The federal government will pay $554 million to the Navajo Nation to resolve claims over the failure to manage and invest funds held in trust for the tribe. BuckleySandler, which represented the Navajo Nation, said the deal was the largest ever between the government and a single Native American tribe.

Top Obama administration officials publicly announced the settlement, reached this summer, at an event on Friday in Window Rock, Ariz.

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