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Ruby Withrow remembers the happy days she spent as a young child on her grandfather Moses Bruno's 80-acre homestead near Shawnee, Okla. There the extended Bruno family, members of the Potawatomi tribe, tended large gardens of vegetables and fruits and raised chickens, hogs and cows. On Sundays the whole family attended the Sacred Heart Catholic Mission just down the road. But all that changed soon after oil was discovered on the Bruno property...
Over the past decade, many of the families have begun actively pursuing what they say is their rightful legacy. In 1996 Elouise Cobell, a member of the Blackfeet tribe, filed a $135 billion class action against the U.S. government, claiming that billions of dollars belonging to some 500,000 Native Americans and their heirs had been mismanaged or stolen from accounts held in trust since the late 19th century. Through document discovery and courtroom testimony, the Cobell case revealed mismanagement, ineptness, dishonesty and delay by federal officials, leading U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth to declare their conduct "fiscal and governmental...
...there's nothing to disturb them." For two decades, the people in Agok's village of Mayenwal have lived a life of fear. When the Sudanese military captured the nearby city of Rumbek in the mid-'80s, the villagers walked for two weeks to a quiet area in another tribe's lands, far from the fighting. They weathered famine, sometimes eating leaves, and when the southern rebel army retook the city in 1997, began their slow trickle back. But they have been too poor and felt too vulnerable to put down roots. Outside government-held towns, there are no telephones...
...statement on the HLS website, Tribe said he hopes the brief will make the SJC “sit up and listen,” noting that experts “spanning the ideological spectrum” signed the brief...
...credibility of the court is at risk in this case, Tribe said...