Legal Opinion
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana v. The United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided January 20, 1969No. 50233PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIS, Judge.
A claim which the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have pressed in this conglomerate suit (see, e. g., 181 Ct.Cl. 739, 741) is that the Government erroneously surveyed the boundaries of the reservation carved out for plaintiff by the Treaty of Hell Gate, 12 Stat. 975 (signed on July 16, 1855, proclaimed on April 18, 1859). 1 In Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Flathead Reservation, Montana v. United States, 173 Ct. Cl. 398 (1965), the court held that certain of the defendant’s surveys were incorrect and that, as a result of these errors, a portion of plaintiff’s…
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