Elouise Cobell, a lead plaintiff in a landmark class action in Washington who had long advocated for Indian trust reform, died late Sunday in Great Falls, Mont. A member of the Blackfeet Tribe, Cobell was 65. She died of complications from cancer.
Cobell was the name plaintiff in a suit filed in 1996 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that demanded the government perform an accounting of billions of dollars-flowing from oil and gas leases, among other sources-held in trust in individual Indian money accounts.
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