KEECHI v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 84-2085.

604 F.Supp. 267 (1984)

Charles C. KEECHI, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

As Corrected February 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hans Walker, Jr., Ellen Rhona Kemper, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Edward J. Snyder, Patricia A. Scott-Clayton, Tax Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

Plaintiff, an American Indian, is a successor in interest to the Wichita Indians who, in 1891, by treaty, ceded tribal lands in Oklahoma to the United States to be held in trust in accordance with the General Allotment Act of 1887. Pursuant to the terms of the treaty and the Act, the Bureau of Indian Affairs ("Bureau") of the Interior Department holds in trust for the benefit of the plaintiff certain land located in...

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