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Wyoming Indians To Be Briefed on Trust Settlement
3/29/2010
Information on how Native Americans in Wyoming may be able to share in a recently announced $3.4 billion settlement of Indian Trust claims will be discussed at meetings this week.
Geoffrey Rempel and Alex Pearl, members of a litigation team that helped negotiate the settlement, will be visiting Indian communities in the state to share information about the agreement.
They will visit the Northern Arapaho Tribe Wednesday (March 31) from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Great Plains Hall, 15 Great Plains Road in Arapahoe.
Later Wednesday (March 31) they will visit the Eastern Shoshone at Rocky Mountain Hall, 25 North Fork Road in Lander from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Native Americans who have individual Indian money trust accounts (IIM) or who own individual Indian trust land are welcome to attend the meeting and ask questions about the settlement.
The Obama administration announced the proposed agreement to resolve a 14-year-old class action lawsuit Ms. Elouise Cobell, a member of the Blackfeet Nation, and other Native Americans filed against the government in 1996. The lawsuit claims that the federal government mismanaged individual Indians' trust accounts.
Congress and the courts must approve the settlement.
Under the proposed terms, the federal government will create a $1.4 billion Accounting/Trust Administration Fund and a $2 billion Trust Land Consolidation Fund. The settlement also creates an Indian Education Scholarship fund of up to $60 million to improve access to higher education for Indians.
"We believe this agreement will be a tremendous help to individual Indians and to Indian County as a whole," Ms. Cobell has said. "With the support of Native Americans, I hope Congress will soon take action to resolve this wrong."
Note to News Media: Rempel and Pearl will be available for interviews.
Background on the case and the proposed settlement is at
www.cobellsettlement.com
For further information:
Bill McAllister
703-385-6996
or 202-257-5385
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