LaMear v. United States

OPINION

REGINALD W. GIBSON, Judge:

I. Introduction

Plaintiff, Jennie Red Fox LaMear, is a member of the Blackfeet Tribe of the *563Blackfeet Indian Reservation, located in Browning, Montana. Plaintiff’s cause of action is premised on an alleged breach of fiduciary duty, as trustee, occasioned by the defendant’s failure to properly handle a 1950 voluntary exchange of Indian allotments between plaintiff’s mother-in-law, Good Victory Red Fox Spottedeagle (Spottedeagle) and another tribe member, Rosie Yellowowl Wells (Yellowowl) in violation of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (IRA), 25 U.S.C. §…