SAC AND FOX TRIBE OF INDIANS OF OKLAHOMA v. UNITED STATES

No. 3-63.

340 F.2d 368 (1964)

The SAC AND FOX TRIBE OF INDIANS OF OKLAHOMA et al., Appellants, v. The UNITED STATES, Appellee.

United States Court of Claims.

October 16, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guenther M. Philipp, Chicago, Ill., for appellants. George B. Pletsch; Dallstream, Schiff, Hardin, Waite & Dorschel, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Walter J. Muir, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen., Ramsey Clark, for appellee.

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


DURFEE, Judge.

The Sac and Fox Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma appeal from a decision by the Indian Claims Commission1 that the price paid to them in 1891 by the United States for surplus unallotted reservation lands was not unconscionable.

In 1867 the appellants, by treaty,2 acquired a new Indian reservation situated in the Indian Territory near the center of the present State of Oklahoma, consisting...

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