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		<title>Residency and identity: Bringing the Senate problem &#8220;home&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/residency-and-identity-bringing-the-senate-problem-home</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 02:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the squeeze on Senators to identify themselves based on where they live, I'm reminded of how identity-by-residency quandries play out among Aboriginal people]]></description>
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		<title>Number 64: Waiting for the next Aboriginal Affairs Minister appointment</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/number-64-waiting-for-the-next-aboriginal-affairs-minister-appointment</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/number-64-waiting-for-the-next-aboriginal-affairs-minister-appointment#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ellen fairclough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jean chretien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Duncan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mediaindigena.com/?p=9465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking back at the Ministers who've held the portfolio over the decades, one wonders how much it really matters who's next]]></description>
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		<title>Get out your wallets: Ottawa appeals ruling on Métis and Non-Status Indians</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/get-out-your-wallets-ottawa-appeals-ruling-on-metis-and-non-status-indians</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/get-out-your-wallets-ottawa-appeals-ruling-on-metis-and-non-status-indians#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Métis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-status indians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Court rules Canada must live up to its responsibilities to certain Métis and Non-Status Indians; the federal government says it can't afford to]]></description>
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		<title>Read All About It! Métis and Non-Status Indians Win Recognition at Federal Court</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/read-all-about-it-metis-and-non-status-indians-win-recognition-at-federal-court</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/read-all-about-it-metis-and-non-status-indians-win-recognition-at-federal-court#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 04:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Status]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indian status; metis; constitution;]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Court rules that metis and non-status indians fall under the definition of "indians" under section 91 (24) of the Canadian Constitution.]]></description>
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		<title>Unequal and Indifferent: Why access to quality education isn&#8217;t coming any time soon</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/unequal-and-indifferent-why-access-to-quality-education-isnt-coming-any-time-soon</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/unequal-and-indifferent-why-access-to-quality-education-isnt-coming-any-time-soon#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education costs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mediaindigena.com/?p=8765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Doing the math on the cost of education on reserves]]></description>
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		<title>Quake Sends Ripples Beyond Haida Gwaii</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/quake-sends-ripples-beyond-haida-gwaii</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/quake-sends-ripples-beyond-haida-gwaii#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enbridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haida gwaii]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pipeline]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Quakes and pipelines and risks and rhetoric.]]></description>
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		<title>Now that&#8217;s funny</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/thats-funny</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/thats-funny#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LIVING]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humour; stereotypes; racism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with funny.]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: &#8220;Gordon Winter,&#8221; a play by Kenneth T. Williams</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/arts-and-culture/guilty-a-review-of-kenneth-t-williams-play-gordon-winter</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/arts-and-culture/guilty-a-review-of-kenneth-t-williams-play-gordon-winter#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ARTS+CULTURE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Ahenakew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Tootoosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Playwright Kenneth T. Williams]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mediaindigena.com/?p=8197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the life and public shaming of former chief David Ahenakew.]]></description>
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		<title>Aglukkaq&#8217;s anger towards UN food security envoy is political, not personal</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/speaking-for-the-government-or-the-people</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/speaking-for-the-government-or-the-people#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 22:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leona Aglukkaq]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mediaindigena.com/?p=7958</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Canada's Health Minister's protests about UN criticism of how the federal government ensures the right to food for all in Canada ring a discordant note.]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW:  &#8216;Runaway Dreams: Poems by Richard Wagamese&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/arts-and-culture/review-runaway-dreams-poems-by-richard-wagamese</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/arts-and-culture/review-runaway-dreams-poems-by-richard-wagamese#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ARTS+CULTURE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Wagamese]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mediaindigena.com/?p=7611</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A review of the first poetry collection by Ojibway author Richard Wagamese.]]></description>
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		<title>A Leap of Faith: Trust and the Relationship with Government</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/a-leap-of-faith-trust-and-the-relationship-with-government</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/a-leap-of-faith-trust-and-the-relationship-with-government#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shawn Atleo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mediaindigena.com/?p=7522</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Renewing the relationship between First Nations and Ottawa and a discussion on retiring the Indian Act.]]></description>
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		<title>How to Apologise</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/how-to-apologise</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/how-to-apologise#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Barnard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth and Reconcilation Commission]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Truth and Reconciliation apology of another colour from University of Manitoba vice-chancellor.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;No longer. No further. No more.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/no-longer-no-further-no-more</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/no-longer-no-further-no-more#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elouise Cobell]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mediaindigena.com/?p=7305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tribute to Blackfeet warrior Elouise Cobell and her 16 year legal battle for justice over government mismanagement of Indian Trust money.]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: &#8220;Extra Indians&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/extra-indians-book-review</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/extra-indians-book-review#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ARTS+CULTURE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eric gansworth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A 2011 American Book Award pick that gives the absolute best and most horrifying description of a run-in with a bear guaranteed to make you sit back and reconsider the way we do the things we do.]]></description>
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		<title>Oil’s Slippery Slope</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/business-and-economy/oils-slippery-slope</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/business-and-economy/oils-slippery-slope#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BUSINESS/ECONOMY]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mediaindigena.com/?p=7128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like oil. Oil brings me things. Things like home heating, air conditioning, electricity. It means people aren&#8217;t burning trees so I can hike through forests. It means people aren&#8217;t burning coal so I can breathe without blackening my lungs. It means communities don&#8217;t have to be flooded so someone can jam up a river to create hydro power instead of burning oil. That means no-one has to bribe someone else to take in the nuclear waste generated by the plant that occasionally goes off-line and leaks radiation. It means I can visit my brothers at either end of the country in under a day. I can visit my mother three-thousand miles away at the drop of a hat. It means some of my friends and some of my extended family have jobs. BUT&#8230; I don&#8217;t like oil development. I don&#8217;t like the odour at extraction sites. I don&#8217;t like the sludge and goo that gets dredged up and left to stain the earth. I don&#8217;t like how the industry moves in and chews up the landscape and drives elk and caribou and moose and deer and bears and wolverines away. I really don&#8217;t like seeing ducks and pelicans and cormorants struggling and failing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One little planet. One BIG farm.</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/business-and-economy/one-little-planet-one-big-farm</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/business-and-economy/one-little-planet-one-big-farm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BUSINESS/ECONOMY]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mediaindigena.com/?p=6996</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the &#8217;30s, the days of the family farm have been numbered. The dustbowl sucked young farmers off the land faster than you can say &#8220;plague of grasshoppers.&#8221; But there were always dirt die-hards who hung on — even flourished — once the rain fell again and the insecticide giants and genetically modified crop scientists bent their heads to the task. So there still are family farmers. Still those glorious fields of gold you drive past down rural roads, the wind buffeting the hand you trail out the window, the radio booming out Northern Cree Singers tunes. Yet the dominant trend toward corporate farms — big business owners operating on a mass scale, ploughing and seeding tracts of land not for the benefit of rural economies, but for shareholders in urban boardrooms — has never halted. Those entities dug in and wheeled and dealed and cultivated hectare after hectare until all the eye could see on some of those country drives was the outdoor factory floor of industrial farming. In the United States, corporatisation of the land met with more resistance. Nine midwestern states have, over time, adopted restrictions by statute or constitutional mandate. Corporate farming has been viewed with suspicion in some regions. But here in Canada, one corporation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portrait of a Photographer: Edward Curtis Comes to Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/living/portrait-of-a-photographer-edward-curtis-comes-to-canada</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/living/portrait-of-a-photographer-edward-curtis-comes-to-canada#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 02:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ARTS+CULTURE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LIVING]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[REFERENCE+RESOURCES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[edward s. curtis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[western history]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BOOK REVIEW: Edward S. Curtis: Above the Medicine Line, Portraits of Aboriginal Life in the Canadian West &#8211; Rodger D. Touchie, Heritage House Publishing, 2010, 191 pgs. The first time I heard the name Edward S. Curtis was in a library.  Somehow in a book somewhere I read he was a great American photographer fixated with images of Indians.  Old chiefs.  Notable native historical figures and their contemporaries.  His powerful imagery sparked my imagination again recently when I was having breakfast at a restaurant in Toronto called Edward Levesque&#8217;s Kitchen.    The walls there are decorated with magnificent sepia toned portraits from the Curtis catalogue.   Craggy Cherokee faces.  The chiselled cheeks of the Hopi.  The  famous and the much less so.  They are remarkable photographs.  The subjects appear to look back at the camera as though the lens itself is a person, not a piece of glass. So when I saw a book called &#8220;Edward S. Curtis: Above the Medicine Line, Portraits of Aboriginal Life in the Canadian West&#8220;, I opened it looking for remarkable photographs and some greater understanding of who this man was and who the people he photographed were.    It has the photographs.  From Piegan chief  White Buffalo-Calf, 1899, to Nez Perce chief Joseph and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Must juries look like their communities? You be the judge</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/you-be-the-judge</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/penny-cadraine/issues-and-politics/you-be-the-judge#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[murder trials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How well do you know the guy next door? Do you understand why he&#8217;s always up at night — sometimes all night — yelling and shouting? Is it a fight between brothers, or husband and wife, or father and son?  Do you know if they&#8217;re simply arguing about what music they plan to play &#8217;til the dawn breaks? Maybe you&#8217;re the good natured type and you put a pillow over your head and let it go because you were young once too. Or, maybe you slap on your yodelling CD and let that run at full volume in retaliation. Say you start work at 5 in the morning and you can&#8217;t take it anymore and you&#8217;re ready to rip their door off the hinges to end the shouting. And if you do rip the door off the hinges, are you justified?  Or just deranged? Could be that you know there&#8217;s been a problem next door. A fight over custody. Money trouble. Betrayal. Maybe it&#8217;s dementia. Bipolar disorder. A bad reaction to meds that generates unnatural aggression. How well do you know the guy next door and do you have the right to judge what he&#8217;s done and for what reasons? And right now, just who has the right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cupid and the crooked flight-path of arrows in pop culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ARTS+CULTURE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This being exactly mid-February in our commercialized world, I&#8217;ve been spotting a lot of those fat cherubs flyin&#8217; around with bows and arrows of late. It got me wondering about that baby/weapon combo which, you have to admit, is not exactly normal. Give that baby a few years of hanging on to that bow and arrow and what you get — probably because of Hollywood — is the stuff that makes many a man and woman, well, quiver, not to mention prompt law enforcement officials into action. For, Cupid aside, the only time most of us think of bow-and-arrows these days is in connection with old movies featuring Cowboys-and-Indians or the Crusades. Think of those old mesh costumes and funny helmets with a guy firing off arrows atop castle walls. Maybe all those circle-the-wagon movies led you to believe that Indians routinely plucked their killer arrows from a pouch on their back, then deftly fired their stone-tips into the throats of pipe-whistling, patriotic soldiers marching into the line of fire. (Which, incidentally, isn&#8217;t quite true, since those battles usually had locals armed with axes or guns. And shooting arrows from horseback is no mean feat; even tougher now that most of us are urbanised.) Yup, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Revolutions: Two cases of financial justice for Aboriginal peoples</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Cadrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elouise Cobell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[2011 is just a month old and already the world is a changed place. I refer to dramatic developments in two stories I looked at last year: the fight of Elouise Cobell, and the financial mismanagement trial of 5 men on the Grizzly Bear Head Mosquito First Nation. Cobell, you&#8217;ll recall, is the Blackfeet warrior who pushed for 15 years to resolve the small matter of how her people got rooked out of billions of dollars earned from resources on their own lands. Turns out, despite my moaning about how slow victory comes to those who wait rather than force it, Cobell won: &#8220;Current estimates project that most Class Members will receive about $1,800, with some Class Members receiving much more depending on the level of activity in their [Individual Indian Money] accounts.&#8221; Of course, the sum awarded is ridiculously inadequate recompense for the damage done — the lost faith, not to mention the lost interest on the claims over time.  But, by some measure, it symbolizes the ultimate victory of forcing your opponent to admit a wrong was committed.  And, as anyone who&#8217;s tried to win such an admission can attest, you just can&#8217;t put a dollar figure on that. The [...]]]></description>
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