American Indians grapple with land divided by history

By Ellen Wulfhorst PRYOR, Montana (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Irma Bird Hat, a member of the Crow Indian tribe, started digging out the documents she needed to write her will, the retired health worker discovered property she didn't know she owned. The division and array of property among Native Americans such as the Crow, who live on a reservation in southeastern Montana, is an ownership tangle. More than two dozen students, professors and advisors from the University of Denver's Sturm