http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/us...an-tribes.htmlPresident Obama signed legislation in December 2010 authorizing payment for a similar, though far larger, settlement for Indians. That money, totaling $3.4 billion, has not been distributed because of several pending lawsuits.
I didn't realize they were still called Indians
So what's the incentive to stop such mismanagement in the future?
I figure I may as well get in in this. I think I'm 3/32 Indian. May as well get some of my tax dollars back.
Did I hear correct? maybe $25,000 a year? I didn't read the link yet, but heard a short part of this on the news. That you had to be 1/32nd Indian to qualify.
I miss the 1/2 hr News hour...
The Europeans screwed the Indians in many senses of the word.
People thinks it's cool to claim "I'm 1/x Cherokee or Apache or etc", but none of them would want to be 1/1 Indian.
Me too neither. Nomenclature is a stitch.
If the settlement of the dispute can be drawn out over a hundred years and settled for pennies on the dollar?
None whatsoever, absent any moral or ethical concern to repair the reputation of the USA or the estates of abused trustees.
Hawaiian trust lands have also been subject to thousands of "infringing" uses by government and private interests according to the Interior Department's own report of a generation ago.
wonder what's up there? is there any recognized native nation there, or did the vote for statehood make it passe?
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