United States Tenth Circuit

Land patent to member of putative Indian group may establish that individual member is descendent of an Indian tribe but is insufficient to establish the group as tribal entity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/13/2001
• Published 06/13/2001

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, SEYMOUR and BRORBY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sean W. Pickett, Weber, Pickett & Gale, L.L.C., Kansas City, MO, and John W. Ragsdale, Jr., Prairie Village, KS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sean H. Donahue, and Ellen Durkee, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, (James F. Simon, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Jackie N. Williams, United States Attorney, Janice Miller Karlin, Assistant United States Attorney, Kansas City, KS, with him on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.