by marykmusic » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:36 pm
Adding insult to injury, a federal appeals court decided that the bookkeeping is SO screwed up, it's impossible to figure out exactly how much money is owed to Native American tribes.<br><br>Part of the story:<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The accounting had been ordered by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who is overseeing a class-action lawsuit in which thousands of Native Americans claim they were cheated out of more than $100 billion in oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties overseen by the Interior Department since 1887.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>The rest of the story: <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1116indian16.html" target="top">Court: Indian money accounting would be impossible </a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> --MaryK <p></p><i></i>
