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MATTER OF ESTATE OF LITTLE BEAR

No. 77005.

909 P.2d 42 (1995)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Mae LITTLE BEAR, Deceased. Sophia Little Bear OVERTON, Now Dahlberg and Hayesenne Little Bear Dunlap, Now Haskins, Appellants, v. Bruce GAMBILL, Executor of the Estate of Mae Little Bear, Deceased; Leon Edward Stansifer and Lonnie Calvin Stansifer, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

December 5, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent P. Sullivan, Leach, Sullivan, Sullivan, & Green, Duncan, for Appellants.

Bruce W. Gambill, Gambill & Associates, Pawhuska, for Appellees.

LAVENDER, Justice.

We decide whether the Osage Tribe of Indians Technical Corrections Act of 1984, Pub.L. No. 98-605, 98 Stat. 3163 (1984 Act), was intended by Congress to prohibit a non-Indian devisee from receiving more than a life estate in a headright devised to such devisee by the will of a non-Indian devisor, who owned the full beneficial interest in the headright at the time of death? We hold the 1984 Act, which amended...

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