1996 onward
Land trust / redressBook sources
Cobell litigation over trust mismanagement
United States; individual Indian trust beneficiaries
Plaintiffs challenged federal accounting and management of trust assets. The eventual settlement provided compensation and other measures while leaving unresolved demands for a full accounting.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
Filing, settlement agreement, legislative approval and court approval occurred in different years.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 11