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Yurok
Tribe members get their shares of settlement
By Nicholas Grube
Triplicate staff writer
Members of the Yurok
Tribe are starting to receive their share of a $92.6 million dollar
settlement.
On Jan. 15, checks for
nearly $15,500 were mailed to members who are 21 or older as a result of
their decision to keep a majority of the money from the Hoopa-Yurok
Settlement Fund.
The money comes from
timber revenues generated on the Yurok Tribe reservation and from other
monies delegated to the fund by Congress. The $92.6 million was released
to the tribe in March as part of an agreement the tribe made to waive
any claims against the
In December 2007, members
of the Yurok Tribe voted overwhelmingly to keep 90 percent of the $92.6
million for themselves and give 10 percent, or about $8.8 million, to
the tribal government to provide money for in-home services for elders,
education, rights protection and funerals. During that election, tribal
members also chose to distribute the money when members turned 21 years
old.
The Yurok Tribe, with
more than 5,200 members is
Reach Nicholas Grube at ngrube@triplicate.com.
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Source: http://www.triplicate.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=7362