U.S. offers to pay Native Americans

[Rakehel]

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$1.4 billion for lost funds

By Paul Courson, CNN
December 8, 2009 11:21 p.m. EST

Washington (CNN) -- Thousands of American Indians would receive as much as $1,000 each if they accept a proposed $1.4 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit over government mismanagement of tribal lands.


The suit, filed in 1996, accused the U.S. Department of the Interior of failing to account for and provide revenue from a trust fund representing the value of Indian assets managed by the government.


As part of the settlement, the federal government would agree to establish a $2 billion program to buy small fractions of land to help sellers obtain value from ancestral property, which then would be held by tribal governments.


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[Theresa]

more bangles and beads

[Rakehel]

I'd take all the money they'd give me and any additional amount I could get in a heartbeat. I'd still be who I was, intact with my scruples and beliefs, and have some more money too. Otherwise, it will just go to someone else, like a banker, and nothing else will change anyway.