Legal Opinion
The Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska and Harry Douglas, Intervenors v. The United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided January 19, 1968No. 47900PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LARAMORE, Judge.
The Act of June 19, 1935, 49 Stat. 388, ch. 275 (as amended by Act of June 5, 1942, 56 Stat. 323, and Act of June 4, 1945, 59 Stat. 231) gave this court jurisdiction to adjudicate all claims which the Tlingit and Haida Indians may have against the United States, including compensation owed both for land and other tribal property rights in southeastern Alaska expropriated by the United States and for the failure of, and refusal by, the United States to protect those property rights from usurpation by non-Indians.
By our decision of October 7, 1959 (Tlingit and Haida…
2Cases cited53 opinions
- Olson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Shively v. BowlbySupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Geer v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- United States v. WinansSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Johnson & Graham's Lessee v. McIntoshSupreme Court of the United States · 1823
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Jacob Adams v. Cyrus Vance, Secretary of StateCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1978
- American Indians Residing on the Maricopa-Ak Chin Reservation v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1981
- State v. CoffeeIdaho Supreme Court · 1976
- The Wahkiakum Band of Chinook Indians v. Mrs. Allen BatemanCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1981
- Edwardsen v. MortonDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1973
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