Northern Paiute Nation v. United States

OPINION

LYDON, Judge:

In this Indian Claims case, the Walker River Tribe, one of six organized tribes of the Northern Paiute Nation, seeks damages based on defendant’s alleged failure to honor its obligation to provide an irrigation system sufficient to irrigate 10,-000 acres of land on the Walker River Reservation in Nevada.1 The court has before it defendant’s motion for summary judgment asserting that this irrigation claim by the Walker River Tribe is outside the jurisdiction of this court because it is an aggregate of individual Indian claims as opposed to a unitary tribal claim. Plaintiff…