United States v. Fort Sill Apache Tribe of the State of Oklahoma

This appeal is against an award for “trespass damages” and is another phase of a litigation almost as full of dramatic contest, confrontation, and strange turns of fate, as is the history of the claimant tribe or band in the period to which its claims relate, the nineteenth century. From the filing of the petition, August 1, 1951, there were pending simultaneous claims under the Indian Claims Commission Act, 25 U.'S.C. Sec. 70 and ff., for the taking by conquest of a vast area to which it claimed aboriginal title, and for removal of resources from the same area before the date of title…