The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.171

The Sampsel Report threw out 17,000 Indian claims to 10,000,000 acres of pre-1966 claims restoring Indian trust titles, and kept only 50% of the Old Age Assistance Claims and the Interior Dept. is still unaware of the scope and number of Old Age Assistance claims nationwide.  If anyone has been guilty of foot-dragging in pursuing this matter, it has been President Reagan and Interior Secretary James Watt.

The fact is that the overwhelming majority of the remaining Indians/heirs do not have the personal financial resources to identify, research, and prosecute the claims in their own behalf and the federal trustee Bureau of Indian Affairs knows it.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is the federal agency trustee complicit in the robbing of the Indian allotments in criminal racketeering that has gone on for over a century now, with no end in sight for the aggrieved Indians. A century of Indian economic exploitation was swept under waves of mindless, racist rhetoric generated by President Reagan’s slick ad campaign blaming the “backward” Indian crime victims for the Indian ills of tribal poverty and high unemployment on the reservation.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.171