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Chickasaw Nation v. Department of the Interior

District Court, W.D. Oklahoma

Decided April 16, 2014No. CIV-05-1524-WPublished

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

LEE R. WEST, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Since the Treaty of Hopewell was signed on January 3, 1786, by The Choctaw Nation (“Choctaw Nation”) and on January 10, 1786, by The Chickasaw Nation (“Chickasaw Nation”), wherein the United States of America acknowledged that the Choctaw Nation and the Chickasaw Nation were “to be under-[its] protection,” 7 Stat. 21, Article 2; e.g,, 7 Stat. 24, Article 2, “the United States has held in trust for thefse] Nations vast resources including, inter alia, land, minerals, and monetary funds.”. Doc. 91 at 8, ¶23. In the third amended complaint filed in…

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