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TEE-HIT-TON INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

No. 610-53.

132 F.Supp. 695 (1955)

The TEE-HIT-TON INDIANS, an Identifiable Group of Alaskan Indians, v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

July 12, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Craig Peacock, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff. Williams, Myers & Quiggle, Washington, D. C., William L. Paul, Jr., and Frederick Paul, Seattle, Wash., were on the brief.

Ralph A. Barney, Washington, D. C., with whom was Perry W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the defendant.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and LARAMORE, Judges.

MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiff's petition alleges that it is a clan or group of American Indians which has, from time immemorial used, occupied, and claimed a large area of land in Alaska, including some 350 square miles of water, the water area being all waters between Prince of Wales Island and Zarembo Island, and elsewhere the water extending a distance varying from two to five miles from the shore of their land; that certain named salmon fishing waters have been...

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