United States Ninth Circuit

The Alaska Native Allotment Act, which allowed Eskimos to claim certain public lands if they used it for personal use five years before going into the public domain, does not apply if the claimant used the land as a minor at the direction of his parents.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/06/2001
• Decided 11/08/2001
• Published 11/08/2001

Judges

• T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, T.G. NELSON and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Harold J. Curran,Alaska Legal Services Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John A. Bryson,United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.