Hearing to decide what to do with $380 million in Native American USDA settlement

FARGO -- A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has set a June 29 hearing to consider what to do with $380 million in unclaimed funds generated in a discrimination case against the U.S. Department of Agriculture by Native Americans.

U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan has asked members of the class action suit and heirs to submit comments by June 15.

The Native Americans in October 2010 settled a class action lawsuit called Keepseagle v. Vilsack, named for Marilyn Keepseagle of the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. Other plaintiffs were Claryca Mandan, Mandaree, N.D., of the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, and Porter Holder of Soper, Okla.

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