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ROGUE RIVER TRIBE OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

No. 45231.

64 F.Supp. 339 (1946)

ROGUE RIVER TRIBE OF INDIANS et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

February 4, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Everett Sanders, of Washington, D. C. (John G. Mullen, of North Bend, Or., and E. F. Crawford, L. A. Gravelle, Douglas Whitlock, and Edward F. Howrey, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiffs.

Charles H. Small, of Washington, D. C., and J. Edward Williams, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

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

JONES, Judge.

Twenty-seven bands and tribes of Indians instituted this suit. Prior to 1853 they, with several other tribes, lived in Oregon west of the Cascade Mountains between the south line of Oregon and the Columbia River.

Seven treaties are involved in the case. These treaties were made in 1853, 1854 and 1855 between the defendant and various plaintiff bands and tribes. Some of the tribes were included in more than one of the treaties.

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