Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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The most honest part of Norm Deschampe’s open letter on H.R. 1272, the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Trust Fund bill, is when he admitted that “It took another 10 years for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to confirm that the MCT was best suited to decide how to distribute the funds.” The reason it took the BIA a decade is because immediately following the 1999 settlement, President Deschampe of the Grand Portage Band -- along with the other three smallest bands, which collectively comprise about 20 percent of the damages and population of the MCT -...
This year, Congress held two hearings on legislative proposals to distribute a 1999 federal court settlement of $20 million approved for damages inflicted by the Nelson Act on six Indian reservations in Minnesota between the years of 1889 and 1934. At both hearings, members of Congress stated “the time has come to get this done.” I find it interesting that Congress is impatient when it comes to spending someone else's money but fails to lift a finger to return the 600,000 acres of Leech Lake homelands that were taken. Many in Congress talk abo...
