2009 - Lead plaintiff in the groundbreaking class-action suit Cobell v. Salazar.

* Yellow Bird Woman Cobell was lead plaintiff in groundbreaking class-action suit challenging the United States' mismanagement of trust funds belonging to more than 500,000 individual Native Americans. * suit challenged the government to account for fees from resource leases. A $3.4 billion settlement for the trust case to partially compensate individual account holders, buy back fractionated land interests, and restore land to reservations. * provided for a $60 million scholarship fund for Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, named the Cobell Education Scholarship Fund. * largest settlement ever in a class action against the federal government.

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Native American Blackfoot

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