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BIG SPRING v. U.S. BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

Nos. 84-4141, 84-4170.

767 F.2d 614 (1985)

William Forest BIG SPRING Sr., Plaintiff/Appellant, v. The UNITED STATES of America, BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, et al., Defendants/Appellees. Melba Josephine Arnoux WOODHOUSE, Plaintiff/Appellant, v. The UNITED STATES of America, BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, et al., Defendants/Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 31, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Moore, Cut Bank, Mont., for plaintiff/appellant.

Philip Roy, Browning, Mont., William B. Lazarus, Washington, D.C., for defendants/appellees.

Before CHOY, HUG, and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges.

BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judge:

Big Spring and Woodhouse, Blackfeet Indians (plaintiffs), appeal the dismissal of their claims that the mineral rights to their federal land allotments were wrongfully reserved for the Blackfeet Tribe by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Because the district court did not have jurisdiction over the defendants, the United States and the Tribe, we affirm the dismissal.

FACTS

The General Allotment Act of 1887, 25 U.S.C. §...

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