Tzonteyotl
1st December 2010, 20:59
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/home/content/-iCobelli-settlement-clears-House-on-to-president-111121424.html
For over a century, the federal government mismanaged, lost, and even stole billions of dollars it held in trust for individual American Indians, said Sen. Byron Dorgan D-N.D., chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Final congressional approval of the Cobell v. Salazar settlement is long overdue and historic. But it is much more than that. It is a victory for justice.
It only took 14 years. Too bad it's only $3.4 billion. That's a joke considering the huge losses tribes took as a fault of the BIA.
For over a century, the federal government mismanaged, lost, and even stole billions of dollars it held in trust for individual American Indians, said Sen. Byron Dorgan D-N.D., chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Final congressional approval of the Cobell v. Salazar settlement is long overdue and historic. But it is much more than that. It is a victory for justice.
It only took 14 years. Too bad it's only $3.4 billion. That's a joke considering the huge losses tribes took as a fault of the BIA.