This is a cruel effort to inflict even more pain on the victims of the government's long-acknowledged misbehavior. I have never seen a more blatant and transparent attempt to politicize this case in order to divide and conquer Indian country.

This is an old tactic Interior has used for years - try to divide and conquer. Congress should be very upset.

This is totally unreal. Sometimes I think the department's behavior has deteriorated to the bottom of the basement, and things like this happen, and I think it's gone to the fiery bowels of the earth.

The senator is from Montana, but has never taken an interest in it.

This young person was so ignorant to us, it was so bad. He told me, ?We ought to be charging you for the handling of this money.' I almost jumped across the table.

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life.