Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation v. United States

This motion presents another claim in this many-faceted litigation,1 a claim resulting from the use under a federal *742license of tbe Tribes’ land in Flathead Eeservation, Montana, for power-production facilities. The Indians receive annual payments from the licensee, but seek greater compensation. They assert that, at the behest of the Federal Government, the licensee must sell power to a federally sponsored irrigation project at so low a rate as to subsidize that agency and deprive the plaintiffs of the full power value of tbeir land used by the licensee. The defendant moves for summary…