Crawley v. United States ex rel. Lujan

TACHA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an order of the district court dismissing plaintiffs’ appeal of a decision of the Secretary of the Interior modifying and approving the last will and testament of an Osage Indian. We affirm.1

I.Background.

The facts in this case are not in dispute. Alice Mathews, an Osage Indian, devised her entire estate, including her Osage head-right,2 to her husband, Gilbert Mathews, or in the event that he did not survive her, to her three children from a previous marriage. Mrs. Mathews's three children, the plaintiffs in this case, are Osage Indians. Mr. Mathews is…