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or descendents of members of the band or tribes comprising the Yakima
Nation, we found that both petitioners were entitled to maintain claims
for the taking of the lands involved in the Yakima Treaty, and by order
dated July 28, 1959, petitioner in Docket No. 224 was permitted to inter-
vene as a petitioner in Docket No. 161.
The Commission makes the following findings of fact which are supple-
mental to the findings numbered 1 through 18 heretofore made herein
(7 Ind. C1. Comm. 794):
19. The petitioner in Docket No. 222 is the Confederated Tribes of
the Colville Reservation as the representative of the Palus Band, or in
the alternative as the successor to the claims of the Palus Band, and
two named individuals, as the representatives of the Palus Band. The
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Commission finds that the named petitioner in Docket No. 222 may properly
maintain claims before this Commission in its representative capacity
on behalf of the Palus Band or Tribe. The Cormnission,further finds that
petitioner in Docket No. 222 should be allowed to intervene rn the action
brought by petitioner in Docket No. 161, and we have so ordered.
20. The subject case involves claims arising from the alleged taking
by defendant of the aboriginal lands which had been used and occupied by
the Indian tribes which were parties to the 1855 Yakima T.reaty, The lands
alleged to have been so held were, for the most part, within the area ceded
by the Yakima Treaty, as described in Article 1. The ceded area is described
by Charles C. Royce in his compilatian of Indian land cessions as Royce
Area 364, shown on Map 1 of the State of Washington. The.petitloners do