How agency intends to fill in account gaps
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By Chris Casteel
Published: October 11, 2007
WASHINGTON — The Department of Interior has a plan to provide all American Indians who have individual trust accounts with an accurate historical record of their account activity and balances, a government attorney told a federal judge on Wednesday.
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If the GAO has not been able to keep a finacial statement of all the monies that have been put into the IIM account all these past 200 years, how can a Judge really think that they are going to do the right thing and their fiduciary responsibility now? It has been just a long-drawn out trial and now the government agents of the DOI and the Congress need to be responsible now and pay back the Native People what they owe.
Candace, Lakeland - Nov 6, 2007 11:47 AM
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Can you imagine putting your money in an account and the bank telling you they will give you the balance of that account in 2011? It is not satisfactory for a government that runs a country like our America to not keep records of accounting. How can this happen in America? I wrote to the National Archives in Fort Worth, Texas called NARA and they sent me records of my grandfathers and grandmothers allottment and the minuscule amount of money they got for their sacrifices of land, oil and gas and cattle leases. It is shameful the way they had to scrap by to live. Then, when they passed away the funeral home directors moved on to their land and lived on it without paying any taxes since it is called "Federal Indian Land"!!! This is just another injustice...
Candace, Lakeland - Oct 24, 2007 10:39 PM
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