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

Appeal No. 9-65.

383 F.2d 991 (1967)

The SAC AND FOX TRIBE OF INDIANS OF OKLAHOMA et al., the Iowa Tribe of the Iowa Reservation in Kansas and Nebraska, the Iowa Tribe of the Iowa Reservation in Oklahoma et al. v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

Decided March 17, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George B. Pletsch, Chicago, Ill., attorney of record for the Sac and Fox Tribes, appellants. Schiff, Hardin, Waite, Dorschel & Britton, Stanford Clinton, Lawrence C. Mills & Garrett, Chicago, Ill., and Louis L. Rochmes, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Nicholas Conover English, Newark, N. J., attorney of record for the Iowa Tribes, appellants. Brian Sullivan, Dykema, Wheat, Spencer, Goodnow, & Trigg, Detroit, Mich., McCarter & English, Newark, N. J., and Louis L. Rochmes, 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, LARAMORE, DURFEE, DAVIS, COLLINS, SKELTON, and NICHOLS, Judges.


OPINION

SKELTON, Judge.

The appellants, the Iowa Tribe of the Iowa Reservation in Kansas and Nebraska, and the Iowa Tribe of the Iowa Reservation in Oklahoma (hereinafter called the "Iowa"), are the sole successors in interest to the Iowa Nation of Indians and bring this suit on behalf of said nation and all its members.

The appellants, the Sac and Fox Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, the Sac and Fox Tribe of Missouri, and the Sac and Fox Tribe of the...

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