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