WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE TRIBE v. HODEL

No. 85-1721.

784 F.2d 921 (1986)

WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE TRIBE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Donald P. HODEL, Secretary; Frank K. Richardson, Solicitor; James H. Stevens, Area Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs; et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 7, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Veeder, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Martin W. Matzen, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before GOODWIN, NELSON and CANBY, Circuit Judges.


CANBY, Circuit Judge:

This is another case in the continuing dispute over Indian rights to water from the Salt River watershed in Arizona. In this appeal, the White Mountain Apache Tribe challenges the dismissal of several of its claims against officials of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The claims were primarily based on the government's allegedly poor performance as trustee for the Tribe's natural resources. The Tribe characterizes its action as raising one...

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