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Subject: Ap: Cabinet Members in Contempt Cabinet Members Held in Contempt Filed by the Associated Press Washington; A federal judge held two Clinton administation Cabinet secretaries in contempt today over the government's delay in producing records of indian trust funds. Interior's Bureau of indian Affairs was ordered two yr. ago to turn over statements, checks and other documents on accounts held by five American Indians who are the lead plaintiffs in the suit against the Interior and Treasury departments. The funds include the 3000,000 accounts held by individual Indians and another 2,000 tribal accounts worth $2 billion. The money includes lease revenue, royalties and court settlements. Some of the accounts are worth only a few dollars. The largest one, valued at $400 million, is a court's award to the Sioux nation for it's loss of the Black Hills. The BIA was unable to document $2 billion of transactions in the tribal accounts over a 29-year period. It is not known how much of that is actually missing, but it has been estimated the government could be liable for up to $575 million in the tribal accounts alone. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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O Great Spirit whose voice i hear in the winds, and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me! I am small and weak, I need your strength and wisdom! LET ME WALK IN BEAUTY, and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. MAKE MY HANDS respect the things you have made my ears sharp to hear your voice. MAKE ME WISE so that i may understand the things you have taught my people. LET ME LEARN the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock. I SEEK STREGTH, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy---myself. MAKE ME ALWAYS READY to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes. So when Life Fades, as the fading sunset, my spirit may come to you without shame. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sacred Sites Threatened | Dear Friends, Your help is needed in all parts of the United states. "Progress' is destroying more places that are sacred to the Native Americans. We need to spin together for this cause! Please go to Moonsites44 web page for further information as to how we all can join together as one! URL: http://www.angelfire.com/ct/moonsites44/sacred.html
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