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Trust Services provides local assistance to the Muckleshoot IndianTribe and Muckleshoot Tribal members with all Bureau of Indian Affairs(BIA) and Bureau of Trust Funds Administration (BTFA) realty functions that pertain to land within the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation. Trust Services maintains the authoritative dataset of all landholdings held by the Tribe and Muckleshoot Tribal Members. Trust Services holds federal access permissions to the BIA Trust Asset Accounting Management System for land records officially held by the BIA.
Trust Services provides local assistance to the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Tribal members, and trust landowners on issues that arise with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) or the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration (BTFA). Trust Services includes:
Trust Services assists with obtaining leases on trust land, including surveys, environmental documents, appraisals, landowner consent, execution of leases, and BIA approval.
Trust Services will assist in the obtainment of a right-of-way or a service line agreement to extend roadways and utilities to trust property.
Trust Services helps landowners in conveying gifts of their interest in trust property.
Trust Services helps landowners sell their Indian trust land. This includes working in the landowner's best interest on the sale and having the sale approved by the BIA.
Trust Services assists with the transfer of land title from an individual Muckleshoot Tribal Member or the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe to the United States, in trust, for the benefit of that individual Indian or Tribe.
Trust Services will help family members with filing for or locating the BIA Indian Probate of a loved one's estate. In addition, Trust Services will assist the heirs or beneficiaries with Washington State probate filings.
Trust Services assists Tribal members with estate planning process by obtaining Indian land inventories and providing will drafting services through an outside attorney.
Trust Services procures fee simple property at the direction of the Tribal Council for the purpose of reducing checker boarding within the reservation boundary and to promote Tribal sovereignty.
Read about this program's achievements in the most recent Muckleshoot Annual Report.