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TOPPENISH -- Yakama tribal members will have a chance to voice any concerns over trust issues such as federally managed Indian money and lands during a two-day listening conference beginning today.
The Intertribal Monitoring Association on Indian Trust Funds based in Albuquerque, N.M., and the Yakama Nation are hosting the conference at the Cultural Heritage Center behind the Yakama agency at 401 Fort Road.
The monitoring association began holding listening conferences in 2004, and is a federal entity responsible for assuring competent and efficient management of Indian trust assets.
The conference will run as a federal field hearing and begins at 9 a.m. today and ends at noon Thursday.
Some issues of concern include federally managed Indian trust funds and trust assets, including Individual Indian Money accounts, land leases, trespass on tribal land, probate and returning fee land back to tribal trust land.
Information gathered will be used to inform Congress and help develop policy reform.
Special Trustee for American Indians Ross O. Swimmer and his immediate and regional staff of the federal Office of Special Trustee will also attend.
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