Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States

The plaintiff’s petition alleges that it is a clan or group of American Indians which has, from time immemorial used, occupied, and claimed a large area of land in Alaska, including some 350 square miles of water, the water area being all waters between Prince of Wales Island and Zarembo Island, *625and elsewhere the water extending a distance varying from two to five miles from the shore of their land; that certain named salmon fishing waters have been seriously impaired by the Government in that it has, by its actions purporting to protect commercial fisheries, taken the plaintiff’s run of…