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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 652. Claims against United States for appropriated lands; submission to United States Court of Federal Claims; appeal; grounds for relief
All claims of whatsoever nature the Indians of California as
defined in section 651 of this title may have against the United
States by reason of lands taken from them in the State of
California by the United States without compensation, or for the
failure or refusal of the United States to compensate them for
their interest in lands in said State which the United States
appropriated to its own purposes without the consent of said
Indians, may be submitted to the United States Court of Federal
Claims by the attorney general of the State of California acting
for and on behalf of said Indians for determination of the
equitable amount due said Indians from the United States; and
jurisdiction is conferred upon the United States Court of Federal
Claims,(!1) to hear and determine all such equitable claims of said
Indians against the United States and to render final decree
thereon.
It is declared that the loss to the said Indians on account of
their failure to secure the lands and compensation provided for in
the eighteen unratified treaties is sufficient ground for equitable
relief.
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