CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES v. UNITED STATES

No. 50233.

401 F.2d 785 (1968)

The CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF the FLATHEAD RESERVATION, MONTANA v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

Certiorari Denied January 20, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Cragun, Washington, D. C., attorney of record, for plaintiff. Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker, and Richard A. Baenen, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

John D. Sullivan, Washington, D. C., with whom was Clyde O. Martz, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

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


Certiorari Denied January 20, 1969. See 89 S.Ct. 691.

DAVIS, Judge.

A claim which the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have pressed in this conglomerate suit (see, e. g., 181 Ct.Cl. 739, 741) is that the Government erroneously surveyed the boundaries of the reservation carved out for plaintiff by the Treaty of Hell Gate, 12 Stat. 975 (signed on July 16, 1855, proclaimed on April 18, 1859).1 In Confederated Salish and Kootenai...

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