MINNESOTA CHIPPEWA TRIBE v. UNITED STATES

No. 11-61.

315 F.2d 906 (1963)

MINNESOTA CHIPPEWA TRIBE et al. v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

April 5, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin J. Sonosky, Washington, D. C., for appellants. Jay H. Hoag, Duluth, Minn., and John S. White, Washington, D. C., were on the briefs.

Sim T. Carman, Alexandria, Va., and Ralph A. Barney, Washington, D. C., with whom was Ramsey Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee. Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker, Washington, D. C., filed a brief amicus curiae, Angelo A. Iadarola, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and WHITAKER, LARAMORE, DURFEE and DAVIS, Judges.


DAVIS, Judge.

We are called upon in this interlocutory appeal by the Indians1 to decide whether the Indian Claims Commission erred in lopping off two eastern and northern segments from a large area in Minnesota which it ruled was otherwise held by Indian title in 1855 when the United States acquired the region by cession. 8 Ind.Cl.Comm. 781, Docket 18-B (1960). Though evidently dissatisfied with...

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