Te-Moak Bands of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada v. The United States

BENNETT, Senior Circuit Judge.

The Te-Moak Bands of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada appeal the judgment of the United States Claims Court, 18 Cl.Ct. 74 (1989), which granted the United States’ (Government) motion to dismiss the Indians’ water claim exceptions (Exceptions 15 & 16, filed June 29,1982) to the Government’s accounting report. The Claims Court held that these exceptions were outside the scope of their original accounting petition, did not relate back to the accounting claims of the original petition and were thus barred by the Indian Claims Commission Act’s limitations provision,…