{"id":1113,"date":"2005-10-16T12:07:31","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T16:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2005-10-16T12:07:31","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T16:07:31","slug":"indian-families-due-billions-repayment-possible-with-your-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"Indian Families Due Billions; Repayment Possible With Your Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>President Bush repeatedly says, ?We ought to trust people with their own money.? We encourage him to expand his thinking to include Native Americans whose land profits are held (and withheld) by the federal government. American Indians were not trusted to manage their own money. Instead, the federal government took charge in 1887 but has made such a horrendous mess of the Indian land trust accounts that the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs found it to be one of the two worst government management scandals in U. S. history. <\/p>\n<p>Senators McCain (AZ) and Dorgan (ND) have introduced the Indian Trust Reform Act of 2005 (S. 1439) to repay as many as 500,000 American Indians whose money ?disappeared? while in government accounts. It is morally imperative that this bill be taken seriously by congressional leadership and the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcnl.org\/act_lam_current\/lam0825_05.htm\"><strong>Act Now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush repeatedly says, ?We ought to trust people with their own money.? We encourage him to expand his thinking to include Native Americans whose land profits are held (and withheld) by the federal government. American Indians were not trusted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1113\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-hX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}