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31 NARF Legal Rev. 1 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/narf31 and id is 1 raw text is: NARF WINS BIG VICTORY AS FEDERAL COURT ALLOWS PEMBINA CHIPPEWA DAMAGES CLAIMS TO GO FORWARD In 1863 and 1892, plaintiffs' ancestors ceded lands totaling some 20 million acres to the United States. The Indian Claims Commission and this court awarded compensation for those lands. The compensation held in trust by the United States. This suit seeks damages for mismanage- ment by the United States of the funds it held in trust. So begins the Opinion of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in its opinion dated January 26, 2006, in the case Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, and the White Earth Band of Minnesota Chippewa Indians, et al. v. United States. The Court's fifty-five (55) awarded was then United States to get the case dismissed or substantially reduced. It allows the case to go forward to determine whether the United States breached its trust responsibilities to the Pembina Chippewas with respect to their trust NARF Wins Big Victory as Federal Court Allows Pembina Chippewa Damages Claims to Go Forward .............. page 1 The Voting Rights Act and Alaska .................................. page 7 CASE UPDATES - Klamath Basin Adjudication .......................... page 10 - Draft Declaration on Indigenous Peoples .................................. page 11 New Board Members ................ page 12 CALLING TRIBES TO ACTION! .................................................. page 13 Indian Law Library .................. page 14 page opinion is a stunning victory for these four tribes, who also are known as the Pembina Chippewa Tribes. It comes almost fourteen years after the case was filed by the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) on behalf of the Pembina Chippewa Tribes. It rejects four major arguments by the funds, and to determine an amount of damages for which the United States is liable for those breaches. The Pembina Chippewas' $53 million judgment award is the second largest Indian judgment award The Pembina Chippewas' trust fund is not small. In 1991 as the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs entered into a contract with the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen to reconcile all 1500 tribal trust funds held by the United States, the Pembina Chippewa trust fund was listed as the second largest judgment fund being managed by the United States at that time. The total awards to the Pembina Chippewas by the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) - in 1964 and1980 - were about $53 million. Only the ICC awards to the Lakota (Sioux) Nations of about $200 million exceeded those of the Pembina Chippewas. I WINTER/SPRING 2006 VOLUME 31, NO.1

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