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Elouise P. Cobell
Blackfoot tribal elder, activist, banker, and rancher
Elouise Pepion Cobell, also known as Yellow Bird Woman (November 5, October 16, )[1] (NiitsítapiBlackfoot Confederacy), was a tribal elder and activist, banker, rancher, and lead plaintiff in the groundbreaking class-action suit Cobell v.
Salazar (). This challenged the United States' mismanagement of trust funds belonging to more than , individual Native Americans.[2] She pursued the suit from , challenging the government to account for fees from resource leases.
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In , the government approved a $ billion settlement for the trust case. Major portions of the settlement were to partially compensate individual account holders, and to buy back fractionated land interests, and restore land to reservations.
It also provided for a $60 million scholarship fund for Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, named the Cobell Education Scholarship Fund in her honor.[3] The settleme