UNITED STATES v. KIOWA, COMANCHE AND APACHE TRIBES

Appeal No. 12-71.

479 F.2d 1369 (1973)

The UNITED STATES of America v. The KIOWA, COMANCHE AND APACHE TRIBES OF INDIANS, The Wichita Indian Tribe of Oklahoma and Affiliated Bands et al., Intervenors.

United States Court of Claims.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing September 28, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

J. Roy Thompson, Jr., Washington, D. C., attorney of record for The Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Tribes of Indians, appellees.

Omer Luellen, Hinton, Okl., attorney of record for The Wichita Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, etc., intervenor. Paul M. Niebell, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before COWEN, Chief Judge, DURFEE, Senior Judge, and DAVIS, SKELTON, NICHOLS, KUNZIG, and BENNETT, Judges.


ON APPEAL FROM THE INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION

NICHOLS, Judge.

This case is before the court on appeal from the Indian Claims Commission (Commission) decision in its Docket No. 257. The Appellees', Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Tribes filed a claim with the Commission in 1951 in which they claimed aboriginal title to areas of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas, and recognized title to the lands set out as Tracts 511 and 510 on Plate CLXIV, Texas...

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