Trust Responsibility & ReformTrust Issues
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Mendocino tribe settles federal lawsuit for $8.5 million (4/26/2012)
(California) -- A tribe in remote northeastern Mendocino County will receive $8.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging federal mismanagement of tribal resources dating...
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Norman Deschampe: Trust fund bill fair to Chippewa bands (4/25/2012)
(Minnesota) -- Tomorrow, the House Natural Resources Committee will mark up H.R. 1272, the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Judgment Fund Distribution Act of 2011.
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Round Valley Indian Tribes receive $8.5M trust settlement (4/25/2012)
(California) -- The Round Valley Indian Tribes of California accepted $8.5 million to settle a trust mismanagement lawsuit. The tribes sought damages for the federal...
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Arthur LaRose: Trust fund bill a threat to tribal sovereignty (4/24/2012)
(Minnesota) -- This year, Congress held two hearings on legislative proposals to distribute a 1999 federal court settlement of $20 million approved for damages inflicted...
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Administration Bucks Precedent, Pays Out A Billion (4/16/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Justice Department and 41 Native American tribes recently announced a roughly $1 billion settlement. The agreement settles long-standing...
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Tule River tribe gets $7.1m in federal settlement (4/16/2012)
(California) -- The Tule River Indian Tribe will get $7.1 million after settling a lawsuit that claimed the federal government mismanaged tribal trust fund accounts.
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Leech Lake Band receives $3.5M in trust fund settlement (4/14/2012)
(Minnesota) -- The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Indians in Minnesota will receive $3.5 million through a trust fund settlement with the federal government.
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NARF cites Obama as catalyst for tribal trust settlements (4/14/2012)
(Colorado) -- President Barack Obama led the charge to settle 41 tribal trust cases, John Echohawk of the Native American Rights Fund said on Thursday.
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Ute tribes to benefit from $1B settlement (4/14/2012)
(Utah) -- Two Ute Indian tribes are among 41 tribes nationwide to reach a $1 billion settlement with the federal government in lawsuit alleging mismanagement of tribal...
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Irene Cuch: The future of the federal trust responsibility (4/14/2012)
(Utah) -- The following letter from Irene C. Cuch, the chairwoman of the Ute Tribe of Utah, was sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on April 10. The tribe has reached a...
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Federal $1 billion settlement attempts new direction with tribes (4/13/2012)
(Minnesota) -- Some Minnesota Native American tribes will benefit from a $1 billion settlement with the federal government. The agreement was announced Wednesday and...
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Government pays $1billion compensation to Indian tribes over century-old claims to money and land (4/13/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The federal government is set to pay out more than $1billion to a number of American Indian tribes to settle disputes which have been ongoing for...
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Idaho Tribes Part Of Billion Dollar Settlement But There's More Than Money (4/13/2012)
(Idaho) -- A landmark settlement announced this week between the federal government and Native American tribes is expected to have long-term effects beyond the $1...
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Millions on hold in tribal case (4/13/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- A class-action settlement that could bring $45 million to American Indians in Minnesota remains locked in a legal tug-of-war pitting four people...
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Quechan Tribe: Settlement Reached (4/13/2012)
(Arizona) -- It's been a long time in the waiting but after all this time in negotiation with the governement the fourty-one tribes involved will share the sum of...
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Soboba settlement resolves dispute with government (4/13/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians is among 41 tribes that will share in $1.2 billion worth of settlements reached with the federal government this...
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Tribes to Get $1 Billion for Mismanaged Funds (4/13/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The U.S. government agreed Tuesday to pay $1 billion to settle 41 Native American tribes' claims that it mismanaged their monetary assets and...
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U.S. Will Pay a Settlement of $1 Billion to 41 Tribes (4/13/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- In one of the largest financial settlements made to American Indian tribes, the federal government said this week that it had ended dozens of...
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N.M. Tribes Share In $1 Billion Accord (4/12/2012)
(New Mexico) -- The federal government will pay more than $1 billion to settle lawsuits brought by American Indian tribes in New Mexico and elsewhere over mismanagement...
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$1 billion settlement reached in lawsuits filed by 41 tribes against United States (4/11/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced on April 11 the settlement of lawsuits filed by 41 federally-...
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Feds agree to pay $1 billion to 41 tribes to settle tribal trust claims (4/11/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Federal officials announced a $1 billion settlement Wednesday of claims filed by 41 tribes, including five from Arizona, who said the government had...
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Obama Moves to Settle 41 Tribal Trust Cases for $1 Billion (4/11/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Obama administration announced April 11 its intent to resolve 41 long-standing disputes with Indian tribal governments over the federal...
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Secretary Salazar and Attorney General Holder Announce $1 Billion Settlement of Tribal Trust Accounting and Management Lawsuits Filed by More Than 40 Tribes (4/11/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the settlement of lawsuits filed by 41 federally-recognized...
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Tribal leaders hail $1B in trust management settlements (4/11/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Tribal leaders joined the Obama administration today in announcing a $1 billion settlement to 41 trust management lawsuits.
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Tribes, government agree to $1 billion settlement for mismanaged trust lands (4/11/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The federal government says it will pay more than $1 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by American Indian tribes over mismanagement...
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Nooksack Tribe gets share of $1 billion settlement (4/11/2012)
(Washington) -- The federal government will pay more than $1 billion to settle a series of lawsuits brought by American Indian tribes over mismanagement of tribal money...
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Ute tribes to share in $1B settlement over mismanaged trust accounts (4/11/2012)
(Utah) -- Two Ute Indian tribes are among 41 tribes nationwide to reach a $1 billion settlement with the federal government in lawsuit alleging mismanagement of tribal...
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Cobell
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Business director says settlement could help tribe’s financial future (4/23/2012)
(Colorado) -- A recent $1 billion settlement between the federal government and 41 Native American tribes could mean an opportunity for one Southwest Colorado tribe to...
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Peninsula tribe to receive $25 million as part of federal settlement (4/22/2012)
(Washington) -- The Makah tribe will receive $25 million from the federal government under the terms of a $1 billion settlement of a series of lawsuits brought by Native...
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GALANDA: Interior’s Land Consolidation Plan: Another ‘Disaster’ in the Making (4/19/2012)
(Washington) -- To quote an Indianz.com headline: “Interior’s land consolidation plan is a disaster.” The Department of the Interior’s proposal...
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Native Sun News: $3.4B Cobell settlement still in question (2/22/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- In an appeal filed by Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate member Kimberly Craven of Boulder, Colo., the Cobell trust fund settlement was questioned concerning...
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D.C. Circuit Examines $3.4B Settlement In Native American Trust Case (2/16/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Justice Department today defended in a Washington federal appeals court the historic $3.4 billion settlement to resolve claims that the...
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First Cobell Settlement Appeal Heard (2/16/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today heard the first of four appeals to the $3.4 billion...
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Diné would be priority under Cobell plan (2/10/2012)
(Arizona) -- When attorneys for Elouise Cobell visited the Checkerboard area of the Navajo Nation to apprise allottees of the latest developments in their suit against...
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DC Circuit set to hear first of challenges to Cobell settlement (2/8/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hear an objection to the Indian trust fund lawsuit next Thursday, February 16.
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Cobell Class Members question settlement, attorney conduct (2/6/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Class Counsel for the Cobell v. Salazar class action lawsuit sent out a letter Jan. 20 to Class Members throughout Indian Country explaining the...
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DOI releases land consolidation plan for Cobell settlement (2/3/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Interior Department today released a draft plan to implement the land consolidation portion of the Indian trust fund settlement. The settlement...
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A Public Letter From the Cobell Lawyers Prompts Ethics and Harassment Concerns (1/30/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Lawyers for the many plaintiffs in the class-action suit attached to the Cobell settlement took that case’s seemingly endless saga to a new...
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Objectors of Native American settlement revealed (1/30/2012)
(Montana) -- Carol Good Bear started getting the calls about a week ago, after the attorneys who had negotiated a $3.4 billion settlement over misspent Native American...
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Woman challenges historic Native class-action settlement (1/21/2012)
(Nebraska) -- Mary Lee Johns isn't one to back down from a fight. So when she learned Friday that attorneys for plaintiffs in the largest government class-action...
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Craven Appeal of Cobell Moves Forward (1/7/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Kimberly Craven – the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate woman sometimes incorrectly styled as the sole objector to the Cobell settlement – is...
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Indian Records Repository in Kansas Preserves Indian Records (12/22/2011)
(Kansas) -- At the height of the Cobell lawsuit over the federal government’s mismanagement of the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust, the U.S. Department of...
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Native Sun News: Oglala Sioux man fights Cobell settlement (11/2/2011)
(South Dakota) -- One Lakota man’s story and willingness to protest alone, speaks for many Native people across Indian country who are left in the dark about the...
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OP/ED: Native American rights: Elouise Cobell, 'Blackfoot warrior,' R.I.P. (10/29/2011)
(Oregon) -- It is the rare human being who gets to be enshrined in the pantheon of heroes. I remember the Herblock cartoon that came out the day after Dwight Eisenhower...
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Exclusive: President Barack Obama Remembers Elouise Cobell (10/27/2011)
(Washington D.C.) -- With the passing of Elouise Cobell, a proud member of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana, we have lost a champion of Native American rights. Her...
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Cancer claims Cobell, warrior of the people (10/23/2011)
(Arizona) -- Throughout the 16 years she pursued litigation against the federal government on behalf of 500,000 holders of individual Indian trust accounts, Elouise...
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LETTER: Cobell fought hard for settlement (10/23/2011)
(Montana) -- The Cobell family, the Blackfeet Tribe and Indian Country have lost a tireless and intelligent leader whose perseverance contributed $3.4 billion in...
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Native Americans come from across U.S. to pay respects to Cobell (10/22/2011)
(Montana) -- They came from the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, from the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, from the Seminole Tribe in Florida.
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Woman behind Indian trust case remembered for grit (10/22/2011)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell was remembered on Saturday as a warrior whose compassion and grit drove her to dedicate the last 16 years of her life to holding the U.S....
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D.C. judge chides Cobell lawyers for trying to squelch appeal (10/8/2011)
(Washington D.C.) -- The $3.4 billion Indian trust land settlement known as Cobell has been one of the most hotly-litigated and longest-running class actions in history.
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Other News
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DC Circuit dismisses challenge to Western Shoshone trust bill (5/16/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit that challenges the distribution of a $185 million trust fund.
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Tribe members will receive settlement money this week (5/10/2012)
(Colorado) -- Ute Mountain Ute tribal members won’t have to wait for a federal judge’s approval to receive the first benefits from a $42.6 million settlement...
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For Ute Mountain Utes, $2,000 check to be in mail (5/6/2012)
(Colorado) -- Ute Mountain Ute tribal members won’t have to wait for a federal judge’s approval to receive the first benefits from a $42.6 million settlement...
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Keynote speaker at American Indian symposium addresses land-rights issue (4/13/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Former Broken Arrow resident Marcella Giles spoke Thursday about Indian land rights as the keynote speaker at the 40th Annual Symposium on the American...
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Utah sued again by Utah Diné for mismanaging Navajo Trust Fund (4/11/2012)
(Utah) -- The control of millions of dollars in oil and gas royalties in the Utah Navajo Trust Fund is once again generating controversy in San Juan County.
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The Ute Indian Tribe and the United States Department of Justice Settle Trust Lawsuit (4/6/2012)
(Utah) -- Today, officials from the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in Utah (the Tribe) and the United States Department of Justice, are pleased to...
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Some Utah Diné want state to return (3/29/2012)
(Utah) -- Three Utah Navajos say the state had no right to resign as trustee of the Utah Navajo Trust Fund in 2008, and are suing in U.S. District Court to force it to...
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Navajos Claim Utah Shirks Its Duty (3/23/2012)
(Utah) -- Navajos claim in Federal Court that Utah abandoned a $54 million energy income trust for tribal housing, water, electricity and college scholarships, because...
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At Last, Some Bright Spots in Indian Country (3/23/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- When Supreme Court Justice John Marshall described the relationship between Indians and the federal government in 1831 as that of "a ward to...
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Expect more announcements for tribal trust fund settlements (3/4/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, three tribes have reached significant trust fund settlements. Indian Country can expect...
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Salazar to convene Indian trust reform commission (3/2/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- As part of President Obama’s commitment to fulfilling this nation’s trust responsibilities to American Indians and Alaska Natives,...
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Utah Diné support nonprofit to oversee trust fund monies (3/1/2012)
(Utah) -- If a series of seven public hearings held in February is any indication, most Utah Navajos want the new nonprofit Utah Dineh Corp. to manage the $50 million...
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New national commission on Indian Trust to begin (2/29/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he will convene the first meeting of the five-member National Commission on Indian Trust Administration and...
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$40 million of the Utah Navajo Trust Fund, leaders try to find a solution (2/16/2012)
(Utah) -- In Salt Lake City, at the Annual American Indian Caucus Day Navajo President Ben Shelly meant with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert to find a solution on how to...
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Justice for Native Farmers / Class action settlement to benefit New Mexicans (1/17/2012)
(New Mexico) -- After a 13-year court battle, Native American farmers and ranchers who were denied federal farm loans will get long-awaited compensation. The U.S....
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Class action payout for Native farmers (1/17/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Alibi reporter Carolyn Carlson drove out to Gallup at the end of December to speak with claimants for a $760 million settlement. The payout is the...
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Wind River tribes take Dept. of Interior back to court (1/13/2012)
(Wyoming) -- On Monday, the Federal Court of Appeals reinstated a claim filed by the Wind River Tribes against the federal government which accuses the Department of...
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Shelly fights proposal for management of Utah trust (1/13/2012)
(Arizona) -- The Navajo Nation continues to oppose a bill currently in Congress that would turn over the administration of Utah trust funds to a nonprofit.
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Navajo president to hold town hall meetings, address Navajo Utah Trust Fund (1/12/2012)
(New Mexico) -- Navajo President Ben Shelly announced that he plans to hold several town hall meetings in early February to gain insight to administer the Navajo Utah...
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Federal Circuit reinstates trust claim in Wyoming tribes' case (1/11/2012)
(Wyoming) -- Two Wyoming tribes will be able to pursue another trust mismanagement claim after winning a decision from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday.
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