This case was a class-action lawsuit by Elouise Cobell and other Native Americans in 1996. They were against the Department of Interior and the Department of the Treasury for mismanagement of Indian trust funds. The plaintiffs claim that the government has wrongly accounted for the income made from Indian trust assets, which are owned by the Department of the Interior, but held in trust for Native Americans. This case can be known as the largest class-action lawsuit against the U.S. in history. The case continued until it was settled for $3.4 billion in 2009. Later, the Cobell Educational Scholarship Fund was made for Native American and Alaska Native students, to be funded from purchase of fractionated lands. By November 2016, $900 million
