JC> In a way, this kinda sorta refutes the "U.S. government is all bad." 
syndro
  > Or "The big, bad BIA 'lost' all the money." It looks like in this 
particula
  > case the "money" was there all along, it just took a long time and a lot 
of
  > work to get it. Another interesting aspect of this case... The money was 
NO
  > "awarded", "put into a trust fund", etc. as the result of a treaty. Why 
_wa
  > the money "awarded"? Benevolent government?
The US government is a hodgepodge of good and bad.  When it sterilized
Indian women in the seventies, it was being bad.  When it put this money
aside, it was being good.  Sometimes I think it would be easier to deal
with a system that was all a villian, or all benevolent; but I guess the
reality is that that is not how human institutions , or human
individuals, work.
JC> And as I taxpayer, I resent the fact that the "government" wasted a lot 
f
  > _my_ money by not simply recognizing the dept and paying it sooner. One
  > could speculate where (economically speaking) the Cowlitz would be today 
if
  > $1.5 million had been given to them twenty years ago. One can put 
ogether
  > all kinds of scenarios.
That would be worthy of a poem, or story, or novel.  I wonder if there
are any Cowlitz thinking of writing it.  I don't think *I* should write
it.  I don't know enough about the Cowlitz to do it justice.
                           Sondra
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