Indian Trust Case: Cobell v. Kempthorne

Article image Many Indian Beneficiaries Would Lose Rights Under Interior Plan
WASHINGTON, May 15

Lawyers in a major class action lawsuit are opposing an Interior Department plan which they say will deprive the "vast majority" of an estimated 500,000 Native Americans whose families have had government-managed trust accounts from receiving a court-ordered accounting of what happened to their funds.
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