The Sac and Fox Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma v. The United States

DAVIS, Judge.

This is another interlocutory appeal on behalf of a claimant from a determination by the Indian Claims Commission that the tribe did not possess recognized title.to the lands in suit and had aboriginal title only to a part of those lands.

7 Ind.Cl.Comm. 675, Docket 83 (1959). 1 By the Treaty of November 3, 1804, 7 Stat. 84, the Sac and Fox Tribes ceded to the United States a large area extending north and south along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers in southwestern Wisconsin, western Illinois, and Northeastern Missouri; most of the tract lay immediately east of the Mississippi,…