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Show # 1046 Page 10 issue has presented more about the original title the concern is universal. And it is the concern of all of these people nationwide. Claims lawyers have tended to get their fee once the claim is adjudicated and the offset settled. Usually the offsets are not fought hard, you know, like the government or the claims attorneys they've, you know, pick up their top ten percent and they don't even consider the distribution of the money, and they're not worriad about it anymore, and they leave the whole case, but the, the offsets is something that has never been showed to the people. It's never been listed, what they were, in telling the claims . You know, what day, what year these offsets are happening. This results in all kinds of fights. Results in the fights in if not in the reservation. You know, should the money go in to investment for capital distribution, and will the Indian people ever receive the money, and it hasn't happened yet. We have a land claims award settled in 1968 that has never been distributed to the people yet. But the claims attorneys got their money so they're not concerned about that. And they're trying to get five hundred thousand out of fifteen million released immediately for the building of a new judicial center and rehabilitation center and jobs on the reservation. For the monies are being misused, you know, even in that direction as well. And certain cases of this |
