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POTTAWATOMIE NATION OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

Appeal No. 6-73.

507 F.2d 852 (1974)

The POTTAWATOMIE NATION OF INDIANS et al., Appellants, v. The UNITED STATES and Hannahville Indian Community et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Claims.

December 18, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Johnson, attorney of record, Topeka, Kan., for Pottawatomie Nation of Indians, and others, appellants.

Louis L. Rochmes, attorney of record, for Citizen Band of Potawatomi Indians of Oklahoma, and others. Jack Joseph, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for appellants.

Richard L. Beal, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Wallace H. Johnson, for the United States, appellee.

Robert C. Bell, Jr., attorney of record, New Canaan, Conn., for Hannahville Indian Community, and others, appellees.

Before COWEN, Chief Judge, and NICHOLS and BENNETT, Judges.

ON APPEAL FROM THE INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION

BENNETT, Judge:

The issue in this case, heard on appeal from orders of the Indian Claims Commission, is whether all Indians of the Pottawatomie tribe, or only certain groups thereof, should share in any award by the Commission of additional compensation for lands ceded by Pottawatomies under the treaty of October 20, 1832, 7 Stat. 378. Appellants would restrict the award to certain "bands"; appellees Hannahville...

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