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Page 12: Across Native America; Northeast; Tribe keeps authority to regulate water on reservation; Indians file law suite over state-seized cigarettes; Southeast; Choctaws want state tax covered through services; East; Immunity from lawsiuits up before state supreme court; Commission passes proposal to eliminate Columbus day; BIA asks federal judge to block tribe's recognition bid; Blankenship elected chair for Eastern Cherokees; Judge orders New York to ante up $211 million more; Senate approves Rey as agriculture undersecretary; Southwest; First IAIA bachelor's degree grad to work at Tamalstslikt.