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Trust fund bill fair to Chippewa bands
Norman Deschampe|Apr 26, 2012
Tomorrow, the House Natural Resources Committee will mark up H.R. 1272, the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Judgment Fund Distribution Act of 2011. The legislation provides for a long-overdue distribution of $20 million appropriated in 1999 and held in trust on behalf of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe after a settlement and federal court judgment in favor of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe for federal misfeasance in implementing the Nelson Act of 1889. The only party to the litigation, the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (MCT), has embraced the distribution plan...