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SIOUX TRIBE OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

Nos. C-531(18-24).

64 F.Supp. 312 (1946)

SIOUX TRIBE OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

February 4, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph H. Case, of Washington, D. C. (James S. Y. Ivins, of Washington, D. C., on the briefs), for plaintiff.

George T. Stormont, of Washington, D. C., and J. Edward Williams, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Before WHALEY, Chief Justice, and LITTLETON, JONES, WHITAKER, and MADDEN, Judges.

LITTLETON, Judge.

The act of March 2, 1889, 25 Stat. 888, divided the then existing Great Sioux Reservation into seven separate reservations (including the one for the Santee Sioux in Nebraska), and sec. 21 thereof directed the sale or disposition for the benefit of the Sioux Tribe of all land not included in such separate reservations or otherwise reserved. It also authorized in section 8 general allotments to the Sioux Indians on the several reservations and the...

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