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COLEMAN v. UNITED STATES BUR. OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

No. 82-2630.

715 F.2d 1156 (1983)

James COLEMAN, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The UNITED STATES of America, BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 19, 1983.

As Amended August 23, 1983.

Rehearing Denied October 14, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Schroeder, Emory Andrew Tate & Associates, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Ellen J. Durkee, Appellate Section, Land Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee.

Before PELL and BAUER, Circuit Judges, and DUMBAULD, Senior U.S. District Judge.

DUMBAULD, Senior U.S. District Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants are descendants of Creek Indians. They allege breach by the United States of its trusteeship of Indian lands held for the Creek nation. Most of the land (2,997,114 acres) was distributed to individual Creeks (and freedmen, of mixed blood, partly Creek). Appellants' ancestors duly received their allotments. Appellants' alleged grievance relates to disposition of 65,965 acres which were not allotted to individuals...

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