Biography

Elouise Cobell was born on November 5, 1945 in Browning, Montana, USA. She is known for War Party (1988) and 60 Minutes (1968). She was married to Alvin Cobell. She died on October 16, 2011 in Great Falls, Montana, USA.

She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Barack Obama, in a live televised ceremony held in the East Room of the White House, on November 22, 2016, along with twenty other recipients, the the largest, and final Medal of Freedom ceremony of Obama's presidency. At this ceremony, the twenty-one recipients, in alphabetical order, included: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Elouise Cobell (posthumous award given to her son), Ellen DeGeneres, Robert De Niro, Richard Garwin, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Frank Gehry, Margaret Hamilton (as Margaret H. Hamilton), Tom Hanks, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (posthumous award given to her niece), Michael Jordan, Maya Lin, Lorne Michaels, Newton Minow, Eduardo Padron (as Eduardo Padrón), Robert Redford, Diana Ross, Vin Scully, Bruce Springsteen, and Cicely Tyson.

Treasurer of the Blackfeet tribe who pursued a lawsuit that accused the federal government of cheating Native Americans out of more than a century's worth of royalties, resulting in a $3.5-billion settlement.