Whiskers v. United States

McKAY, Circuit Judge.

This litigation arises out of a settlement between the United States and the Southern Paiute Nation to compensate the latter for the taking of aboriginal homelands in southern Utah and northern Arizona.1 In 1965 Congress appropriated more than seven million dollars to pay the settlement sum. Second Supplemental Appropriations Act, Pub.L. No. 89-16, tit. IV, 79 Stat. 108 (1965) (the Appropriation Act).2 The Southern Paiute Judgment Distribution Act, Pub.L. No. 90-584, 82 Stat. 1147 (1968) (the Distribution Act) was enacted three years later to provide for distribution of…