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SISSETON-WAHPETON SIOUX TRIBE v. U.S.

No. 88-3922.

895 F.2d 588 (1990)

SISSETON-WAHPETON SIOUX TRIBE, OF the LAKE TRAVERSE INDIAN RESERVATION, NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTH DAKOTA, Devils Lake Sioux Tribe, of the Devils Lake Sioux Reservation, North Dakota; Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Council, of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior; James A. Baker, Secretary of the Treasury, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided February 2, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bertram E. Hirsch, Floral Park, N.Y., for plaintiffs-appellants.

M. Alice Thurston, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before BROWNING, SCHROEDER and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

The Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, the Devils Lake Sioux Tribe, and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Council of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes ("the Tribes") appeal from the district court's dismissal of their suit, 686 F.Supp. 831, which the court found was barred by the six year statute of limitations imposed by 28 U.S.C. § 2401(a) on all civil actions against the United States. The Tribes brought...

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