04/02/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly [162] Id. at 696; see also 41 ALR Fed 425, Annotation: Proof and Extinguishment of Aboriginal Title to Indian Lands, Sec. 2[a] [1979]. [163] Buttz v. Northern Pac.R. Co., Dak., 7 S. Ct. 100, 119 U.S. 55, 30 L. Ed. 330, 335 [1886]. [164] Lynch, Native Title, supra, at 293-294; Cohen, Original Indian Title, 32 Minn. L.R. 48-49 [1947]. [165] 6 Pet 515, 8 L.Ed. 483 [1832]. [166] Id. at 499. [167] Id. at 500. [168] Id. at 501. [169] The title of the government to Indian lands, the naked fee, is a sovereign title, the government having no landlord from whom it holds the fee-- Shoshone Tribe of Indians of Wind River Reservation in Wyoming v. U.S., 85 Ct. Cl. 331, certiorari granted U.S. v. Shoshone Tribe of Indians, 58 S. Ct. 609, 303 U.S. 629, 82 L. Ed. 1090, affirmed 58 S. Ct. 794, 304 U.S. 111, 82 L. Ed. 1213, 1218-1219 [1938]. [170] Buttz v. Northern Pac. R. Co., Dak., at 30 L. Ed. 330, 335; Beecher v. Wetherby, Wis., 95 U.S. 517, 24 L. Ed. 440, 441 [1877]; see also 42 C.J.S., Indians, Sec. 28 [1944 ed.]. [171] Annotation, Proof and Extinguishment of Aboriginal title to Indian Lands, 41 ALR Fed 425, Sec. 2 [b] [1979]-- hereinafter cited as Aboriginal Title to Indian Lands. [172] Ibid.; see also Tee Hit Ton Indians v. U.S., 348 U.S. 272, 99 L. Ed. 314, 320, 75 S. Ct. 313 [1955], reh den 348 U.S. 965, 99 L. Ed. 753, 75 S. Ct. 521. [173] Ibid.; Tee Hit Ton Indians v. U.S., at 99 L. Ed. 320. [174] Oneida Indian Nation v. County of Oneida, 414 U.S. 661, 39 L. Ed. 2d 73, 94 S Ct. 772 [1974]; U.S. v. Alcea Bank of Tillamooks, 329 U.S. 40, 91 L. Ed. 29. 67 S. Ct. 167 [1946]. [175] For compensation under the Indian Claims Commission Act, the proof of aboriginal title rests on actual, exclusive and continuous use and occupancy for a long time prior to the loss of the property. (The Indian Claims Commission Act awards compensation to Indians whose aboriginal titles were extinguished by the government through military conquest, creation of a reservation, forced confinement of Indians and removal of Indians from certain portions of the land an the designation of Indian land into forest preserve, grazing district, etc.) -- Aboriginal Title to Indian Lands, supra, at Secs. 2[a], 3[a], pp. 431, 433, 437. elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/36882 65/148