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SAC AND FOX TRIBE OF INDIANS OF OKL. v. ANDRUS

No. 79-1866.

645 F.2d 858 (1981)

SAC AND FOX TRIBE OF INDIANS OF OKLAHOMA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Cecil D. ANDRUS, Secretary of the Interior of the United States, Defendant-Appellee, Angela Desiree Huffman, Alicia Carole Megehee, Sean Jerome Thornton, William Francis Thornton, Jr., and Barry Dan McAllister, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided April 1, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amos E. Black, III, Anadarko, Okl., for plaintiff-appellant.

David C. Shilton, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (James W. Moorman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jacques B. Gelin, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Larry D. Patton, U. S. Atty., John E. Green, First Asst. U. S. Atty., Oklahoma City, Okl., with him, on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Delmer L. Stagner of Spradling, Stagner, Alpern & Friot, Oklahoma City, Okl., on brief, for intervenors.

Before SETH, Chief Judge, and HOLLOWAY and LOGAN, Circuit Judges.

SETH, Chief Judge.

This is an action by the Sac and Fox Tribe seeking a review of a decision by the Secretary of Interior. This decision was that Susan Nawashe had been a member of the Sac and Fox Tribe and therefore certain of her descendants, who are the intervenors herein, were entitled to membership in the Tribe. The Tribe had opposed the position taken by the Secretary as its Business Committee had determined that Susan Nawashe had not been a member of the Tribe...

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