PEORIA TRIBE OF INDIANS OF OKLAHOMA v. UNITED STATES

No. 8-65.

369 F.2d 1001 (1966)

The PEORIA TRIBE OF INDIANS OF OKLAHOMA et al. v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

December 16, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Joseph, attorney of record, for appellants, Louis L. Rochmes, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Craig A. Decker, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., for appellee, Ralph A. Barney, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before COWEN, Chief Judge, and LARAMORE, DURFEE, DAVIS and COLLINS, Judges.


OPINION

COWEN, Chief Judge.

The Peoria Tribe seeks review of two adverse portions of a decision of the Indian Claims Commission which was generally favorable to the tribe. Two separate issues are involved on the appeal. The first concerns the payment given the Indians in place of certain annuities which they relinquished in 1854. Before that year, the Weas and the Piankeshaws were the beneficiaries of permanent annuities coming to $3,800 per year. By the...

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