SIOUX TRIBE OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

No. 4-55.

146 F.Supp. 229 (1956)

The SIOUX TRIBE OF INDIANS, et al. v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

November 7, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Maurice H. Cooperman, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Perry W. Morton, for appellee.

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


LARAMORE, Judge.

This is an appeal by the Sioux Tribe of Indians from an order of the Indian Claims Commission Docket No. 74 dismissing appellant's petition alleging that it was unconscionably compensated by defendant for 7,345,157 acres of its permanent reservation, more commonly known as the Black Hills, taken from it by the appellee pursuant to the Act of February 28, 1877, 19 Stat. 254.1 The claim is brought under section 2(3) and...

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