Sioux Tribe of Indians v. United States

Plaintiff computes the amount of its claim of $782,545.54 by multiplying $175, claimed to be the amount which the Government obligated itself to expend for seeds and agricultural implements for a period of four years, by 4,549, as the number of heads of families claimed upon the basis of the Indian Agencies’ reports (finding 7) to have been engaged in agriculture in 1886, and deducts from- the amount of $796,075 thus obtained the amount of $13,529.46 appropriated by the Government under Art. 8 and expended during the years from 1874 to June 30, 1878.

The claim involved in this proceeding is…