Trust Responsibility & ReformNative Voices
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OP/ED: Payment to American Indians inadequate` (5/13/2013)
(Tennessee) -- At the most recent Native American conference of the Secretarial Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform, held in April in Nashville, among...
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Cobell
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BIA aims to start Cobell land consolidation purchases this year (4/24/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Bureau of Indian Affairs hopes to start the land consolidation portion of the $3.4 billion, Cobell trust fund settlement by the end of the year...
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Kevin Washburn to host conference call on Cobell scholarships (4/19/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- Assistant Secretary Kevin Washburn, the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, is holding a conference call on Monday to discuss the scholarship fund...
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Elouise Cobell’s legacy: self-empowerment (4/17/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- Keith Harper is one of the lead attorneys on the landmark Indian trust funds lawsuit brought by Blackfeet leader Elouise Cobell, which led to a 3.4...
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New problems emerge on Wind River Reservation after Cobell settlement (4/5/2013)
(Wyoming) -- Mary Alice Addison is raising her five grandchildren. Her daughter died too young. Money is tight. Addison and her grandchildren were each owed a $1,000...
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AICF to administer Cobell Settlement scholarships (4/2/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced on March 12 that the American Indian College Fund would administer a student scholarship fund...
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Cobell Scholarship money on its way (3/21/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced last week that American Indian College fund in partnership with the American Indian Graduate Center...
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AIGC to administer $12M in Cobell Settlement money (3/13/2013)
(Colorado) -- The American Indian Graduate Center in Albuquerque has been chosen to administer $12 million in education money from the $3.4 billion Cobell Settlement...
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BLOG: Are you demanding a $348.26 check? (3/3/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Rosebud Sioux Tribe, and several other tribes, recently received money from a tribal trust accounting and management lawsuit.
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Confusion may slow settlement payments to Minnesota tribal members (3/1/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Today is the deadline for American Indians and their descendants to take part in a $3.4 billion settlement with the federal government over the...
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Application deadline today for Cobell settlement (3/1/2013)
(Montana) -- Today is the deadline for American Indians to apply for their share of the second installment of the Cobell settlement with the federal government, a $3.4...
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Time Is Running Out to Contact the Feds (2/28/2013)
(North Dakota) -- Right now, the feds are required to respond to any written comments submitted to them on the copy.9 billion Cobell settlement plan to buy your...
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Cobell Deadline March 1 for Trust Administration Class Payments (2/27/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- The second Cobell settlement deadline is approaching on March 1. Indian class members must have submitted their applications for the second payments...
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Millions paid, millions still at stake as deadline looms for tribal class-action settlement (2/25/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- About $42.8 million has been paid out to Native Americans in Arizona since December, and another $109 million could be distributed starting next...
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Millions at stake as deadline looms for tribal class-action settlement (2/22/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- About $42.8 million has been paid out to Native Americans in Arizona since December, and another $109 million could be distributed starting next...
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BAKER: The Cobell Settlement and Cherokee Nation (1/31/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- As you may know, the federal government is in the process of finalizing the $3.4 billion Cobell Settlement. This lawsuit revolves around years of...
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Cobell settlement brings about $4 million locally so far (1/26/2013)
(Wyoming) -- In December, the U.S. District Court approved the distribution of $1.5 billion in Indian Trust Settlement funds into Individual Indian Money accounts,...
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More Alaskans to receive share of Cobell settlement (1/20/2013)
(Alaska) -- Far more Alaskans will receive a share of a $3.4 billion federal Indian lands settlement than previously estimated, according to administrators handling...
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Some Montanans still waiting for Indian trust checks (1/20/2013)
(Montana) -- The multi-billion dollar settlement that Elouise Cobell worked toward for more than a decade was finalized several months ago, two years after it was...
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Thousands continue to wait for Cobell settlement check a month after distribution (1/16/2013)
(Montana) -- The post office in Crow Agency has foot traffic day in and day out, as tribal members search their P.O. boxes in hopes to find an important piece of mail.
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Tribal members to receive more than $67 million (1/9/2013)
(North Dakota) -- When all the payments from the Indian trust settlement are completed, members of tribes in North Dakota and members of other tribes who live in the...
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Re: “Many tribal members approve of keeping settlement money for programs” (Letters from our Readers, Dec. 26, (1/2/2013)
(Washington) -- I would like to ask both Ms. Joseph and our council who they think these people are? If there are sufficient numbers to counter the petition with over 2,...
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Scams target tribal members (12/30/2012)
(Michigan) -- Scams have arisen due to the recent authorization of Cobell v. Salazar Settlement payments. This class action lawsuit claimed the federal government...
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EDITORIAL: Let tribes manage own lands (12/28/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Just in time for Christmas -- and Christmas bills -- Native Americans began receiving payments of up to $1,000 as part of the landmark Cobell...
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HOOPA: Multi-Million Dollar Settlement (12/27/2012)
(California) -- More controversy out of the Hoopa Valley, as tribal members have petitioned to vote on whether millions of dollars of federal settlement money will be...
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Interior launches Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations to manage $1.9 billion trust land consolidation fund (12/26/2012)
(Arizona) -- The Department of the Interior announced Dec. 18 the initial framework of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations that will purchase fractional...
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ABOUREZK: Natives starting to receive federal payments (12/25/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Steve Laravie doesn’t know where his land is, but he knows he owns some. Last week, he received a $1,000 check from the federal government as a...
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Newest part of Cobell settlement could pump $430 million into South Dakota tribes (12/24/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Just as payments to Natives from the landmark Cobell settlement are being mailed out, another part of that landmark settlement could pump more than $...
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Newest part of Cobell settlement could pump $430 million into South Dakota tribes (12/23/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Just as payments to Native Americans from the landmark Cobell settlement are being mailed out, another part of that landmark settlement could pump more...
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Cobell Payments Being Sent to Wrong Addresses; Special Master Appointed (12/21/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Reports are surfacing of problems being experienced by some Cobell class members who say that the federal government does not have the correct...
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Judge appoints special master to help with Cobell settlement (12/21/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- A special master has been appointed to aid with the distribution of funds from the $3.4 billion Cobell trust fund settlement. Among other tasks,...
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Cobell checks just in time for LNI, Christmas cash (12/21/2012)
(South Dakota) -- A line of customers stretched out the door at the Kyle credit union on Thursday as Native Americans who were part of a federal land settlement waited...
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Feds Launch Land Buy-Back For Tribes (12/21/2012)
(Arizona) -- The federal government announced today how the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations will work. It will purchase fractional interests in Indian trust...
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Tribal members protest (12/21/2012)
(Washington) -- Members of the Colville Tribes gather in protest outside the tribal government headquarters Wednesday, objecting to leaders’ decision to stick to...
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OP/ED: Many tribal members approve of keeping settlement money for programs (12/21/2012)
(Washington) -- I am writing to counter Yvonne Swan’s statements in The Star newspaper and advise that many, many Colville Confederated Tribal Members were quite...
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Cobell Settlement money on the way; NCAI launches radio ad campaign to “Protect Native Money” (12/20/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- On Monday the Indian Trust Settlement Administrator began issuing checks for the Cobell settlement to an estimated 400,000 American Indians who are...
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Cobell Land Consolidation Plan to Cost $285 Million for Interior Department to Run (12/19/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Officials with the U.S. Department of the Interior have confirmed that it will cost $285 million for the agency to administer the Cobell settlement...
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Rush to cash checks collapses floor of reservation bank (12/19/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The floor of the Wells Fargo bank in Lower Brule dropped 2 feet Tuesday morning as tribal members rushed to cash trust settlement checks. No one was...
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Settlement Checks Arrive in Hoopa Mailboxes (12/19/2012)
(California) -- You could almost feel the excitement in the air on Monday, Dec. 17, as people crowded into the post office and the bank in downtown Hoopa to receive and...
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Delvin Cree: Cobell brings millions to Turtle Mountain members (12/15/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff of the Cobell v Salazar class action lawsuit would be a happy woman today, knowing beneficiaries in the case will...
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Native Sun News: Group eyes cut of Standing Rock settlement (12/13/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Certain members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in South and North Dakota are upset over the tribal government’s decision on how and who will...
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Payments authorized for $3.4B Indian lawsuit (12/12/2012)
(Montana) -- A judge has authorized the start of payments to American Indians in a $3.4 billion settlement involving the federal government's mishandling of land...
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OP/ED: Who Were the Biggest Winners of the Cobell Settlement (Besides the Lawyers)? (12/11/2012)
(USA) -- Now that we have the obstacles cleared for the federal government to start making payouts under the Cobell settlement, we can expect tribal governments to begin...
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American Indians To Receive First Round Of Payouts In $3.4 Billion Settlement (12/11/2012)
(Washington) -- The first payouts from a historic class action suit against the federal government will be sent to American Indians within the week. The settlement will...
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Feds will pay Indians for mismanaging accounts (12/10/2012)
(North Dakota) -- In the dim bleakness of the dilapidated shelter he shares with two grown sons and several small “ankle-biter” dogs on the Turtle Mountain...
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OP/ED: Who Were the Biggest Winners of the Cobell Settlement (Besides the Lawyers)? (12/10/2012)
(USA) -- Now that we have the obstacles cleared for the federal government to start making payouts under the Cobell settlement, we can expect tribal governments to begin...
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Dennis Gingold Leaves Cobell Case (12/9/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Dennis Gingold, the lead lawyer for the long-running Cobell Indian trust litigation against the U.S. Department of the Interior, has left the case,...
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OP/ED: Cobell / Too late for some (12/9/2012)
(Montana) -- Earlier this month, Dennis Gingold, lead attorney in the 16-year-long Cobell lawsuit, sent a letter to nearly 500,000 American Indians nationwide saying...
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Trust Issues
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Off-Rez Enrollees Fight For Salazar Payments (1/31/2013)
(Minnesota) -- A group of Standing Rock Sioux Tribal members known as Active Citizens for Tribal Truth (ACTT) are fighting for the equal dispersal of funds from the...
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Native Vote
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GALANDA: Don't Believe the Land-Consolidation Hype (1/29/2013)
(Washington) -- When the United States supposedly sent copy,000 checks to over 300,000 Indians in time for Christmas or the New Year, the holiday good tidings read:...
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Other News
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CRST members will receive $1600 each in Salazar payments (5/8/2013)
(South Dakota) -- On Friday, April 26 the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe received the long-awaited payment of $30 million from its settlement of a trust fund mismanagement...
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The New York Times: Politics Played a Big Role in Keepseagle (5/7/2013)
(New York) -- The most respected newspaper in the country has pointed out the sour political undercurrent in the 2011 Keepseagle settlement that awarded $760 million to...
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Shelly to feds: keep your promises (5/2/2013)
(Arizona) -- Navajo President Ben Shelly joined other tribal leaders in the nation's capital last week to engage lawmakers in conversations about federal trust...
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Indian trust reform commission meets in Tennessee on April 29 (4/14/2013)
(Tennessee) -- The National Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform will meet April 29 in Nashville, Tennessee. Among other topics, the commission will hear...
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Pawnee leaders release info on settlement disbursement (3/26/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- Recently there have been inquiries concerning the allocations of funds awarded to the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma from the Nez Perce vs. Salazar settlement.
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Tribal members withdraw petition over how to disburse federal funds (2/19/2013)
(Washington) -- A November petition signed by nearly a quarter of Yakama tribal members threatening the recall of Tribal Council members over payment of a multimillion-...
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Petition seeks to oust Yakama tribal council over settlement (2/7/2013)
(Washington) -- More than 2,700 Yakama tribal members have signed a petition calling for the ouster of the entire 14-member Tribal Council, claiming they’ve been...
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Tribal representatives make the long journey to Washington, DC (2/1/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- Negotiations continue between Ramah Chapter, the Oglala Sioux Tribe and other litigating partners with the Dept. of Justice on the settlement coming...
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Yurok Tribal Members Push for Full Payout of Settlement Funds (1/28/2013)
(California) -- James Dunlap and Frank McCovey were surrounded by a small crowd in front of Lucky Bear Casino in Hoopa on Wednesday, Jan. 16, as they gathered signatures...
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Casino, distribution of funds proposal by Yurok Tribe for $27.5 million SPOA settlement (1/15/2013)
(California) -- After careful consideration, the Yurok Tribal Council voted to put forth a referendum that seeks to allocate funds, recently won in $27.5 million...
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Yurok tribal members to share $27.5 million settlement (1/15/2013)
(California) -- The Yurok Tribe announced Tuesday morning that it will receive $27.5 million from the federal government as part of a class-action suit involving 74...
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Settlement: Hoopa Tribal Members Heard Loud and Clear at the Polls (1/11/2013)
(California) -- In a community where the average annual income is $13,000 a year, getting a $10,000 check in the mail can feel like winning the lottery. On Monday,...
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LETTER: Tribal record doesn’t earn confidence (1/6/2013)
(Washington) -- Houseboats at Keller Ferry and abandoned mills near Omak serve as grim reminders of Colville tribal council’s record of inept spending and...
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House resolution allows members of Quapaw Tribe to pursue claims (12/31/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- A U.S. House of Representatives resolution, sponsored by two Oklahoma members of Congress, may allow members of the Quapaw Tribe to resolve claims...
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Hoopa Valley Tribe faces $17 million choice; Jan. 3 vote to decide how to split remainder of federal settlement (12/27/2012)
(California) -- Christmas came early this year for Hoopa Valley Tribe members in the form of payouts from a federal settlement -- and not long after New Year's, the...
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Settlement will stand, tribe rules (12/11/2012)
(Washington) -- The Colville Tribe’s governing council says it will stick to its plan to spend half of a $193 million settlement on tribal programs, and will not...
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Mescalero Apache will send members lawsuit checks (12/7/2012)
(New Mexico) -- Members of the Mescalero Apache tribe are scheduled to receive checks of $1,500 each as part of a $32.8 million windfall received through a federal...
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Energy Watch: New Rulemaking & Class-Action Settlement Approved on Tribal Lands (12/3/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- President Barack Obama, this week (December 5), will host his fourth White House Tribal Nations Conference at the Department of the Interior (...
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$1,500 Going To Tribe Members (12/1/2012)
(New Mexico) -- Members of the Mescalero Apache tribe are scheduled to receive checks for $1,500 each next week after the Tribal Council decided to divide up a portion...
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Tribal Lawsuit Disbursements to Begin Next Month (11/28/2012)
(Montana) -- Hundreds of thousands of American Indians should start receiving payouts from a $3.5 billion federal settlement by year’s end.
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