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Eloise Cobell, the treasurer for the Blackfoot nation in Montana, brought a suit against the United States government

asking for $27.5 billion worth of reparations for Native American tribes. In 2009, the Eloise Cobell case against the
United States government settled for $2 billion. What wrongdoing was the United States government accused of in
the Eloise Cobell case?
A. burning sacred forests for timber wood
B. mismanaging tribal lands by selling land to rival tribes
C. improperly funding Individual Indian Money Accounts (IIMs)
D stealing groundwater from the tribes to provide water for nearby cities
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User Renel
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Answer:

my answer is d

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Improperly funding Individual Indian Money account (IIMs) is the wrongdoing was the United States government accused of in the Eloise Cobell case

Option C

Step-by-step explanation:

In 1996, Elousie cobell and other Native Americans brought a lawsuit against United State Government for Improper funding of Indian trust accounts. The prosecutor said that the two did departments, against which she made lawsuit, did not funded correctly to the Indian accounts as per the income and it kept those funds in the trust of their own Native Americans.

Later in 2009, the US government settled 3.4 billions dollars for that case which was divided into two shares. one 1.4 billions dollars for the claimers and 2 billion dollars as a compensation.

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