A U.S. judge has approved a settlement, nearly 1 billion dollars. The money will be for all the American Tribes. The lengthy case has finally been settled. The higher courts sided with the tribes and then sent it down to the lower courts. The U.S. and the tribes were having a dispute. So, the U.S. and Native American tribes went to court to settle the dispute. The ruling was decided in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The tribes wanted money from the Americans because the Americans shorted tribes for decades. The U.S. judge thought that the Americans shorted the tribes.
