Interior Department to spend $3 billion to settle royalty dispute with American Indian tribesThe Obama administration on Tuesday proposed spending more than $3 billion to settle claims dating back more than a century that American Indian tribes were swindled out of royalties for oil, gas, grazing and other leases. Under ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Tuesday it will pay $3.4 billion to settle a long-running lawsuit against the Interior Department for mismanaging the revenue in Native American trust funds. As part of the settlement, the government will pay $1.4 billion directly to members of Indian ...

Indian tribe sues Interior Dept., county to stop resort project on California ranchAn Indian tribe has filed a lawsuit to stop the development of a 5,000-acre gated resort community on a sprawling ranch some 60 miles north of Los Angeles that it claims as tribal land. The lawsuit filed ...