The Ute Indian Tribe argued that it had compensable title over 1.5 million of its total 1.9 million acres in northeastern Utah because the federal government never sold the land.
WASHINGTON (CN) — An indigenous tribe from the Rocky Mountains asked a D.C. Circuit panel on Monday to overturn a lower court’s ruling refusing to hand over ownership of 1.5 million acres of land within its Utah reservation under an 1880 treaty with the United States.
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