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The Salazar Settlement

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First of all, I didn’t get involved with the Salazar Settlement immediately; the issue slowly reared its head during our discussions over the SRST Tribal Chairman’s firing of the tribe’s executive director. My side on this Termination controversy is that our tribe has sovereign immunity regarding its employment practices. If such wasn’t the case, there would be non-tribal members working for our tribe in the various offices. Our discussion quickly changed from this controversy to that involving the $48.9 million Salazar Settlement. At first I confused the Salazar Settlement with the Cobell Settlement. I never heard about the Salazar Settlement at all. At first, just prior to the actual disbursement of the Salazar Settlement to the SRST tribal council, there were many discussions I participated in where we were concerned whether tribal members living off the reservation would receive any of the Salazar Settlement. We did not receive any money yet, with promises still in the air. My p