United States Court of Claims July 12, 1963, Appeal No. 1-62 (Nooksack Tribe of Indians ex rel. Louis v. United States)

Durfee, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court:

This case is an appeal from a judgment by the Indian Claims Commission which found that appellant was an identifiable tribe of Indians which used and occupied exclusively only 80,590 acres of the 498,080 acres claimed by the tribe under aboriginal Indian title in the State of Washington.