Iowa Tribe of the Iowa Reservation v. United States

Per Curiam :

This case pursues the claims, under the Indian Claims Commission Act, of groups of Iowa and Sac and Fox Indians to additional compensation for Royce Area *36769 in Missouri, which was ceded by each of those Nations to the United States in 1824. Treaties of August 4,1824,7 Stat. 229, 231. In prior decisions the Indian Claims Commission decided that the Iowa held aboriginal title to 1,551,200 acres in the northwest corner of Area 69, while the Sac and Fox had the same kind of ownership of 1,241,700 acres in the northeast corner of the Area (6 Ind. Cl. Comm. 496 (1958)), for which they…