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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2002

When the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Tribe of Arizona, like a number of other tribes, was told it had to use the federal government's trust fund accounting system, it refused. So the tribe developed its own version of the Trust Asset and Accounting Management System (TAAMS) to pay landowners.

The decision was worth it. TAAMS has been shelved and the Bush administration is in the process of evaluating alternative solutions.

The tribe's system might be one of them, Federal Computer Week reports. Using a "patchwork of databases," the system cuts about 4,000 monthly checks to landowners.

The tribe has already outgrown the system and is working on an upgrade, tribal officials told FCW.

Get the Story:
Getting their due (Federal Computer Week 11/4)
A work in progress (Federal Computer Week 11/4)
Trust travails (Federal Computer Week 11/4)

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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