America’s only Native Senator slammed the U.S. government for dragging its feet and hindering efforts to correct mismanagement of $3 billion in Native funds.
The Interior Department is accused of gross mismanagement of the trust accounts for 338 First Nations and 300,000 individual Natives. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, clashed with Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt at a hearing on the issue.
The government is being sued over the mismanagement. Babbit has been fined several hundred thousand dollars for contempt of court after not complying with court orders related to the lawsuit.
