The Indian Claims Commission failed even to notify all eligible Tribes of their rights.

Evidence

Another failing of the commission was that it did not notify all eligible Tribes about their right to submit a claim and the process for submitting one. In accordance with the law, the commission was required to send out a written explanation to the “recognized heads of every Indian tribe and band or to any other identifiable group of Indians existing as ‘distinct entities.’ ” Only Tribal Nations, not individuals, were allowed to present claims to the commission, and they were initially given a five-year period in which to do so. The act provided for several types of claims to be heard, but “the vast majority of claims processed were claims for compensation related to land.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 157

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s broader theme of remedy-design failures and procedural gatekeeping of who may access reparations; resonates with the reader’s project of defending reparations argumentation. — connects to: The commission failed to notify eligible Tribes of claim rights.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The commission failed to notify eligible Tribes of claim rights.

Broader Connections

• The commission failed to notify eligible Tribes of claim rights. #expands (1.00)