Legal Opinion
Navajo Tribe of Indians v. State of New Mexico
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 25, 1987No. 84-1418, 84-1764PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKAY, Circuit Judge.
The primary issue in this appeal is whether Section 12 of the Indian Claims Commission Act (ICCA) 1 divests the district court of jurisdiction over the Navajo Tribe’s cause of action against the United States to affirm its title to unallotted lands within an Executive Order reservation that was “restored to the public domain” before all congressionally mandated allotments had been made to the Navajos living on the reservation.
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On November 9, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt issued Executive Order Number 709 which added approximately 1.9 million acres to the Navajo…
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