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Witness list for Senate hearing on Cobell, trust reform
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee is holding an oversight hearing this morning on legislation to settle the Cobell v. Norton lawsuit and reform the broken Indian trust.
The hearing begins at 10am. It will be broadcast on the Internet [
Committee Web Site].
Here is the witness list, as released by the committee:
Panel I
MR. JIM CASON, Associate Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
Accompanied by: MR. ROSS SWIMMER, Special Trustee for American Indians, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
Panel II - (witnesses may not be testifying in the order listed on this panel)
THE HONORABLE TEX HALL, President, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, DC
CHIEF JIM GRAY, Chairman, Board of Directors, Inter-Tribal Monitoring Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico
MR. ERNEST L.STENSGAR, President, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, Portland, Oregon
MR. JAMES T. MARTIN, Executive Director, United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee
MS. ELOUISE P. COBELL, Blackfeet Reservation Development Fund, Browning, Montana
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Senate Documents:
John McCain Statement |
Byron Dorgan Statement |
Full Text of Bill as Introduced
Relevant Documents:
Trust
Reform and Cobell Settlement Workgroup Principles for Legislation (June
2005)
Related Story:
Federal
official: Native trust fund accounts vulnerable (The Lincoln Journal Star
7/21)
Relevant Links:
Indian Trust: Cobell v. Norton -
http://www.indiantrust.comCobell
v. Norton, Department of Justice -
http://www.usdoj.gov/civil/cases/cobell/index.htmNational
Congress of American Indians -
http://www.ncai.orgIntertribal
Trust Fund Monitoring Association -
http://www.itmatrustfunds.org
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