Ariz. Tribal College Balks at Funding Halt

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PHOENIX - Five years ago, Arizona began sending $1.75 million a year to the Navajo Nation's college as part of a 10-year deal. Now, Republican lawmakers want to eliminate the transfer to Dine College to help ease the state's budget woes, a provision that American Indians say is just more unfair treatment of them by the government.

"I put that in the same category as the whole string of promises broken throughout the history of Native American people," said state Sen. Albert Hale, a former Navajo Nation president.