[Eric in the Ozarks]

‘zackly. This is not the end of this story. American Indians will never get what's due them, therefor an unlimited number of trial lawyers in future years will determine there was fraud somewhere in this settlement and the shakedown will go on.

[kingu]

How is it a shakedown when the feds control access and mineral rights, get money for the oil pumped up, then fail at the simplist bookkeeping task and fail to keep track of what land earned what, or fail to pay the land holders that they forced to accept federal trust status? This whole case started because a woman wanted to get paid the oil royalties she was due and the feds said what money?