Bonnie Hohman and Marian Campbell Hohman v. Acting Rocky Mountain Regional Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 52 IBIA 245 (2010)

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Bonnie Hohman and Marian Campbell Hohman v. Acting Rocky Mountain Regional Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 52 IBIA 245 (2010)

INTERIOR BOARD OF INDIAN APPEALS Bonnie Hohman and Marian Campbell Hohman v. Acting Rocky Mountain Regional Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs 52 IBIA 245 (11/19/2010)

United States Department of the Interior

OFFICE OF HEARINGS AND APPEALS INTERIOR BOARD OF INDIAN APPEALS 801 NORTH QUINCY STREET SUITE 300 ARLINGTON, VA 22203

BONNIE HOHMAN AND MARIAN CAMPBELL HOHMAN, Appellants,

v. ) ) ACTING ROCKY MOUNTAIN ) REGIONAL DIRECTOR, BUREAU ) OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, ) Appellee. )

Order Affirming Decision

Docket No. IBIA 09-044

November 19, 2010

Bonnie Hohman and Marian Campbell Hohman (Appellants) appealed to the Board of Indian Appeals (Board) from a December 24, 2008, decision (Decision) of the Acting Rocky Mountain Regional Director (Regional Director), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The Decision addressed the distribution of trust funds from a settlement and judgment awarded to Vida Ione Campbell Waarvick Hughes (Decedent) during her lifetime as a member of a litigation class, but which were allocated and deposited into an Individual Indian Money (IIM) account for Decedent after her death. The judgment funds were distributed by the Office of the Special Trustee (OST) to James Richard Wiegand, the devisee named in the residuary clause in Decedent’s will.1 The Regional Director concluded that OST’s distribution of the funds was correct. Appellants, who received interests in Indian trust allotments from Decedent under her will, disagree with the Decision and contend that the final probate order issued by an administrative ...

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