Senate Rejects $3 Billion Indian Trust Settlement

Published: 07/23/10 - 3:20pm Written by Dick Pryor
The U.S. Senate has once again failed to pass legislation to settle a class-action lawsuit over the Interior Department's management of funds held in trust for Native Americans. Senators stripped the 3.4 billion dollar settlement out of a bill funding the president's troop surge in Afghanistan. The settlement calls for the Interior Department to distribute the money to more than 300,000 Indians, including members of the Osage Tribe in Oklahoma.