Warpath: Obama’s Indian Policy Threatens All Americans, Both Tribal and Non-tribal Citizens

Warpath: Obama’s Indian Policy Threatens All Americans, Both Tribal and Non-tribal Citizens

pechangajournal: Galanda Broadman 'Watershed decision' in #tribald...

pechangajournal: Galanda Broadman 'Watershed decision' in #tribald...: Galanda Broadman  'Watershed decision' in  #tribal disenrollment case could affect epic Nooksack saga https://t.co/bwHCcDvcQY

Galanda Broadman 'Watershed decision' in #tribaldisenrollment case could affect epic Nooksack sagahttps://t.co/bwHCcDvcQY

Galanda Broadman

 'Watershed decision' in #tribaldisenrollment case could affect epic Nooksack sagahttps://t.co/bwHCcDvcQY

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Good to hear and watch some "acknowlegement" that there is a great degree of disparity between those Indian Tribes that are "wealthy" and the rest of Indian Tribes that are poor. Obviously more, there is a greater degree of difference and concerns especially in what Western Indian Tribes, Southern Tribes contend with versus what those greater, wealthy, politically-savy Indian Tribes have (which is much more than what most Indian tribes live with). Its apparent what disenrollment is especially if there is surplus money involved, i.e. casino-gaming revenues.

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House panel considers draft of Pechanga Band water rights bill The southern California tribe has been pushing for a water rights settlement for a decade. indianz.com

House panel considers draft of Pechanga Band water rights bill The southern California tribe has been pushing for a water rights settlement for a decade. indianz.com

WASHINGTON (CN) - The federal government cannot dismiss claims over its handling of tribal trust accounts, a federal judge ruled, advancing a lawsuit by the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation and nine other federally recognized tribes.

Feds Can't Shake Tribes Suing for Accounting

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     WASHINGTON (CN) - The federal government cannot dismiss claims over its handling of tribal trust accounts, a federal judge ruled, advancing a lawsuit by the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation and nine other federally recognized tribes.
     "The federal government has held funds and assets in trust for American Indian tribe beneficiaries for well over a century," U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan wrote. "Unfortunately, the federal government has failed to discharge its fiduciary duties in its role as trustee for the tribes, and those trust accounts have been mismanaged for almost as long as they have been in existence."
     The 10-page decision notes that the plaintiff tribes that the government still has not fulfilled the responsibility it owes in providing them "a complete and accurate accounting" of their trust accounts.
     Though the secretaries of the U.S. Departments of the Interior and the Treasury contended that the court lacks jurisdiction, Judge Hogan disagreed Thursday and refused to dismiss the case. Courthouse News Service