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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2003

"I am responding to Al Knight's column in which he attempts to sufficiently analyze the complex situation of the Indian trust accounts, utilizing a small amount of paragraphs and all the while finding sarcastic humor in "how the government tricked Indian tribes, violated treaties and continues to break its promises."

In his analysis of the figures involved in the claims of hundreds of thousands of American Indians, he declares that "somebody is exaggerating," insinuating that lawyers are in sole charge of deciphering the total monetary and land losses that these families have suffered at the hands of the United States government ever since the tragic days of the Homestead Act. . ."

Get the Story:
Letter: Time can't erase or minimize Indian trust-fund losses [fourth item] (Aaron Carapalla. The Denver Post 1/15)

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