• The Indian Claims Commission (ICC) was a judicial relations arbiter between the United States federal government and Native American tribes. It was established...
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  • relationship with the federal government. Through the Indian Claims Commission, tribes had the ability to file claims against the government for breaches of treaty...
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    the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975, and the final distribution of their claims with the Indian Claims Commission, allowed...
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    Claims Commission, Docket 234, found, in 1957, that the Clatsop Chinooks were part of the Chinook Indian Nation. The Indian Claims Commission also found...
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    Affairs Commission of Indian Affairs, state equivalents of the federal Bureau Indian agent Indian Claims Commission Indian reservations National Indian Gaming...
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    Lenape (redirect from Delaware Indian)
    "9 Indian Claims Commission 346" (PDF). okstate.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 14, 2018. "12 Indian Claims Commission...
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  • began filing litigation in the 1950s. As a result of a claim filed with the Indian Claims Commission, the group was awarded a settlement of $1,313,472.65...
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    deadline in August, 1951. At least 6 claims were filed by the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma with the Claims Commission — some on their own behalf, and some...
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  • Congress for a forum for their claims, and in 1946 Congress created an independent federal agency, the Indian Claims Commission, to "hear and determine all...
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    Robertson 2001, p. 196. Osage v. the United States of America, Indian Claims Commission The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade. Hoig, Stan. pp. 33...
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  • grounds". The Indian Claims Commission later acknowledged the validity of the claim, by way of the 1868 Fort Bridger Treaty. The Commission found on 13...
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    established the "Navajo Indian Reservation" in Northern Arizona. The term reservation is one that creates territorialities or claims on places. This treaty...
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    Department of Interior established the Indian Claims Commission, to consider compensation for tribes that claimed their lands were seized by the federal...
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    Illustrations from the California Indian Land Claims Case," in Irredeemable America: the Indians' Estate and Land Claims, ed. I. Sutton (Albuquerque: University...
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  • twice as chairman of the American-Mexican Claims Commission and chief commissioner of the Indian Claims Commission. Witt was born on January 28, 1876, in...
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    Indian Land Claims Settlements are settlements of Native American land claims by the United States Congress, codified in 25 U.S.C. ch. 19. In several...
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    began filing litigation in the 1950s. As a result of a claim filed with the Indian Claims Commission, the group was awarded a settlement of $1,313,472.65...
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    Indian Claims Commission Act of 1946, as before that they were unable to bring claims against the US government. In 1970 and 1974 the Oneida Indian Nation...
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    2008 to 2015, organized by the parties of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. The commission was officially established on June 1, 2008...
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  • Because of the overlapping of claims, the commission split the Florida claim into two cases, one sharing the Oklahoma claims in the treaties and the other...
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    Society. Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Indian Claims Commission (1978). Indian Claims Commission Decisions, Volume 11, Part 1. Washington, DC:...
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    January 24, 1936. In 1948, the tribe began preparing a case for the Indian Claims Commission. They filed Washoe Case #288 before the ICC in 1951, asking for...
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    Iroquois (redirect from Iroquois Indian)
    outstanding land claims in New York, the three tribes filed litigation with the Claims Commission in the 1950s. They won their claim on August 11, 1964...
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    claim made by the Northwestern Shoshone. The Supreme Court declared this claim to be non-binding in a 1945 ruling, but the Indian Claims Commission recognized...
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    volumes, 340 pp. Maps, Bibliography. Docket 22-A, Indian Claims Commission. Indian Claims Commission. Jicarilla Apache Tribe of the Jicarilla Apache Reservation...
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    land claims were explicitly barred from Claims Courts by statute. The Indian Claims Commission Act of 1946 (ICCA) created forum of Indian land claims before...
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  • anticipated by decades the establishment of a federal Indian Claims Commission in 1946 to hear claims of Indian tribes against the United States. In 1978 such...
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    had litigated many claims in front of the Indian Claims Commission. Based on the acreage involved, Lazarus pointed out that the claim would net only $300...
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    million votes that were polled. The Indian National Congress won 52 seats, failing to get 10% of the seats needed to claim the post of Leader of the Opposition...
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    historical damages flowing from the Louisiana Purchase led to the Indian Claims Commission Act (ICCA) in 1946. Felix S. Cohen, Interior Department lawyer...
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