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Family wins $3.1 million against BIA
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2002 A federal judge has ordered the Bureau of Indian Affairs to pay $3.1 million for the death of a man who died on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. Leland Kicking Woman went to a logging site operated by the BIA in 1993 to look for a job. He was struck by a falling tree as he tried to prevent another from being injured. Kicking Woman was paralyzed and died from heart failure in 1994. Get the Story:
BIA ordered to pay family $3.1 million (The Great Falls Tribune 3/27)
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