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Petition to President Clinton 
President@whitehouse.gov
Interior Secretary Babbitt 
exsec@ios.doi.gov
Your TO line: President@whitehouse.gov, exsec@ios.doi.gov
Copy to: whistler@imt.net

Subject: More Stealing From Indians

Petition:

A century ago the U.S.  Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) assumed the
involuntary trust care of the personal cash accounts of American Indians,
in a banking system known as IIM (the Individual Indian Money system.) This
system is a source of endless fraud and theft from Indians.  As a BIA
Auditor (CPA) in 1986, I first reported substantial fraud and missing
money, and was immediately fired by BIA as a whistleblower, a title I am
not ashamed to own.  Since then there have been countless studies and
audits, all agreeing with the basic facts and conclusion, that more or less
$2.4 billion dollars in Indian Trust accounts is missing or unaccounted
for.  A class action law suit has been filed against BIA in the name of
300,000 account holders by the Native American Rights Fund.  

An Associated Press article on 12/12/96 describes that a settlement in
compromise may be coming from BIA, not to exceed $600 million dollars.
Settlements generally require the recipient to sign a release, in this
situation it would release BIA from any additional liability for the "trust
care" due from collecting and holding these trust fund accounts.  

This would fully cover-up and whitewash the largest fraud in the history of
the United States, at the expense of our much abused and impoverished (for
obvious reasons) Native American citizens.  I demand that this continued
stealing from Indians must stop now and forever more!  

Our Constitution states that private property can not be taken without
"just compensation", and it is time to apply this protection equally to all
citizens, including Indians.  Any lesser treatment would continue the
institutional (BIA) racism that our Indian citizens have been subject to
since they were first "discovered" living in this land, as free, proud,
prosperous self governing nations.  

 To provide a just solution, a Court of Claims must be empowered
 to hear the claims of Indians against BIA for:
  1.)  Missing trust funds.
  2.)  Lands leased by BIA at less than market value.
  3.)  Oil, gas, coal and timber sold by BIA for less than market value.
  4.)  Indian land sales at less than market value.
  5.)  All similar financial frauds and abuses.
  6.)  Interest to date on these losses and thefts.

While you're at it, please restore this whistleblower to his BIA position
in accordance with our much abused whistleblower laws.  BIA simply can not
be reformed while honesty is suppressed and those who keep silent about
fraud remain as BIA officials!!

Signed: David L. Henry, aka Whistleblower, December 13, 1996
Address: Billings, Montana - Email: whistler@imt.net

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    President and Secretary of the Interior, and also send a copy to
    whistler@imt.net.  Thank you for caring about our brothers and
    sisters who are Indian!!  

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