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ALEUT COMMUNITY OF ST. PAUL ISLAND v. UNITED STATES

No. 427-52.

117 F.Supp. 427 (1954)

ALEUT COMMUNITY OF ST. PAUL ISLAND v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

January 5, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin J. Sonosky, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff. King, Noble & Sonosky, Washington, D. C., were on the brief.

Ralph A. Barney, Oklahoma City, Okl. with whom was Perry W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

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

WHITAKER, Judge.

This case is before us on defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's petition.

The petition alleges that plaintiff is a band of American Indians on St. Paul Island, which is one of the Pribilof Islands (located about 350 miles off the west coast of Alaska in the Bering Sea); that it had exclusively occupied this island since long before the acquisition of Alaska by the United States from Russia, during all of which time it had enjoyed the exclusive...

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