Northern Paiute Nation v. United States

OPINION

LYDON, Judge:

In this Indian claims case, plaintiff, the Walker River Tribe (the Tribe), seeks damages to compensate it for losses resulting from the non-irrigation of certain allotted irrigable land. Plaintiff attributes the loss to the government’s failure to perform an obligation to provide the Tribe with water.1 The sole issue presently before the court is whether there exists subject matter jurisdiction in the court to decide the claim presented by the Tribe.

Defendant has moved for summary judgment, contending that the claim is an aggregation of individual Indian claims rather than…