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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2002

"More than 300,000 Native Americans should be receiving about $500 million a year from the Department of the Interior in royalties collected on oil, gas, coal, timber and grazing operations on 11 million acres of Western lands held in trust for the Indians since 1887. Now here's a surprise: They are getting only a fraction of that. A lot isn't getting collected in the first place. Some is being held in a trust fund. And much of it has flowed into the U.S. Treasury to be spent on other things. . ."

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Editorial: 11 Million Acres of Shame (The Los Angeles Times 9/22)
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Relevant Links:
Indian Trust: Cobell v. Norton - http://www.indiantrust.com
Cobell v. Norton, Department of Justice - http://www.usdoj.gov/civil/cases/cobell/index.htm
Indian Trust, Department of Interior - http://www.doi.gov/indiantrust
Trust Reform, NCAI - http://www.ncai.org/main/pages/
issues/other_issues/trust_reform.asp

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