AdvertisementNative Americans To Soon Receive Settlement ChecksNovember 29, 2012Charles Michael RayfacebookEmailElouise Cobell, a member of Montana's Blackfeet Tribe, and four other Native Americans led a class-action land use lawsuit against the U.S. government. Cobell is shown here in 2009 with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar after an announcement on the settlement of the lawsuit. Cobell died last year. (AP)