Legal Opinion
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided March 23, 1990No. 181-DPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
REGINALD W. GIBSON, Judge:
The Confederated Tribes1 of the Colville Reservation (plaintiffs or the Tribes) seek compensation for the water power values of certain tribal lands taken and used by the United States (defendant) in the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Reservoir on the Columbia River in the State of Washington. The amended petition, the last in a series of claims commenced on July 31, 1951, is filed pursuant to the authority of the Indian Claims Commission Act (ICCA) of 1946, Pub.L. No. 79-726, § 2, 60 Stat. 1049, 1050, formerly codified at…
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