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SIOUX TRIBE OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

Appeal Docket No. 10-52.

111 F.Supp. 766 (1953)

SIOUX TRIBE OF INDIANS OF LOWER BRULE RESERVATION, S. D. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

May 5, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph H. Case, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Maurice H. Cooperman, Washington, D. C., with whom was J. Edward Williams, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and HOWELL, Judges.

MADDEN, Judge.

The appellants complain of the decision of the Indian Claims Commission, Docket No. 78, which denied their claim for compensation for lands which, they say, belonged to them, but were taken and sold by the United States.

Prior to 1889 the Great Sioux Reservation contained some 26,000,000 acres of land located in North and South Dakota. By an agreement embodied in the Act of March 2, 1889, 25 Stat...

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