameri can Indian village and a temple mound that once was 30 feet tall. T he 3-foot base o f the mound was intact when he vis ited the site last summer, but had been flattened when he returned this week. Cash and Release Voted # 1 paw n shop in Madras! Jefferson County’s only used gun dealer At Cash and Release, we are always here to assist yew with youF short-term ioan. Alaska village up first in U.S. census NOORVIK, Alaska (AP) - T h e U.S. C ensus B ureau is launching its 2010 count o f the nation’s residents in a remote Alaska village. 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