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Bernat, William Albert, Campbell, Philip Joseph, Downey, James Francis, 3d., Erman, William Thomas Saltiet, Handford, Harvey Allen, Keane, Edward Webb, Kiggen, John Augustian, 3d., Montague, William Pepperall, 3d, Oagoodhy, George Melvin, Paschal, Samuel Scoville, Sabath, Leon David, Sharp, Stephen Burwell, Snow, David Tunison, Thieme, Theodore William, Tucker, Dan Stuart, Turner, John Morton
...young Omaha lawyer, George M. Tunison, 30, arrived on the Shoshone reservation to determine heirships of Indian lands in litigation. He opened a hornets' nest when he innocently asked tribal elders how Arapahoes happened to be sharing the reservation. Lawyer Tunison took the Shoshones' case. From 1912 to 1927 he labored to persuade Congress to permit the Shoshones to sue the Government. From 1927 to 1933 he organized the case, presented it to the United States Court of Claims, which granted the Shoshones $2,500,000 in 1935. The Indians appealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld their...
...Indians $4,408,444, approximately $1.50 per acre for the million acres given to the Arapahoes in 1878, with interest at 5% for 60 years minus the expenditures (about $1,600,000) the Government has made for Shoshone schools and roads in excess of treaty requirement. To Lawyer Tunison & associates are expected to go legal fees...
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