Elouise Cobell
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Women's Issues
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Supreme Court, U.S., Civil Rights, Minority Rights
- Curriculum: American Indian History, Women's history
Article abstract: The founder of the first Native American-owned bank in the United States, Elouise Cobell has won a national reputation as the initiator of a class-action suit seeking an accounting from the federal government of the vast sums of money held in trust on behalf of Native Americans.
Elouise Cobell has spent most of her life on the Blackfeet Reservation of Montana, where she was born. She was one of eight children in a household with no electricity or running water, and a form of family entertainment was reciting oral histories. The stories that she...
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