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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2002

Tom Slonaker, former Special Trustee for the Indian trust, will testify at a Senate hearing tomorrow about his ouster from the Department of Interior.

Associate Deputy Secretary Jim Cason will also testify, The Arizona Republic reports. Secretary Gale Norton will not.

Slonaker was ousted after he questioned Norton's claims of progress. He disputed a costly and time-consuming historical accounting, a proposed reconciliation of several thousand trust fund accounts, the release of a controversial document containing private financial data and a quarterly report a federal judge later said was misleading. He also testified for the plaintiffs in Norton's contempt trial.

Tomorrow's hearing before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee will be held at 10 a.m.

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Senate will hear testimony about Indian trust fund (The Arizona Republic 9/22)
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Relevant Links:
Indian Trust: Cobell v. Norton - http://www.indiantrust.com
Cobell v. Norton, Department of Justice - http://www.usdoj.gov/civil/cases/cobell/index.htm
Indian Trust, Department of Interior - http://www.doi.gov/indiantrust
Trust Reform, NCAI - http://www.ncai.org/main/pages/
issues/other_issues/trust_reform.asp

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