Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community v. United States

OPINION

HORN, Judge.

FINDINGS OF FACT

Plaintiffs, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community1 (hereinafter, the Community) and 495 individual members of the Community, individually and as a proposed class,2 seek money damages from the United *608States Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) for breach of a “Contract and Grant of Easement.” The “Contract and Grant of Easement,” made pursuant to an Act of Congress approved June 17, 1902 (Pub.L. No. 57-161, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388 (1902)), is dated August 1,1949 and was entered into between the United States and the Indian Allotees and owners of…