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CHILKAT INDIAN VILLAGE v. JOHNSON

No. 86-4312.

870 F.2d 1469 (1989)

CHILKAT INDIAN VILLAGE, a federally recognized Indian Tribe, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michael R. JOHNSON, an individual, Michael R. Johnson, Inc., a Washington Corporation, The Whale House Group, Defendants-Appellees, and State of Alaska, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 23, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald S. Cooper, Carol H. Daniel, Alaska Legal Services Corp., Anchorage, Alaska, for plaintiff-appellant.

Donna C. Willard, Willoughby & Willard, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendants-appellees.

Douglas K. Mertz, Asst. Atty. Gen., Juneau, Alaska, for defendant-intervenor-appellee.

Before POOLE, FERGUSON and CANBY, Circuit Judges.

CANBY, Circuit Judge:

Chilkat Indian Village is an Indian group organized under section 16 of the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA), 25 U.S.C. § 476. It owns fee lands located in and around Klukwan, Alaska. The Village sued Michael Johnson and sixteen other defendants in federal district court, alleging that defendants violated a Village ordinance and federal law by removing Tlingit Native artifacts from Klukwan. The district court dismissed the Village's complaint...

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