Land Grab Cheats North Dakota Tribes Out of $1 Billion, Suits Allege
Fort Berthold in North Dakota (Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica)
Native Americans on an oil-rich North Dakota reservation have been cheated out of more than $1 billion by schemes to buy drilling rights for lowball prices, a flurry of recent lawsuits assert. And, the suits claim, the federal government facilitated the alleged swindle by failing in its legal obligation to ensure the tribes got a fair deal.
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