Elousie Cobell was a Native American tribal elder, activist and banker. While treasurer of the Blackfeet tribe in Montana, in the United States, she showed up many financial irregularities and deep mismanagement in trust funds held by the US government. This week’s show is about her case action lawsuit  which started in 1996, settling in 2010, where Cobell recovered royalties for 500,000 individual Native Americans in a settlement worth $3.4 billion dollars.

Corbell died in 2011. Last month, November 2016, Cobell's work on behalf of Native Americans was honored by the award of a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. 

This inspiring talk by Elousie Cobell dates from 2005, when she spoke at the National Network of Grantmakers. 

Thank you to Lisa Rudman of Making Contact Women's Desk for the recording, and to Frieda Werden at WINGS and the Community Radio Exchange, Canada.