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Introduction:

These articles were written for the four reservations that were part of a Community Outreach Project by the Risk Management Agency of USDA & MSU Extension. You will need to add your tribal information and regional addresses specific to your reservation.

Media Articles:

1. What is AIPRA and how does it affect you?
   
   
2. Fractionation:  Inheriting undivided interests
   
   
3. How reservation land is owned by individuals
   
   
4. How to read your Individual Trust Interest (ITI) report
   
   
5. Who is eligible to inherit your trust lands and retain trust status?
   
   
6. How is your undivided interest of 5 percent or more distributed if you pass away without writing a will?
   
   
7. How is your undivided interest of less than 5 percent are distributed if you pass away without writing a will?
   
   
8. What is a life estate?
   
   
9. Writing a will
   
   
10. Purchase options at probate
    
    
11. Partitioning an allotment
    
    
12. Ways to avoid further fractionation of reservation land
    
    
13. Your Individual Indian Money (IIM) account:  What happens to your money if you pass away without writing a will?
    
    

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