DOJ settles with 41 tribes for $1B, ending century old disputes

[Winehole23]

President 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. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/us/us-to-pay-1-billion-settlement-to-indian-tribes.html

[Blake]

I didn't realize they were still called Indians

[ElNono]

So what's the incentive to stop such mismanagement in the future?

[Wild Cobra]

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.

:stirpot:

[boutons_deux]

I think I'm 3/32 Indian.

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.

[Winehole23]

I didn't realize they were still called IndiansMe too neither. Nomenclature is a stitch.

[Winehole23]

So what's the incentive to stop such mismanagement in the future?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.

[Winehole23]

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?