Baregrass.Com » Add new tag http://www.baregrass.com/wordpress Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:50:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Update # 2 on Cobell vs. Kempthorne http://www.baregrass.com/wordpress/2009/02/update-2-on-cobell-vs-kempthorne/ http://www.baregrass.com/wordpress/2009/02/update-2-on-cobell-vs-kempthorne/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:33:08 +0000 baregrass http://www.baregrass.com/wordpress/?p=175 Cobell vs. Kempthorne is now Cobell vs. Salazar since Ken Salazar, the former senator from Colorado, is now the head of the US Department of the Interior. It will be interesting to see what happens because the history of the state of Colorado’s relations with Native Americans is very bad. Basically the Native people were all killed or driven out except the Southern Utes. Salazar maintains that the Obama administration will try to settle the litigation. The proof will be in the pudding of course.

For more information go to the Cobell vs. Salazar home page.

In a previous post I stated that the plaintiffs were offered a $7 billion settlement by the federal government. That statement was based on information from media sources and since has proven to be false. The government never made a settlement offer at any price according to the plaintiffs and they should know.

When will the day come when the Native People in this country get a fair deal?

Here is the plaintiff’s web site:  http://www.indiantrust.com/index.cfm

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