If there have ben, what was the most popular one and why did it fail?
Not to my knowledge. Some tribes are busily purchasing land, and some have had land restored by legal actions.
The Indian Land Claims Commission was set up by the US Government in 1946 to allow tribes to make claims for wrongly taken lands. (More info. These were heard through the mid-1970s and 176 tribes made 370 claims. The US made payments to successful claimants but did not restore land.
The recent Cobell v. Salazar was 1986 class act lawsuit with 500,000 of claimants. The lead plaintiff was the late Elouise P. Cobell, a Blackfeet rancher from Montana. By 2010, the government finally settled the case, awarding $3.4 billion to the plaintiffs, many of which, the government is still trying to locate.
The case involves government mismanagement of Indian lands. Lands in Indian Country (reservations, colonies, rancherias, etc.) were held by the tribe in common, until the Dawes Act, or "General Allotment Act", was passed in 1887. This act, designed break down tribes, divided the tribal lands into individual allotments. The so-called "surplus lands" were then opened to non-Native settlement ("land runs" and lotteries). Individuals with high blood quanta, such full-bloods and half-bloods, were declared incompetent and "wards of the state." In many instances, the US leased their lands to cattle ranchers or other non-Natives. Despite these leases being far below the worth of land, often pennies on the acres, the US regularly failed to pay the lease money to the fullblood landowners. Record keeping was abyssmal. But the interest even on pennies adds up over a century or so, so the descendants were able to recoup some of this money owned through Cobell.
Curious to know from the many downvoters, why are you downvoting this question?