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Navajo Nation Land Buy-Back Program Approved

Navajo Nation Land Buy-Back Program Approved

ARIZONA – As of yesterday the Navajo Nation Land Buy-Back Program has received its final approval from Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly.

The U.S Department of Interior and the Navajo Nations will work together to implement the land consolidation provisions of the Cobell settlement. This allows individuals to sell their land back to the Navajo Nation, which will put the land back in the trust of…

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Land Buy back program, what does it mean?

Land Buy back program, what does it mean?

ARIZONA – How this will help develop rural areas on the Nation still needs to be researched. However, officials are moving in the right direction to help consolidate those activities. Here is the full press release from the Navajo Nation Legislative branch. Received Fri. March 27.

The Naabik’iyátí’ Committee received a report from federal officials with the Land Buy-Back Program, regarding a…

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Interior Sends $34 Million in Additional Offers to Landowners with Fractional Interests at Rosebud Indian Reservation 

WASHINGTON –Continuing the momentum of the Department of the Interior’s Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program), Deputy Secretary Mike Connor Tuesday announced that more than $34 million in additional purchase offers have been sent to almost 11,000 landowners with fractional interests at the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Interested sellers have 45 days – until…

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Indianz.Com > DOI makes $9M in buy-back offers on Coeur d'Alene Reservation

Indianz.Com > DOI makes $9M in buy-back offers on Coeur d’Alene Reservation

The Interior Department has sent out $9 million in offers to landowners on the Coeur d’Alene Reservation in Idaho.

The offers were made to more than 400 landowners as part of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations. Participation is voluntary and any interests that are acquired will be transferred to the Coeur d’Alene Tribe.

“This year, we have made a significant and lasting step toward our…

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Feds pay final installments of $3.4 million settlement to Native Americans

Feds pay final installments of $3.4 million settlement to Native Americans

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In 1996, Elouise Cobell, a member of Montana’s Blackfeet Tribe, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of 500,000 Native landowners. Cobell’s lawyers argued that the federal government had deprived them of at least $170 billion in mineral royalty payments on reservation land, due to over a century of mismanagement by the Indian Trust system. The feds eventually agreed to pay $3.4…

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DOI makes $63.5M in land offers on Lake Traverse Reservation

DOI makes $63.5M in land offers on Lake Traverse Reservation

The Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations keeps on rolling — this time with $63.5 million in offers to landowners on the Lake Traverse Reservation.

The reservation — home to the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate — straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border. Nearly 2,800 landowners there have received offers to sell their fractionated interests. The Buy-Back Program is a unique opportunity and I am…

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DOI sends $298M in offers to landowners on Crow Reservation

DOI sends $298M in offers to landowners on Crow Reservation

The Interior Department has sent out more than $298 million in offers to landowners on the Crow Reservation in Montana.

The offers were made to more than 4,000 landowners as part of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations. Participation is voluntary and any interests that are acquired will be transferred to the Crow tribal government.

“Today’s announcement continues the Buy-Back Program’s…

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Holding the U.S. Accountable for Funds Held in Trust

Holding the U.S. Accountable for Funds Held in Trust

Several years ago I discovered correspondence between my great grandfather, Albert Leo Lord (1865 – 1931) and the Department of Interior. His ideas of economic self-sufficiency for Indian people and Tribes were scoffed at by the superintendent of the Department Of The Interior as were his assertions of discrimination. Mr. A.L. Lord corresponded with the Department of the Interior on at least 7…

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