Lower Sioux Indian Community v. United States

Plaintiff Indian bands, representing the Sioux of the Mississippi,1 timely filed a petition before the Indian Claims Commission claiming inter alia an accounting from the Government of tribal funds and properties in the control or management of the United States. Among the items for which accounting was sought were annuities due the tribes under the Treaties of September 29, 1837, 7 Stat. 538 (with the Medawakanton), of July 23, 1851, 10 Stat. 949 (with the Sisseton and Wahpeton), and of August 5, 1851, 10 Stat. 954 (with the Medawakanton and Wahpa-koota).

*460Before the Commission, defendant…