IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

ELOUISE PEPION COBELL, et al.,  )  
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Plaintiffs,  )  
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v.  )  Case No. 1:96cv01285(JR)  
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DIRK KEMPTHORNE, Secretary of the Interior,  )  
et al.,  )  
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Defendants.  )  

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NOTICE OF FILING OF MARCH 2008 STATUS REPORT BY THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFICE OF TRUST RECORDS 
The Department of the Interior Office of Trust Records hereby submits its status report 
for activity in March 2008. A copy of the report is attached hereto. 
Dated: April 15, 2008 Respectfully submitted, 
JEFFREY S. BUCHOLTZ Acting Assistant Attorney General MICHAEL F. HERTZ Deputy Assistant Attorney General 
J. CHRISTOPHER KOHN Director
 /s/ Robert E. Kirschman, Jr. ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, JR. Deputy Director 
(D.C. Bar No. 406635) JOHN R. KRESSE Trial Attorney Commercial Litigation Branch Civil Division 
P.O. Box 875, Ben Franklin Station Washington, D.C. 20044-0875 Telephone: (202) 616-0328 
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 
I hereby certify that, on April 15, 2008 the foregoing Notice of Filing of March 2008 Status Report by the Department of the Interior Office of Trust Records was served by Electronic Case Filing, and on the following who is not registered for Electronic Case Filing, by facsimile: 
Earl Old Person (Pro se) Blackfeet Tribe 
P.O. Box 850 Browning, MT 59417 Fax (406) 338-7530 
/s/ Kevin P. Kingston Kevin P. Kingston 
ACTIVITY REPORT 
OFFICE-OFTRUSTRE CORDS 
March 1 - 31, 2008 


PROGRAMMATIC: 
Labat-Anderson (Labat Indexing Project) 
Labat reported that indexing of 1,921 boxes of inactiv~ Indian records was completed in March 2008. Th~ total number of box~!completed through March 2008 is approximately 171,340. 
Movement of Records 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Office of the ~peeial Trustee (OST) 
moved 2,909~ boxes of inactive records from various field locations to Lenexa, Kansas, for indexing and subsequent storage at the At~erican Indian Records Repository (AIRR) during this reporting period. 
Site Assessments Statement 
DuaSng themonth of March, OTRA performed 3 records assessments at the following locations: Hopi Agency BIA office, Cherok’ee Agency OST IIM office, and Tulsa OST IIM office. OTRA also performed 10 follow-up records assessments at the following locations: WestemRegi0n BIA office; San Carlos Agency BIA office; San Carlos OST IIM office; Salt River Agency BIA office; Salt River OST I]2vl office; Pima Agency BIA office; Pima OST IIM office; Fort ApaeheAgencyBIA office; Fort Apache OST IIM oft~. ce; and OST Office of Appraisal Services; Western Region. OTRA issued 4 records assessment reports, one for eadh oflthe following locations: Fort Defiance!~Agency BLA office (followrup);. Hopi Agency BIA office; Tulsa OST IIM:,Office; and Cherokee OST 
IIM office. 

Records Training 
In March 2008, OTR provided records management tr~irtg for 46 BIAJOST records contacts and 49 tribal employees. OTR provided training on vital records for 25 BIA employees. 

Equipment 

30 pieces .of fireproof filing equipment were delivered .to BIA/OST and Tribal offices in March 2008. 
Litigation Support and Research Requests 
OTR continued to provide significant support to the Office of the Solicitor, Office of Historical Trust Accounting and its contractors, the Department of Justice and its contractors, and tribal attorneys on behalf of various Tribes. AIRR staff provided responses to 288 research requests from BIA, OST and other requesters. With the filing of numerous tribal trust litigation eases, litigation-related information and document requests pertaining to records at the AIRR continue to increase. Many of these requests have very short deadlines. 
ADMINISTRATIVE: General administrative activities continued. 
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS: None. 
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, information and belief, r express no opinion on the content of the Site Assessments Statement described above. ~ ~..~. ¯ 
Ethel J Abe~ta 

declare under penalty of perjury that flae content of the Site Assessments Statement deseribeA ,above is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, information and belief. express no opinion on the contents of other sectionrdsubsecfions of the rei~rt. 
Julene Theis Acting Director, Office of Trust Review mad -Audit