The federal government will pay the Navajo Nation $554 million to settle claims that it mismanaged funds and natural resources on the Navajo reservation, according to the Wall Street Journal's Dan Frosch. It's highest-ever such settlement in a case about land the federal government held in trust for an American Indian tribe, according to the WSJ. The Obama administration has paid out more than $1 billion "during the past several years to settle lawsuits filed by dozens of tribes who have made similar claims regarding the chronic mismanagement of trust land and resources by the federal government," the WSJ further reports.
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