Elouise Cobell, American Indian who championed class-action lawsuit against U.S. government, dies at 65

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Elouise Cobell, a Blackfeet tribal member who led a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 500,000 Indians against the Interior Department that yielded one of history's largest government settlements — a payout worth $3.4 billion — died late Sunday at a hospital in Great Falls, Mont. She was 65 and had been diagnosed with cancer.

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Juliet Eilperin 17 Oct, 2011


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