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the fuel overseas from the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming, in part to make up for flagging domestic demand. Tribes on the West Coast have raised concerns about potential environmental impacts of the shipping.
• "I cannot go in and tell another tribe that we're going to respect the Crow's sovereignty but we're not going to respect your sovereignty," Tester said. "That's a very dangerous position to put yourself in."
• Despite limits on what the senator can deliver for his home state, Crow leaders said they were pleased to have someone familiar with their concerns assume the influential post of committee chairman.
• Crow Secretary A.J. Not Afraid said tribes in Montana and elsewhere on the Great Plains have different needs than tribes in other parts of the country that are closer to population centers and able to bring in significant revenue through gambling.
• Those opportunities don't exist for the Crow, Not Afraid said.
• Crow Chairman Darrin Old Coyote said Tester understands the differences.
• "He gets it," Old Coyote said. "He understands our plight and what we're fighting for."
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FBI confirms activist was killed in SD in 1973
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The FBI says a black civil rights activist was killed during the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, and it suspects militant members of the American Indian Movement are responsible, according to recently released documents.
• The hundreds of pages of reports provided to Buffalo, N.Y., attorney Michael Kuzma and shared with The Associated Press Wednesday shed new light on the 40-year-old case of Ray Robinson, an activist and follower of Martin Luther King Jr. But the documents fall short of pinpointing where Robinson was buried and do little to fulfill his family's wish to have the remains brought home to Detroit.
• Desiree Marks, who's held out hope for 40 years that she'd see her father again, said she was crushed by the FBI's confirmation of his death.
• "I've always thought that might not be the case. He may come home. He may be alive. He may, he may, he may," Marks told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "And yesterday, when I was reading the documents it was very difficult. It made it real final."
• AIM co-founder Clyde Bellecourt said Wednesday that he was only in Wounded (Continued on page 29)
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