 Elouise P. Cobell

Elouise Pepion Cobell, also known as Yellow Bird Woman (November 5, 1945 – October 16, 2011) ("Niitsítapi" Blackfoot Confederacy) was a tribal elder and activist, banker, rancher, and lead plaintiff in the groundbreaking class-action suit "Cobell v. Salazar" (2009).This challenged the United States' mismanagement of trust funds belonging to more than 500,000 individual Native Americans.