George GROUNDHOG et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
W. W. KEELER et al., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 5, 1971.
May 5, 1971.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Stuart Trapp, Tahlequah, Okl., for plaintiffs-appellants.
Andrew C. Wilcoxen, Muskogee, Okl., and Earl Boyd Pierce, Ft. Gibson, Okl., for defendants-appellees W. W. Keeler, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Okl., and The Members of the Cherokee Executive Committee.
Dirk D. Snell, Atty., Dept. of Justice, (Shiro Kashiva, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Nathan G. Graham, U. S. Atty., Robert P. Santee, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Edmund B. Clark, Atty., Dept. of Justice, were with him on the brief), for Federal defendants-appellees.
Before LEWIS, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and JOHNSEN, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.
This is a declaratory judgment action brought by Groundhog, Blair, Guess, Tanner and Proctor,1 descendants of enrolled citizens of the Cherokee Nation, against Keeler, who now holds, and since 1949 has held, the office of Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Walter J. Hickel, as United States Secretary of the Interior, Virgil Harrington, Area Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Muskogee Area, and...
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