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SIOUX TRIBE v. UNITED STATES

Appeal No. 13-72.

500 F.2d 458 (1974)

The SIOUX TRIBE et al. v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

July 19, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin J. Sonosky, Washington, D. C., attorney of record, for Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Santee Sioux Tribe.

Arthur Lazarus, Jr., Washington, D. C., attorney of record, for Pine Ridge Sioux Tribe.

William Howard Payne, Washington, D. C., attorney of record, for Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Sioux Tribe of the Fort Peck Reservation, Montana.

Angelo A. Iadarola, Washington, D. C., attorney of record, for Yankton Sioux Tribe. Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker and Frances L. Horn, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Craig A. Decker, Land & Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Wallace H. Johnson, for the United States.

Marvin J. Sonosky, Washington, D. C., attorney of record, for Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Sioux Indians, amicus curiae.

Before COWEN, Chief Judge, and DAVIS and SKELTON, Judges.

COWEN, Chief Judge:

The appeals and cross-appeals in this case require us to review eight interlocutory orders of the Indian Claims Commission. The appellants are eight groups of Sioux Indians. Their claims against the United States are filed under Docket No. 74 of the Indian Claims Commission and are based on certain wrongs alleged to have been committed by the United States against their ancestral tribes, i. e., the Teton Sioux Tribe, the Yanktonais Sioux Tribe...

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