SNOQUALMIE TRIBE OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

No. 7-65.

372 F.2d 951 (1967)

The SNOQUALMIE TRIBE OF INDIANS, on its own Behalf, and on relation of the SKYKOMISH TRIBE OF INDIANS v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

February 17, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert E. Marks, Washington, D. C., for appellant, Donald C. Gormley, Washington, D. C., attorney of record. Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Walter J. Muir, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., for appellee.

Before COWEN, Chief Judge, JONES, Senior Judge, and LARAMORE, DAVIS, and COLLINS, Judges.


OPINION

LARAMORE, Judge.

In January 1951, the appellant Snoqualmie Tribe of Indians filed a timely petition with the Indian Claims Commission alleging that it was a party to the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855 and that under that Treaty it ceded to the United States for an unconscionable consideration a designated part of the total area described in the Treaty. Treaty with the Dwamish &c. Indians, January 22, 1855, ratified March 8, 1859, 12 Stat. 927...

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