Elousie Cobell: Native American Activist and Banker

Monday, 12 December 2016 - 8:30am to 9:00am

Elousie Cobell was a Native American tribal elder, activist and banker. While treasurer of the Blackfeet tribe in Montana, in the United States, she showed up many financial irregularities and deep mismanagement in trust funds held by the US government. This week’s show is about her case action lawsuit  which started in 1996, settling in 2010, where Cobell recovered royalties for 500,000 individual Native Americans in a settlement worth $3.4 billion dollars.

Corbell died in 2011. Last month, November 2016, Cobell's work on behalf of Native Americans was honored by the award of a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama

This inspiring talk by Elousie Cobell dates from 2005, when she spoke at the National Network of Grantmakers. 

Thank you to Lisa Rudman of Making Contact Women's Desk for the recording, and to Frieda Werden at WINGS and the Community Radio Exchange, Canada.



Monday 8:30am to 9:00am
A national feminist current affairs program for community radio. A gender analysis of contemporary issues, as well as in-depth analysis by a range of women and gender diverse people around Australia and internationally. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network (CRN).

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Emma Hart, Kannagi Bhatt, Phuong Tran, Xen Nhà

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