Finally there may be an end to the longstanding struggles of Native Americans to gain a little bit of justice for what they have suffered at the hands of the government. I am referring decades old Cobell lawsuit against the Department of the Interior. Congress passed the enabling legislation and President Obama signed it just [...] [...]
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 By baregrass, on December 12th, 2010  December 12th, 2010 | Tags: Cobell vs Salazar, Cobell vs. Kempthorne, Indian Trust Funds, Native Americans | Category: baregrass |
Leave a comment By baregrass, on February 22nd, 2010 In the case of Cobell vs. Salazar Ms. Cobell is taking questions from those native Americans that will be affected by the recent settlement offer from the federal government. Here is the web site and instructions: http://cobellsettlement.com/class/ask_elouise.php It is our hopes that Congress will pass the enabling legislation and the process can move forward. [...] February 22nd, 2010 | Tags: Cobell vs Salazar, Cobell vs. Kempthorne, Native Americans | Category: baregrass |
Leave a comment By baregrass, on December 9th, 2009 Finally! Looks like there might be a resolution to the lawsuit filed so many years ago by Elouise Cobell of the Blackfeet tribe against the US Department of the Interior. The lawsuit claimed that the federal government mismanaged individual Indians’ trust accounts and had been doing so for around a hundred years. For more and [...] [...] December 9th, 2009 | Tags: Cobell vs Salazar, Cobell vs. Kempthorne, Indian Trust Funds, Native Americans | Category: baregrass |
Leave a comment By baregrass, on May 11th, 2009 The three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia held an hour long hearing today in the appeal of trial judge Robinson’s ruling in the case of the over 100 year’s of mismanagement of the Indian Trust Fund. Even after Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s statements that he would [...] [...] May 11th, 2009 | Tags: Cobell vs Salazar, Cobell vs. Kempthorne, Indian Trust Funds, Native Americans | Category: baregrass |
Leave a comment By baregrass, on April 3rd, 2009 “Honor the Trust Responsibility: Barack Obama recognizes that honoring the government-to-government relationship requires fulfillment of the United States’ trust responsibility to tribes and individual Indians. More specifically, Obama is committed to meaningful reform of the broken system that manages and administers the trust lands and other trust assets belonging to tribes and individual Indians. Further, [...] [...] April 3rd, 2009 | Tags: Cobell vs Salazar, Cobell vs. Kempthorne, Indian Trust Funds, Native Americans, politics, society | Category: baregrass |
One comment By baregrass, on February 17th, 2009 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 [...] [...] February 17th, 2009 | Tags: Add new tag, Cobell vs. Kempthorne, Native Americans | Category: baregrass |
Leave a comment By admin, on August 30th, 2008 The plaintiffs in the case have decided to appeal Judge Robinson’s ruling. The judge has agreed to enter a written order next week that will allow a prompt appeal of his latest rulings in the class action suit over the government’s mismanagement of the Indian Trust Funds. Go here for the latest. I wish the plaintiffs [...] [...] August 30th, 2008 | Tags: Cobell vs. Kempthorne, Indian Trust Funds, Native Americans | Category: Owner |
Leave a comment By admin, on August 9th, 2008 Well, Judge Robinson finally made a ruling and it was a shocker. He bought the government’s argument hook line and sinker! The award was a little over $455 million dollars, a bare fraction of what the defendants were asking. This paltry sum for what amounts to over 100 years of demonstrated fraud, incompetence and outright [...] [...] By admin, on June 10th, 2008 We left off in 1999. Clinton was still president and the tribes had given him lots of campaign contributions. Looks like he would have helped them out but…..well, usual story of broken faith. Things just continued in this vein. In 2001 the Court of Appeals ruled that the Department of the Interior’s malfeasance justified court [...] [...] June 10th, 2008 | Tags: Cobell vs. Kempthorne, Indian Trust Funds, Native Americans | Category: baregrass |
Leave a comment By admin, on April 27th, 2008 In 1994 Congrees passed the Indian Trust Management Reform Act of 1994. It laid the burden on the Secretary of the Interior “to account for the daily and annual balances of all funds held in trust by the United States for the benefit of an Indian tribe or an individual Indian that are deposited or [...] [...] April 27th, 2008 | Tags: Cobell vs. Kempthorne, Indian Trust Funds, Native Americans | Category: baregrass |
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