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The Week in Review
ending July 27
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Delay in Indian Country justice questioned
Congress got its first shot at the Bush
administration's long-awaited
historical accounting plan this week.
Leaders of the Senate Indian Affairs
Committee weren't kind to the $2.4
billion, 10-year proposal.
They urged the Department of Interior
to settle the debacle in order
to prevent further damage
to more than 500,000 American Indians.
Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff
in a class action against the federal
government, also urged resolution of
the case.
More than $100 billion is unaccounted,
she said this week.
Get the Story:
Contract woes typical of trust fund
(7/22)
Editorial: Making the victims pay
(7/22)
Historical accounting focus of
hearing (7/22)
'We need Bush at the table'
(7/24)
Trust law favors Indian claims
(7/24)
Senate debates accounting plan
(7/26)
Slonaker objects to House bill
(7/26)
Tribes press forward with trust claims
Their cases have yet to go to trial but several
tribes citing mismanagement of their
trust assets throughout the country scored an early
victory.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth agreed
to hear several tribal claims
over the objections of the Bush administration.
Billions of dollars are at stake
as a new front is opened on a war
dating back more than one hundred years.
Get the Story:
Norton handed worst nightmare
(7/25)
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of the top stories.
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