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ALEUT COMMUNITY OF ST. PAUL ISLAND v. UNITED STATES

Appeal Nos. 11-72, 12-72.

480 F.2d 831 (1973)

ALEUT COMMUNITY OF ST. PAUL ISLAND, Appellant. v. The UNITED STATES, Appellee. The ALEUT TRIBE, By Iliodor MERCULIEFF, as Representative of the said Tribe and of all the Members Thereof; and the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Appellants, v. The UNITED STATES, Appellee.

United States Court of Claims.

Decided June 20, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen M. Truitt, Washington, D. C., for appellant; Donald H. Green, Washington, D. C., attorney of record for appellants; Wald, Harkrader & Ross, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Bernard M. Newburg, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Kent Frizzell, for appellee.

Before DAVIS, Acting Chief Judge, and SKELTON, NICHOLS, KUNZIG and BENNETT, Judges.

ON APPEAL FROM THE INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION

NICHOLS, Judge, delivered the opinion of the court:

Appellants Community and Tribe are groups of native Alaskans who traditionally sustained themselves by hunting and fishing on islands located in the Bering Sea which separates what is now the United States and the Soviet Union. Their primary source of food and clothing was the fish and seals which were abundant in the...

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