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Billings to host tribal consultation on settlement
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- Parent Category: News
- Category: Social Issues & Criminal Justice
- Published: 22 June 2011
Billings, Montana (AP) June 2011
Billings will host the first of six regional tribal consultations on the trust land component of the governments $3.4 billion settlement with American Indians over mismanaged royalties.
Deputy Interior Secretary David J. Hayes said in a statement last week that the talks will help free up trust lands and will involve tribal leaders from the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains. A date for the Billings meeting wasnt announced.
Native American plaintiffs claimed that trust accounts for hundreds of thousands of Indians were mismanaged by the government for more than a century, costing them billions of dollars.
The settlement calls for $1.5 billion for individual account holders. The government would use another $1.9 billion to buy broken-up Indian lands from individual owners and turn them over to tribes.
Billings will host the first of six regional tribal consultations on the trust land component of the governments $3.4 billion settlement with American Indians over mismanaged royalties.
Deputy Interior Secretary David J. Hayes said in a statement last week that the talks will help free up trust lands and will involve tribal leaders from the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains. A date for the Billings meeting wasnt announced.
Native American plaintiffs claimed that trust accounts for hundreds of thousands of Indians were mismanaged by the government for more than a century, costing them billions of dollars.
The settlement calls for $1.5 billion for individual account holders. The government would use another $1.9 billion to buy broken-up Indian lands from individual owners and turn them over to tribes.