The Associate Deputy Interior Secretary James Cason sent a "Dear Tribal Leader" letter detailing a plan to cut various Indian programs to pay some of the $7 million in legal fees and expenses Cobell was awarded against the government for stealing over $4 billion "Indian" dollars. The government lost a lawsuit and should not punish the people who won by paying them from their own money. This is absurd.

Legislation is pending regarding this lawsuit, and I strongly urge lawmakers to vote in favor of the Indian Trust beneficiaries - for what is right and honorable (for a change). It is time the u.s. government takes responsibility for its gross mismanagement of Indian Trust money. Has not the mismanagement and theft of Indigenous American Indian funds, resources, and lands caused Indigenous Peoples to have suffered enough?

Please do the right thing by voting to hold the government accountable for mismanaging billions in tribal monies.