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WASHINGTON DC - Testimony will be held on Thursday before the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs called, "The American Indian Probate Reform Act: Empowering Indian Landowners."

The American Indian Probate Reform Act was passed into law by Congress in 2004 and signed by President George W. Bush in October, 2004. The law provides for a more clearer method to pass land ownership from one generation to the next - creating a uniform federal Indian probate code instead of the multiple individual state laws that governed Indian probate activity prior to the enactment of the Act.

TIME:     August 4

WHEN:     2:15 pm edt

WHERE:   Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 628
Washington DC

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Witnesses:

The Honorable John Berry, Chairman, Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, Quapaw, Oklahoma

Mr. Douglas Nash, Adjunct Professor, Institute for Indian Estate Planning and Probate, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington

The Honorable Scott Russell, Secretary, Crow Nation and Vice President, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, DC

Ms. Majel Russell, Esq., Attorney at Law, Elk River Law Office, P.L.L.P., Billings, Montana, on behalf of COLT (Coalition of Large Tribes)

Ms. Sharon Redthunder, Acting Director, Indian Lank Working Group, Elmer City, Washington

posted August 3, 2011 7:00 am edt