Change Proposed for Indian Trust Land

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government would end its long and controversial responsibility for managing American Indian trust lands under a proposed change to a bill settling a decade-old lawsuit by Indians against the government.

Senate Indian Affairs Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., and vice chairman Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., filed the bill last year to overhaul the trust system and end the lawsuit. The senators had discussed settling for $8 billion as recently as July, but they have struggled to find a plan all sides can accept.

The latest proposal, posted this week on the committee's Web site, is endorsed by the Bush administration.

Indians claim in their class-action lawsuit that the government has mismanaged more than $100 billion in oil, gas, timber and other royalties held in trust from their lands dating back to 1887.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-elect/2006/oct/26/102601744.html

[Bobbieo]

1. Eloise will never settle for any $8 billion

Doesn't she want something like $27 billion.

[laylah]

2. Actually

they won't settle for money, they want THEIR Black Hills back and have them they should. And, btw, who the hell is Eloise? or whomever you stated will never accept the obscene payment for their lands?

Jenn

[Bobbieo]

3. Playing the old 'in crowd' DU game of Guess Who???

Happy you noticed!!!!Should have used the initials EC for Eloise Cobell, the Native lady who filed the initial suit years ago.