Chippewa Indians v. United States

The plaintiffs in this case bring suit for a sum not specified in the petition, but if substantially all their claims are sustained they would be entitled to a judgment of several millions of dollars. Both the defendant and the intervenor, the Bed Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, contravene the allegations of the petition and the defendant sets up some other defenses which, in our view of the case, it is not necessary to consider. The case comes here under a congressional reference. The terms of the statute referring it, so far as material to the determination of the case, are fully set out in…