STRONG v. UNITED STATES

Appeal No. 1-74.

518 F.2d 556 (1975)

James STRONG et al., Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. The UNITED STATES of America, Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Claims.

June 25, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Fitzharris, Escanaba, Mich., attorney of record, for James Strong, and others, as the representatives and on behalf of all members by blood of the Chippewa Tribe of Indians, for Robert Dominic, and others, on behalf of the Ottawa Tribe of Indians, for the Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, and others, appellants-cross-appellees.

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

Rodney J. Edwards, Duluth, Minn., attorney of record, for Red Lake Band, and others, for Lawrence Zane, and others, ex rel. Wyandot Tribe, and others, appellants-cross-appellees.

Robert S. Johnson, Topeka, Kan., attorney of record, for the Potawatomi Tribe of Indians, the Prairie Band of the Potawatomi Tribe of Indians, and others, appellants-cross-appellees.

David L. Kiley, Marion, Ind., attorney of record, for Ira Sylvester Godfroy, and others, ex rel. the Miami Indian Tribe, appellants-cross-appellees.

Paul G. Reilly, New York City, attorney of record, for the Six Nations, appellants-cross-appellees.

Louis L. Rochmes, Washington, D. C., attorney of record, for the Delaware Tribe of Indians, for the Absentee Delaware Tribe of Oklahoma, for the Citizen Band of Potawatomi Indians of Oklahoma, appellants-cross-appellees.

Edwin A. Rothschild, Chicago, Ill., attorney of record, for the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, appellants-cross-appellees.

Jack Joseph, Chicago, Ill., attorney of record, for the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and others, for the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, and others, appellants-cross-appellees.

Allan Hull, Cleveland, Ohio, attorney of record, for the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, the Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas, and others, and the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma, and others, appellants-cross-appellees.

Robert E. Fraley, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Wallace H. Johnson, for the United States, appellee-cross-appellant.

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


ON APPEALS FROM THE INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION

COWEN, Chief Judge:

This case is before the court on numerous appeals, as well as the Government's cross-appeal, from various portions of an interlocutory decision of the Indian Claims Commission dated August 9, 1973. The consolidated proceedings below involved the determination by the Commission of title claims by various tribal claimants to an area of land identified on Royce's Map of Ohio as Area 11 (hereinafter...

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