The United States v. The Delaware Tribe of Indians and the Absentee Delaware Tribe of Indians

ON APPEAL FROM THE INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION

SKELTON, Judge.

This is an appeal by the government and a cross-appeal by the plaintiffs, Delaware Tribe of Indians and Absentee Delaware Tribe of Oklahoma, hereafter called Delawares or plaintiffs, from a decision of the Indian Claims Commission of June 4, 1969, reported in 21 Ind. Cl.Comm. 18. The Claims of the parties originated in a suit by the Delawares to recover the value of a strip of land in Kansas known as the Delaware “outlet” which was 10 miles wide and 150 miles long from east to west, beginning about 45 miles west of Leavenworth. This…