Six Nations v. United States

Appellants represent the Six Nations — tbe league of Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas, Mohawks and *902Tuscaroras who lived in parts of western New York and Pennsylvania during colonial times. They sue in this case under the Indian Claims Commission Act, 25 U.S.C. § 70a, for the value of two tracts of land sold by the Six Nations in the 1780’s for an allegedly unconscionable consideration. The larger area was transterred to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, not to the United States, but the charge is that the United States had such a relationship to the Six Nations, and to the sale, that it…