# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elouise-p-cobell
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:54:28.403Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elouise-p-cobell"
name: "Elouise P. Cobell"
slug: "elouise-p-cobell"
description: "Elouise Pepion Cobell, also known as Yellow Bird Woman, 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. She pursued the suit from 1996, challenging the government to account for fees from resource leases."
tagline: "Tribal elder and activist, banker, rancher, and lead plaintiff in the groundbreaking class-action suit Cobell v. Salazar (2009)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-11-05"
deathDate: "2011-10-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.17
  momentum:             0.1851851851851852
  historical:           6.153133333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2017652/"
    handle:    "nm2017652"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elouise_Cobell"
    title: "Elouise Cobell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D9%89._%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "الويس پى. كوبيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elouise_Cobell"
    title: "Elouise Cobell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elouise_P._Cobell"
    title: "Elouise P. Cobell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elouise_P._Cobell"
    title: "Elouise P. Cobell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elouise_P._Cobell"
    title: "Elouise P. Cobell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elouise_Cobell"
    title: "Elouise Cobell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3051661"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump