Well the Obama Administration has made an offer which looks positioned to settle Infamous Cobell Lawsuit.  More Info (HERE).

Of the most important information to me are the proposed changes in the Trust Administration processes.  The paternal government policy which simply says we must care for you because you can not care for yourself.  How about a plan to begin moving all of these contracts, agreements, funds, and resources back to their owners.

Now, don’t take this suggestion as a position to abandon tribes with a mountain of paperwork, outstanding notes payable, and unrealistic return of allocations from the Federal Bureaucracy.

Take this comment as an indication that many intelligent and professional NDNs are available to preform all of the necessary duties to administer there accounts.  Likewise, the accounts belong to individuals, maybe each of those individuals want to manage their own account.  They can buy a ShareBuilder, or eTrade account and manage their money, but the federal government says–implicitly and explicitly–by this policy the same individual is incapable of managing their funds.  

Now, I will be the first to say, that a fast dumping of this responsibility by the federal government will BRING the vultures to NDN country trying to pull a fast profit VIA a unfair trade.  These people are everywhere, doing the same to NDN country and all Americans given an opportunity to do so.  Much research about this is done by First Nations Development Institute  Although, this alone does not make the Feds a better keeper of NDN assets.

Just some food for thought about Trust Responsibility.