Hannahville Indian Community v. United States

OPINION

WILLI, Senior Judge.

Plaintiffs, discrete bands of Potawatomie Indians residing in Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin, brought this action before the Indian Claims Commission (the Commission) in 1948. In 1951, without significant activity in the interim, they amended their petition to assert the claim that now constitutes the whole of the suit and is the subject of this opinien viz, that an accounting would establish, first, that plaintiffs had been wrongfully deprived of certain annuities and other payments lawfully due them under 12 treaties concluded by the Potawatomie and the United…