On May 1 the site of the Wounded Knee massacre was put on the open market by owner James Czywczynski with a price tag of $4.9 million...
Rob Capriccioso
May 23, 2012
WASHINGTON – Four Indian appeals of the $3.4 billion Cobell settlement have failed to pass muster with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Barack Obama, President of the United States of America
October 27, 2011
With the passing of Elouise Cobell , a proud member of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana, we have lost a champion of Native American rights...
The honorable Nick J. Rahall, III of West Virginia will take to the floor of the House of Representatives today and deliver a speech in honor of the passing of Elouise Cobell...
Rob Capriccioso
October 21, 2011
Melinda Janko, a filmmaker with Fire in the Belly Productions, has been following Elouise Cobell around the country for years, documenting the latest developments in a legal saga t...
Harold A. Monteau

Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s recent safari to New Mexico to meet the Pueblo people and to make a guest appearance at a student forum at the University of New Mexico School of Law, had all the indicia of an apologist diplomatic mission (although she has nothing for which to apologize.) Without ever m...

October 03, 2011
In the end, the long-running Cobell case was settled in less than a day...
WASHINGTON – After years of intense legal arguments, it took a federal judge less than a day to affirm that a settlement to a case involving the federal government’s mismanagement ...
Jerilyn DeCoteau

Ten Cent Treaty, Le Pay, allotments in Montana, lease checks the neighbors received, Grandpa saying, "I am still waiting for my allotment." These are words I grew up with....

June 04, 2011
Elouise Cobell Elouise Cobell, a member of the Blackfeet Nation and the lead plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit Cobell v. Salazar , is recovering from cancer surgery...

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