Questions For Eloise Cobell

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 [...]

February 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: baregrass | Leave a comment

Cobell vs. Salazar

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: , , , | Category: baregrass | Leave a comment

Cobell vs. Salazar

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: , , , | Category: baregrass | Leave a comment

Another Promise To Indians on The Way To Being Broken?

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: , , , , , | Category: baregrass | One comment

Update # 2 on Cobell vs. Kempthorne

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: , , | Category: baregrass | Leave a comment

Update on Cobell vs. Kempthorne

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: , , | Category: Owner | Leave a comment

Update To Cobell vs. Kempthorne

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 [...]

August 9th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: baregrass | 2 comments

Indian Trust Money #3

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: , , | Category: baregrass | Leave a comment

Indian Trust Money #2

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: , , | Category: baregrass | One comment

Indian Trust Money

By baregrass, on April 20th, 2008

Preface
In all of the following posts about the problem of Indian Trust Monies I have gotten much information, used some direct quotes and paraphrased others from the following web site: <http://www.indiantrust.com/index.cfm>. I encourage all to visit the site. I don’t think you can read it without getting quite angry.
I have been needing to write about [...]

April 20th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: baregrass | Leave a comment