An Egregious Backlog: Interior Department Searches for Ways to Speed Up Native American Probate Court

OKLAHOMA WATCH: An egregious backlog: Interior Department searches for ways to speed up Native American Probate Court

A backlog in probate court at the Bureau of Indian Affairs has some Native Americans waiting months, years or generations for their cases to be decided.

OKLAHOMA WATCH: An Egregious backlog: Interior Department searches for ways to speed up Native American probate court

Oklahoma Watch - An egregious backlog: Interior department searches for ways to speed up Native American probate court

A backlog in probate court at the Bureau of Indian Affairs has some Native Americans waiting months, years or generations for their cases to be decided.

An Egregious Backlog: Interior Department Searches for Ways to Speed Up Native American Probate Court

A backlog in probate court at the Bureau of Indian Affairs has some Native Americans waiting months, years or generations for their cases to be decided.The Department of the Interior, which houses the bureau, is responsible for distributing the estates of tribal members who have trust assets after they die. The hearing and decision process for those estates regularly takes months, but if wills or heirs are contested or undecided before a tribal …

Interior Department Searches for Ways to Speed Up Native American Probate Court

A backlog in probate court at the Bureau of Indian Affairs has some Native Americans waiting months, years or generations for their cases to be decided. The post Interior Department Searches for Ways to Speed Up Native American Probate Court first appeared on The Journal Record.

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and How Attorneys Can Combat Bias | Illinois State Bar Association

In 1920s Oklahoma, Native Americans were treated as second class citizens. In the book and movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, we learn the true story about how members of the Osage Tribe were cheated out of their wealth and murdered for their oil rights. Don’t miss this interactive presentation in which our speaker, Philip Bogdanoff, uses film clips from the movie to discuss the various laws that discriminated against the Osage Tribe and how Wil…