Indian Chat: Details to be worked out for chat sales
The sale of chat located on Indian lands has officially been approved by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. And with the lifting of the moratorium comes a variety of details to be worked out before the gravel-like material left over from the mining of zinc and lead can actually leave Indian land, according to Tamara Summerfield, the chairwoman of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma. Local American Indian chat owners have been waiting for this decision since a moratorium was placed on the...
Indian Chat: Piling up
It was a bad deal from the start. Mining companies got away with leaving giant waste piles scattered like blisters over the face of Indian land on the premise that the tribes could sell the rocky piles to sand and gravel companies. Now even that part of the deal is off.Meanwhile, during the past year and a half that the government has blocked Indian owners from selling the waste known as "chat," non-Indian owners keep on selling theirs, even raising the price per...
Indian Chat: Check Out TIME Asia Online
TIME, Asiaweek and CNN have joined forces to produce AsiaNow,the Internet's most comprehensive source of news, information and analysis about Asia DAILY WEB COLUMNS Asia Buzz www.timeasia.com/asiabuzz Insider views on current topics --MONDAY Quirky takes on Asian culture and society from TIME Asia deputy editor Adi Ignatius --TUESDAY and THURSDAY Tech talk with Singapore correspondent Eric Ellis --WEDNESDAY TIME East Asia correspondent Terry McCarthy pursues...
Indian Chat: new releases
* * * the power (vanessa amorosi) So, John Farnham was The Voice and now Vanessa Amorosi is The Power (apparently another name for the voice).Like most albums based around modern female vocalists, the songs selected here to show off Amoros's instrument are a mish-mash of styles. There's the thin club veneer of the massive hit Absolutely Everybody, the Farnhamesque rhythm of the other massive hit Have A Look, the anthemic disco of Pray For Love.Oh, and...
