Legal Opinion
Whitefoot v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided July 19, 1961No. 497-57PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Need, Justice {Ret.),
sitting by designation, delivered the opinion of the court:
This is a suit to recover compensation for the taking by destruction through inundation of certain fishing rights and other rights claimed as the individual property of plaintiffs in the Columbia River near Celilo Falls in the States of *129Washington and Oregon by the construction by the United States of The Dalles Dam, completed in 1956.
The plaintiffs are Indians enrolled in the Yakima Nation, a confederation created and granted a reservation by the Treaty between the United States and the Yakima Nation, June 9,…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- United States v. WinansSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Johnson & Graham's Lessee v. McIntoshSupreme Court of the United States · 1823
- Choate v. TrappSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Tulee v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Shoshone Tribe of Indians v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
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3Cited by40 opinions
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- Settler v. LameerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1974
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