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Tribe Donates Scholarship To Family Mashantucket— The Mashantucket Pequots have donated a $40,000 scholarship to the family of a female soldier who died in the war in Iraq. The scholarship is being given to the family of Lori Piestewa, a mother of two children who was the first female U.S. solider killed in the war. Piestewa, a resident of Arizona, is the first American Indian woman to die in combat while serving in the U.S. military, according to the tribe. Piestewa's 507th Army Maintenance Co. was ambushed March 23 near Nasiriyah. She was one of 11 soldiers listed as...