Caddo Tribe v. United States

Appellant Indian tribe asks this court to review and reverse a determination of the Indian Claims Commission partially adverse to appellant’s assertion of ownership, use or occupancy of lands in northwestern Louisiana and southwestern Arkansas which appellant tribe purported to cede to the United States by treaty in 1835. Treaty of July ls *651835, 7 Stat. 470. Tbe case is presently before us on appel-lee’s motion to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction in that the determination appealed from is not a final determination within the meaning of section 20 (b) of the Indian Claims…