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ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK v. STATE OF N.Y.

Nos. 78-CV-104, 79-CV-798.

649 F.Supp. 420 (1986)

ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK, et al., Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF NEW YORK, et al., Defendants. ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF WISCONSIN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. The STATE OF NEW YORK, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. New York.

As Amended December 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Native American Rights Fund, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff Oneida Indian Nation of Wisconsin; Arlinda Locklear, Francis Skenadore, Oneida, Wis., of counsel.

Daan Braveman, Gary T. Kelder, Syracuse, N.Y., for plaintiff Oneida of the Thames Band.

Bertram Hirsch, Floral Park, N.Y., for Oneida Indian Nation of New York.

Indian Law Resources Center, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-intervenors, The Houdenosaunee and certain Constituent Nations; Robert Coulter, Curtis Berkey, of counsel.

Goodwin Proctor & Hoar, Boston, Mass., Hiscock & Barclay, Syracuse, N.Y., Sherman & Sterling, Huber Lawrence & Abell, New York City, Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of N.Y., Albany, N.Y., for defendants; Allan van Gestel, Jeffrey C. Bates, Boston, Mass., Richard Hughes, Syracuse, N.Y., Arnold Bauman, David Marks, Howard Schmertz, New York City, David Roberts, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N.Y., of counsel.

MEMORANDUM-DECISION & ORDER

McCURN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs and plaintiff-intervenors in the present actions are the descendants and successors-in-interest to the Oneida Indian Nation (Oneidas). They claim title to and the right to possess approximately six million acres of land in central New York. Plaintiffs base their claim on aboriginal title confirmed by United States treaty. The land at issue extends in a fifty to sixty mile wide strip from...

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