The Bureau of Indian Affairs gets involved only if the theft is from federal land.
McCain was chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs that investigated Abramoff's involvement in the scandal.
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Wellstone served on the Senate's Foreign Relations, Veterans Affairs and Indian Affairs committees.
His professional career began with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Browning, Montana as a Soil Conservationist working with Indian livestock producers on the Blackfeet Reservation.
An additional 8, 500 employees of the U.S. Geological Survey and 4, 100 employees of the Bureau of Indian Affairs also face furloughs, although they have not yet begun.
Teenagers in the village must either go to one of the Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools (the nearest are in Oregon and southern California), or move in with family members in a larger city and go to public schools.
Even a hint of change causes controversy, as Chuck Strahl, the federal minister of Indian affairs, discovered this month when leaked documents suggested the minority Conservative government planned to accomplish by stealth what the previous Liberal government tried to do in 2002.
Mr Hague is meeting the newly-appointed Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid.
Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said his country made the request in a demarche, or protest note, to Pakistan's top diplomat in India, according to the Press Trust of India.
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They were both referring to a statement late on 8 December by Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, who said India's response would be decided "after careful consideration of the details" and would comprise "steps that are meaningful and effective".
"We have come across a number of cases where organised gangs - comprising property dealers and maybe a few government revenue officials or police department personnel - may be involved, " says Inspector General Gurpreet Deo, who is responsible for NRI (Non-Resident Indian) affairs in Punjab.
As a one-time member of a federal claims commission, Jim Prentice, the new minister of Indian and northern affairs, has wide experience of aboriginal affairs.
And an Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson told reporters in Delhi that there is no re-think on the resumption of cricketing ties with Pakistan.
There are 535 Indian prisoners in Pakistan jails and 273 Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails, India's Ministry of External Affairs says.
There are 535 Indian prisoners in Pakistan jails and 273 Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails, according to India's Ministry of External Affairs.
Ibrahim Tai, the president of the Indian Muslim Council, which looks after the social and religious affairs of the Muslim community in India, said that they had "defamed" his religion.
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