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Wednesday, May 04, 2016
Jewell announces $107M for Blackfeet land buy-back
Twenty years after Blackfeet social activist Elouise Cobell filed a
historic lawsuit demanding the federal government account for
generations of exploitation and mismanagement of tribal land across the
United States, Cobell’s own people stand ready to receive their
compensation. On Tuesday, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell
arrived at the Blackfeet Reservation to sign a compact allocating $107
million to buy back land allotted to tribal members 130 years ago, and
then transfer control of these “trust lands” over to the Blackfeet
tribal government. It is only a fraction of the $1.9 billion approved by Congress and signed into law as result of the Cobell lawsuit.“I
think history will say we hit a vital turning point before we drove off
a cliff,” Jewell said of the significance of the day’s events. “We hope
that this says, let’s bury the sins of the past, of which there were
many by the federal government not upholding its trust and treaty
obligations to our nation’s first people...more
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