Over 400,000 Native Americans received $1,000 checks in time for the holidays as a result of a settled $3.4 billion class action lawsuit.
“The suit, Cobell v. Salazar, was one of the largest class actions ever filed against the United States. It charged that as far back as the 1880s the government mismanaged money owed to Native Americans. These trust funds were collected from farming and grazing leases, timber sales, mining, and oil and gas production from land owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.”
