Way Long Time

By baregrass, on November 20th, 2011

Wow, what a long time it has been since I added anything here. I just lost interest in the darn thing (my blog) and ignored it for far too long. I guess the first thing I would like to add in here is that one of the real heroes in the Native American community has passed [...] [...]

November 20th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: baregrass | Leave a comment

Cobell vs. Salazar

By baregrass, on December 12th, 2010

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 [...] [...]

December 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: baregrass | Leave a comment

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 forward. [...]

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