INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY

As Indian appellants of the Cobell settlement ponder continuing their appeal after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals shot them down May 22, a major tribal concern about the deal is being highlighted by one appellant. Kimberly Craven, a Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate citizen and landowner, says the $1.9 billion land consolidation portion of the Cobell settlement will operate under Indian Land Consolidation Act rules—rules established decades before the settlement was reached—unless U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar waives this provision.