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Indian Settlement Is Proposed
The federal government has proposed paying $7 billion to settle suits over American Indian trust lands, but the offer met with objections from Indian plaintiffs. At issue is a lawsuit filed in 1996 by Elouise Cobell, a Blackfoot Indian, saying the government had mismanaged more than $100 billion in oil, gas, timber and other royalties held in trust dating from 1887. Interior Secretary Dirk ...
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