For the first time in history, individual Indian landowners will be informed of their rights as trust beneficiaries and class members before the sale of their land; Court rules that each beneficiary who decides to sell trusts assets has an absolute right Elouise Cobell, lead plaintiff for more than 500,000 individual Indian landowners who are plaintiffs in the case, said: “For more than a century, the U.S. government has sold our land out from under us—without consent, without appraisal and without informing us of our rights as trust beneficiaries. That ends today.”
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