This video was posted in late 2006 and chronicles a long-standing issue. A lawsuit was filed in June, 1996.

Finally, on August 8, 2008 a federal judge rendered a decision:

"A federal judge ruled yesterday that the government owes Native American plaintiffs $455 million for mismanaging and withholding mineral royalties, grazing fees, and other revenues overseen by the Department of Interior. The ruling was a setback for the plaintiffs, who were seeking $47 billion in a case that has dragged on for twelve long years.

"In fact, the name of the case has changed through the years with each new Secretary of the Interior. When plaintiff Elouise Cobell, a Blackfoot Indian, filed the case in June 1996 as a class action on behalf of herself and half a million other Native Americans, it was Cobell v. Babbitt. By the time of the ruling of U.S. District Judge James Robertson yesterday, it was Cobell v. Kempthorne.

"The legal saga has been nearly as astonishing as the story of government incompetence . . . ."

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