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Individual Navajo allottees excluded from settlement

NAVAJO COUNCIL CONTINUES DEBATING LEGISLATION 0131-14, SETTLEMENT OF FEDERAL TRUST MISMANAGEMENT LAWSUIT BROUGHT BY NAVAJO NATION AGAINST U.S. FOR $554 MILLION AND OTHER BENEFITS AND CONCESSIONS. DELEGATE DWIGHT WITHERSPOON I’m concerned about settlement settling all mismanagement of our monies. But this does not apply to Water Rights or anything in future, uranium. it also provides […]

CORRECTION: Settlement amount is $554 million and not $54 million

NAVAJO NATION COUNCIL DEBATING LEGISLATION 0131-14: RELATING TO EMERGENCY; APPROVING THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE NAVAJO NATION AND THE UNITED STATES, AND AUTHORIZING THE NAVAJO NATION PRESIDENT, ATTORNEY GENERAL, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE ATTORNEYS OF RECORD TO EXECUTE THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE Eloluise Cobell brought lawsuit. She was from another tribe but […]