News: When banker Elouise Cobell added up the Indian trust money lost, looted,
and mismanaged by the U.S. government, the tab came to $176 billion.
Now she's here to collect.
By Julia Whitty
Photos by: Karen Kuehn,
Map by Dave Stevenson
September/October 2005 Issue
ALONG HIGHWAY 89, south of the Two Medicine River on the slope of Glacier National Park, at a place Elouise Pepion Cobell passes every day on her way from her ranch to her office in Browning, stands a historical marker erected by the state of Montana:
OLD AGENCY: The Starvation Winter of 1883-1884 took the lives of about 500 Blackfeet Indians who had been camping in the vicinity of Old Agency. This tragic event was the result of an inadequate supply of government rations during an exceptionally hard winter.
The story of that winter that came down
The story of that winter that came down
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