Officials mourn Elouise Cobell’s death

By Independent staff

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Elouise Cobell, who tenaciously pursued a lawsuit that accused the federal government of cheating Native Americans out of more than a century’s worth of mineral rights royalties, resulting in a record $3.4 billion settlement, has died. She was 65.

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