The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds an oversight hearing on Legislation to Resolve Cobell v. Norton.

The Cobell lawsuit was filed by the late Elouise Cobell, of the Blackfeet Nation, to hold the U.S. government accountable for the billions of dollars held in trust for individual Indian landowners.

The hearing took place on July 26, 2005, during the 109th Congress.

WITNESS LIST

Panel I

MR. JIM CASON, Associate Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. Accompanied by: MR. ROSS SWIMMER, Special Trustee for American Indians, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.

Panel II - (witnesses may not be testifying in the order listed on this panel)

THE HONORABLE TEX HALL, President, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, DC

CHIEF JIM GRAY, Chairman, Board of Directors, Inter-Tribal Monitoring Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico

MR. ERNEST L.STENSGAR, President, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, Portland, Oregon

MR. JAMES T. MARTIN, Executive Director, United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee

MS. ELOUISE P. COBELL, Blackfeet Reservation Development Fund, Browning, Montana

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