Sioux Tribe of Indians v. United States

SUMMARY JUDGMENT OPINION — III LAND ADJUSTMENT OFFSET

YOCK, Judge.

This case involves the appropriate valuation to be placed upon Sioux tribal land acquired by the United States in the Treaty of April 29, 1868 (1868 Treaty), 15 Stat. 635. The defendant, in this summary judgment motion, seeks to offset the value of land inadvertently transferred to the plaintiff, the Sioux Tribe of Indians, by the 1868 Treaty. The defendant’s motion is one of six summary judgment motions brought by the parties in the offset portion of this very old and complex case.1

Specifically, the defendant urges this Court…