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Blasts at Crazy Horse mountain carving honor vets
• CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL, S.D. (AP) -- Two blasts at the Crazy Horse Memorial mountain carving have paid tribute to military veterans.
• Officials at the mountain carving in South Dakota's Black Hills say a small gathering of people stood in swirling snow Monday to see the Veterans Day blasts that removed 1,490 tons of granite.
• They say that while such blasts are a holiday tradition, Monday's blasts also were part of ongoing work to complete the rough shaping of the horse's muzzle area on the carving.
• Officials say the Veterans Day observance was important to the late Crazy Horse sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski (KOR'-zhack jew-uhl-KUFF'-skee), who served in the Army during World War II.
• The memorial is a mountain carving in progress that will depict Lakota warrior Crazy Horse on horseback gesturing to his ancestral homelands.
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Report addresses public safety on tribal land
FELICIA FONSECA, Associated Press
• FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- A national panel of judicial and law enforcement experts traveled the country taking comment on public safety issues on American Indian reservations, where federal statistics show the violent crime rates can be 20 times the national average.
• In Palm Springs, Calif., the Law and Order Commission heard about the patchwork of legal systems imposed on tribal members. In Alaska, commissioners talked with a leader who told them each of the dozens of Native women they had met that day had been raped. In Phoenix, they heard from Navajo police who said drunken drivers often travel onto the vast reservation.
• What the commission came up with is a 324-page report that seeks to close gaps in public safety in tribal communities. The report, "Strengthening Justice for Native America: A roadmap," will be released Tuesday, a day ahead of the White House Tribal Nations Conference. The recommendations then go to Congress and the president.
• Among the report's 40 recommendations is giving tribes more control over crime (Continued on page 24)
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