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Ladies and Gentlemen, loves friends,
on 1 January 2004 13 o'clock came into pool of broadcasting corporations the documentary film
This documentary film left no peace to me. Therefore I asked a indianischen friend in the USA to procure to me exact information.
From the woman barrister of the Eloise Cobell, Mrs. Andrea horn leg, which for the release of Leonard Peltier uses itself, I have to publish permission the information in English and the German Übersetzungzu, so that the case admits with many humans becomes.
Our thanks go at Astrid Karsch, which English text translated.
Yours sincerely
Evelin Cervenkova
30.09.2002
Author: Dean Schabner
The indianische Aktivistin Eloise Cobell leads a fight against the US Government before court, in order to get the money back, which owes these since one century of their family and 300,000 others.
The government will lie far regarding the reform the Trust of find, says a judge
As a small girl Eloise Cobell heard, how their parents and grandparents weighted about the fact that the US Government them millions dollar for &Uuuml; bereignung of country it owes which was taken their ancestors, and she asked herself whether this would be true.
When it had arisen, it found out that the thing was still worse, than it had ever introduced itself.
Exit 19. Century said the government Mrs. Cobells ancestor that they would not be able to administer their country and them control of the country undertook to pay with the promise, the family portions from the sales from wood, pasture rights and rights to the exploitation of the minerals and oil fields.
The payments came so sporadically and in so irregular amounts that the relatives of Mrs. Cobell became distrustful. These assumptions seem to be confirmed now by the lack of any account documents for the payments, say them.
Mrs. Cobells family is not concerned as only. There are approx. 300,000 humans, who the government owes money, and which debts amount - according to statement of Mrs. Cobell and their lawyer team, who sued the government in the year 1996 for receipt of an account and a remuneration - to 137 billion dollar.
The government however knows from nothing.
“I grew up thereby”, said Mrs. Cobell. “It is, how if one has somewhat always in the back of the head, from which one white that it is wrong.”
A call after account
In the 115 years after resolution of the “Dawes act”, which permitted the government, the administration of 36 million hectare Indian country to take over and but trust accounts to furnish “individually the Indian Monies trusts” the vouchers for it were lost, were destroyed or were not usually even waived.
And as the officials in the ministry of the Interior to bring and a plan for the correct future administration of the trust accounts develop order into the accounts, did they received the instruction nothing at all and masked this. That says a Federal High Court Judge, who makes the interior minister Gale Norton responsible for these errors.
“This insincere behavior shocked me really,” says Mrs. Cobell. “You can break the spirit of humans, who try to far without punishment, it to the compensation of their errors to bring.”
“My goal is it to bring the government to correct the system”, says it. “I would like that she must take responsibility for humans, who represent her. With a case of business corruption there is always large shouting. If a bank would defraud the money of other humans, the responsible persons for it would have to go into the prison.”
“An important decision”
Mrs. Cobell, 56 years old and master member of the Blackfeet, began her fight for the disclosure of the trust accounts in the year 1996 before the U.S. - District court in Washington, D.C. Into that the judge decided meanwhile six years continuous judicial negotiations repeated in favor of the Indians.
The most current judgement from 17 September (2002), in which the judge of the U.S. of district court Royce Lamberth the management the Trust of find by the government as dishonor designated and minister Norton for guilty found Mrs., was “a quantum transition forward” for the thing of the Indians, says Geoffrey Rempel, a coworker of the lawyer team of Mrs. Cobell.
Judge Lamberth implements the problems in a 267-seitigen report that Gale Norton did not follow its request, in the administration of the trust accounts to solve and he called four cases, in which the ministry of the Interior had deceived the court.
“This decision is a genuine milestone”, says Rempel.
It calls the decision an important step in the direction to transfer the administration of the accounts from the ministry of the Interior to independent managers.
“An incapable manager of the United States”
Judge Lamberth assigned the ministry of the Interior to prepare by 06 January 2003 a plan able to work for the administration of the trust accounts.
The judgement meant: “The ministry of the Interior has the court, to which opposite Congress and the individual indianischen creditors indisputably it proved that it can not managen the trust accounts either or does not want. Still more badly, the Ministry showed that it cannot be entrusted longer with the reporting over the efforts during the disclosure of the trust accounts. Briefly said, there is no more doubt to the fact that the interior minister in this regard was an incapable assigned one for the United States and further will be.”
The lawyers of the Ministry of Justice, who appeared as defenders of the ministry of the Interior, criticized the judgement and reserved themselves to go into appointment.
“The Ministry of Justice is not the opinion that the facts of this case or the right which can be used justify, said such an accusation” the deputy general attorney Robert McCallum. “We contradict the judicial ruling and with all possibilities of an appointment will be concerned.”
The chairman of the supervision committee for the ministry of the Interior and indianische affairs said, into which decision of the judge would not be the status of the affair been received, to which at the beginning prevailed to the activity of Gale Norton.
“An decade-old problem of the Federal Government inherited you”, said the republican James Hansen, Utah, after the judicial ruling. “I personally believe that the decision of the judge is unfair and its exzellente work ignores.”
Gale Norton had appointed a committee of master leaders, which should advise her with the reform of the trust accounts, but the chieftains demanded that an independent committee takes over the supervision over the accounts, what however the ministry of the Interior did not accept.
Gale Norton is not the first U.S. - Politician, who is made responsible in this thing. Judge Lamberth had already 1999 the former Minister of the Interior of the Clinton government, Bruce Babbitt, which accuses deputy Minister of the Interior of Kevin Gover and the Minister of Finance Robert ruby.
The court found that the two Ministries under Babbitt and ruby repeats the delivery of documents had retarded, important documents were destroyed and that before court under oath wrong statements were made.
Gale Norton was “at best only slightly accomodating more than their predecessor”, said judge Lamberth in its judgement.
“The judge accuses Mrs. of Norton not for the state of affairs at the beginning of her activity”, said Rempel. “He says that Mrs. Norton states to reform the trust accounts during it actually nothing to such a thing does.”
“No high science”
Already before Mrs. Cobell took up her fight, a committee of the Congresses found 20 in the late 80's. Century out that oil companies stole money from the trust accounts from the beginning, and that it with knowledge of the government it did this. In the year 1989 the Congress requested to bring order into the trust accounts.
The account company received this order from Arthur Andersen in the year 1991, but due to the bad condition the find no results could be supplied.
Since 1994 the government over 600 million dollar spent, vorgeblich on efforts to reform the Trust of find says Rempel, but it repeats expressed judicial rulings to testify that until today no crucial progress was obtained.
“One must really ask oneself, where this money went, says” it.
Even after one century of the Missmanagements, Rempel says, should not be not so difficult it for the government to set up a balance of the debts opposite the creditors.
“Finally the things, about which we talk here, are not high science”, say Rempel. “We speak here of bookkeeping and account - of things, those in the private economy to be daily accomplished.”
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/indian_trust020930.html
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