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WHITEFOOT v. UNITED STATES

No. 497-57.

293 F.2d 658 (1961)

Ambrose WHITEFOOT and Minnie Whitefoot v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

Rehearing Denied October 4, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick Paul, Seattle, Wash., C. Robert Mathis, Albert A. Grorud, Raymond C. Cushwa, Washington, D. C., and William L. Paul, Sr., Seattle, Wash., on the briefs, for plaintiffs.

Thos. L. McKevitt with whom was Perry W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

REED, Justice (Retired), sitting by designation.

This is a suit to recover compensation for the taking by destruction through inundation of certain fishing rights and other rights claimed as the individual property of plaintiffs in the Columbia River near Celilo Falls in the States of Washington and Oregon by the construction by the United States of The Dalles Dam, completed in 1956.

The plaintiffs are Indians enrolled in the Yakima Nation, a confederation...

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