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05/23/12 Blackfeet Nation Settlement Upheld Source: ABC - KFBB 5 - Great Falls MT Yesterday a panel of appellate judges upheld the ruling that orders the U.S. government to pay the tribe $3.4 billion for mismanagement of over 500,000 American Indian trust accounts.
05/23/12 $3.4B Native American class settlement upheld Source: Daily Report - Atlanta GA A historic $3.4 billion class action settlement over the mismanagement of government trust funds for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans survived a challenge in a federal appeals court in Washington.
05/23/12 $3.4 billion Native land royalty settlement upheld Source: Ravalli Republic - Hamilton MT A panel of appellate judges on Tuesday upheld a $3.4 billion settlement between the U.S. government and hundreds of thousands of Native American plaintiffs whose land trust royalties were mismanaged by the Interior Department.
04/16/12 Tribes, government agree to $1 billion settlement Source: Idaho Business Review - Boise ID The federal government will pay more than $1 billion to settle a series of lawsuits brought by American Indian tribes over mismanagement of tribal money and trust lands, under a settlement announced April 11.
04/13/12 Government pays $1billion compensation to Indian... Source: Daily Mail - London - UK The federal government is set to pay out more than $1billion to a number of American Indian tribes to settle disputes which have been ongoing for more than a century.

Background on elouise cobell

Elouise Pepion Cobell, Yellow Bird Woman (November 5, 1945 – October 16, 2011) was a Niitsítapi (Blackfoot Confederacy) elder and activist, banker, rancher, a Native American leader, and lead plaintiff in the groundbreaking litigation Cobell v.

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