United States v. Northern Paiute Nation

This is an appeal by the United States. It calls on us to review' an interlocutory determination, an order of the Indian Claims Commission, 28 Ind. Cl. Comm. 256 (1972), which holds that the defendant is liable to the plaintiffs for the resources removed (by any and all persons, apparently) from the Nevada portion of the Paviotso tract prior to the date of extinguishment of plaintiffs’ aboriginal title, December 31, 1862, but after the United States acquired the area from Mexico on February 2, 1848. We have jurisdiction to *471conduct a review of such, an interlocutory determination under 25…