Pueblo De Zia v. United States

This is an appeal from an Indian Claims Commission decision 1 which held that petitioners failed to prove aboriginal title2 to some 298,634 acres of land that had become part of the Public Domain of the United States under the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo with Mexico in 1848.3 The 298,634 acres are part of a 520,000 acre tract located in what is now Sandoval County, New Mexico. The tract was known as Oro *503Del Espíritu Santo (Holy Ghost Spring); it is bounded on the north -by the Ventana, on the south by the stone ford of the Puerco Eiver, on the east by the boundary line of Eange 3 East, and on…