| LC control no. | no2008181319 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cobell, Elouise |
| Variant(s) | Cobell, Elouise P. (Elouise Pepion) Pepion, Elouise Catherine Little Bird Woman |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1945-11-05 |
| Death date | 2011-10-16 |
| Place of birth | Montana |
| Place of death | Great Falls (Mont.) |
| Profession or occupation | Bankers |
| Found in | Indian Trust, Cobell v. Kempthorne t.p. (Elouise Cobell) LexisNexis Academic website 12/08/2008, (entry: Elouise P. Cobell, exec. dir., Blackfeet Reservation Devel. Fund, Inc., Mont.) Washington post WWW site, Oct. 17, 2011 (Elouise Cobell; b. Elouise Catherine Pepion, Nov. 5, 1945, on the Blackfeet Nation reservation in Montana; her Indian name was Little Bird Woman; d. Sunday [Oct. 16, 2011], Great Falls, Mont., at 65; led a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 500,000 Indians against the Interior Dept.) Sonneborn, Liz. A to Z of American Indian women, ©2007: pages 45-46 (Elouise Cobell; born on the Blackfoot Indian reservation in Montana in 1946. Attended Great Falls Community College and Montana State University. Moved to Seattle, Washington in 1968, then returned to the reservation with her husband and son in 1970. Became tribal treasurer and founded Blackfeet National Bank in 1987, now the Native American Bank. Heard about her tribe members' problems with their Individual Indian Money (IIM) accounts which were paid from the federal government from lands it held in trust. Sued the U.S. government Department of Interior for defrauding at last 500,000 Native Americans.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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