Native American land activist, mine opponent dies in Nev.

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Carrie Dann, a Native American land rights activist, Nevada rancher and longtime leader of the WesternShoshone Nation, has died.Dann and her younger sister Mary Dann, who died in 2005, fought with the federal government for decades overownership of their ancestral lands in central Nevada.Born in Nevada's Crescent Valley in 1932, Carrie Dann co-founded the Western Shoshone Defense Project in1991.She died Saturday at home of natural causes with family members near, said Julie Cavanaugh-Bill, a friend andlawyer in Elko who worked with Dann on numerous defense project cases. She was believed to be between 86and 88 but didn't have a birth certificate, Cavanaugh-Bill said.