Monday, October 17, 2011

Cobell, plaintiff in $3.4 billion lawsuit, dies (AP)

HELENA, Mont. ? A spokesman for Elouise Cobell says the Blackfeet woman who led a 15-year fight to force the U.S. government to account for more than a century of mismanaged Indian land royalties has died. She was 65.

Spokesman Bill McAllister says Cobell died Sunday at a Great Falls hospital of complications from cancer.

Cobell was the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit filed in 1996 claiming the Interior Department owed billions of dollars to as many as 500,000 Native Americans with land trust accounts.

A $3.4 billion settlement was approved by a judge earlier this year.

Cobell said in a 2010 interview that she hoped she would inspire a new generation of Native Americans to fight for the rights of others and lift their community out of poverty.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111017/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_cobell

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