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CENTRAL COUN. OF TLINGIT & H. IND. v. CHUGACH NATIVE ASS'N

No. 74-1453.

502 F.2d 1323 (1974)

CENTRAL COUNCIL OF the TLINGIT & HAIDA INDIANS OF ALASKA, and Sealaska Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CHUGACH NATIVE ASSOCIATION and Chugach Natives, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

September 5, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence T. Feeney (argued), Faulkner, Banfield, Doogan, Gross & Holmes, Juneau, Alaska, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Clark S. Gruening (argued), McCutcheon & Gruening, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendants-appellees.

Before KOELSCH, CARTER and CHOY, Circuit Judges.

CHOY, Circuit Judge:

This is a suit brought by the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indians and their regional corporation, Sealaska Corp., to compel arbitration of a boundary dispute with the Chugach Natives under § 7(a)1 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. The district court held the suit was barred by laches, and this appeal ensued. We reverse.

The Native Claims Act grants the Native peoples of Alaska...

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