[JoeProBono]

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2009 file photo, Elouise Cobell, right, looks on as Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes testifies during a Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. Caught in the Senate filibuster of a bill to extend unemployment payments is a $3.4 billion government settlement with hundreds of thousands of American Indians over claims that the Interior Department mismanaged their land trust accounts

[fish hawk]

What can you say. It was stolen from them and now returned. Lucky they didn't charge big interest.

[WellyP]

“...$3.4 billion government settlement with Indian trust beneficiaries...” Why do we need to give the Indians any more money? Enough is enough, let them live off thier casinos!

[Cyber Ninja]

I think I just figured out why there is no
“The Government Did Something Right” ping list.

[Walrus]

This is exactly why you have to throw YOUR SOB out this November!!!!!

[blueplum]

so...I don’t understand this fractional thing very well. Uncle Sam is to buy back land fractions and then give them to the Tribe, who can (or not) then sell them back to the original sellers? Why can’t tribal members sell the fractions amongst themselves instead of to the Tribe, how does this affect future individual property ownership rights of a tribal indian to Tribal land - and, why does the Govt need to be the broker?