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Elouise Cobell

Lead plaintiff in Cobell v. Babbitt, the class action over Indian trust accounts.

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Federal funding and trust accounts for Native Americans, 2009 to 2018 8 Dec 2010 the settlement of her class action carries her name Primary record 1

Federal funding and trust accounts for Native Americans, 2009 to 2018 lead plaintiff; sued the Interior Department in 1996 Scholarship & press 2

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Salazar: Settlement agreements first Americans mark historic progress, U.S. Department of the Interior, 8 Dec 2010. Primary record
The Claims Resolution Act of 2010 signed into law today includes the $3.4 billion Cobell settlement
The chronology of the Cobell decade, ICT News. Scholarship & press
Lead plaintiff Elouise Cobell files a suit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., against the Department of the Interior (Cobell v. Babbitt) seeking reform of the Individual Indian Money trust system and accounting for 500,000 accounts over 119 years

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