21.   President Vicente Fox supports the Indian rights laws and has been courting the rebels since he took office last December.

22.   Rather than keeping their focus on Indian rights, the rebels took up other, oddly marginal causes.

23.   Samuel Ruiz, who survived the attack, is a well-known defender of Indian rights in Chiapas.

24.   The delay has worried advocates of Indian rights, who have tried to mobilize support in Washington for the Macuxi cause.

25.   The increasingly independent Mexican Congress no longer answers to the whims of the president, and have stalled initiatives on tax reform and Indian rights.

26.   The Indian rights bill would also establish a legal framework for preserving Indian customs and systems of government.

27.   The long-time Indian fishing rights activist was afforded an equally moving answer on a later panel by Weyerhaeuser Chairman Jack Creighton.

28.   The renewed attention from the government to the Indian rights issue has created feverish optimism among Indian communities.

29.   Then they brought a complaint before the Organization of American States accusing Nicaragua of violating fundamental Indian rights.

30.   The Zapatista rebels start marching to Mexico City to demand Indian rights next week.