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PILLAGER BANDS OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS, MINN. v. UNITED STATES

Appeal No. 5-69.

428 F.2d 1274 (1970)

The PILLAGER BANDS OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS IN the STATE OF MINNESOTA v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

July 15, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Bell, Jr., New York City, attorney of record, for appellants.

Craig A. Decker, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen., Shiro Kashiwa, for appellee.

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

ON APPEAL FROM THE INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION

DAVIS, Judge.

In the mid-1840's the United States embarked on a program of acquiring Indian lands in the Western Great Lakes region. During the next decade several treaties were made with different tribes which ceded their lands in return for varying considerations, including cash, goods, and resettlement on newly established reservations.1 Among the most desirable tracts was an area...

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