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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lunkerslayer" data-source="post: 142741" data-attributes="member: 217">I don't know why I do this to myself I must be gluttons for punishment, with that said I would like to bring you back in time when the federal government mismanaged indian trust land allowing non indians to buy up land that was never supposed to be transferred from indian allotments. Eloise Cobell which was a banker for a blackfoot tribe out of montana investigated land that was sold off to private individual without the consent of the federal government 100 of millions of acres of land which showed that the land was never supposed to be sold. She estimated that the land was worth at the time 176,000,000,000 dollars which included land, mineral , and water rights. According to US law, Indian lands are technically not owned by tribes or individual Indians themselves but are held in trust by the US governmentSo now the Obama settles for a fraction of the original settlement of a number of 3.4 billion dollars (indian money in settlement) (176,000,000,000 dollars which 1.9 billion dollars was used to buy back fractionalized land of indian property which some was part of federal lands allotment. BUT the federal government has only given the indians 900 million of the 1.9 billion dollars of the proposed settlement so far.<a href="http://nativeamericanhistory.about.com/od/Law/a/The-History-Behind-The-Cobell-Case.htm" target="_blank">http://nativeamericanhistory.about.com/od/Law/a/The-History-Behind-The-Cobell-Case.htm</a></blockquote>

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