Court of Appeals for the First Circuit August 24, 1983, 83-1026 (Frank B. James v. James G. Watt)

BREYER,

Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in this case are individual Indians who claim an interest in land on Gay Head Peninsula, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. In order to prevail, they must upset the present landowners’ chain of title by showing that certain conveyances made many years ago by the Gay Head Indian tribe (or by individual Indians) are invalid.