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The original documents are located in Box 4, folder "Oneida Nation" of the Bradley H.
Patterson Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 4 of the Bradley H. Patterson Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
September 28, 1976
Dear Mr. Shattuck:
The President has asked me to thank you
for your letter of September 24 son-
cerning the institution of a suit on
behalf of the Oneida IndianaNation.
I am referring your request promptly to
the Solicitor of the Department of the
Interior.
Sincerely yours,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. George c. Shattuck
Bond, Schoeneck & King
One Lincoln Center
Syracuse, New York 13202
FORD is LIBRARY
CC: Peter Taft
CC: Philip Buchen
BOND, SCHOENECK & KING
CHARLES A. SCHOENECK, JR.
WILLIAM D. JOHNSON
HOWARD H. CANNON
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
1929-1969
HUBERT C. STRATTON
WILLIAM F. FITZPATRICK
ONE LINCOLN CENTER
GEORGE H. BOND, JR.
TRACY H. FERGUSON
1936-1973
LYLE W. HORNBECK
SYRACUSE, N. Y. 13202
JOHN C. KINNEY
CHESTER H. KING, JR.
1947-1974
N. EARLE EVANS, JR.
FRANCIS E. MALONEY
PHONE (315) 422-0121
FRANCIS D. PRICE
LLOYD G. FIX
JAMES E. WILBER
JAMES E. MACKIN
ANTON H. ZAHM
ALBANY OFFICE
STEPHEN H. COHEN
HENRY R. MCCARTHY
III WASHINGTON AVENUE
DAVID N. SEXTON
RAYMOND W. MURRAY, JR.
ALBANY, N. Y. 12210
THOMAS S. EVANS
JOSEPH J. LAWTON, JR.
PHONE (518) 462-7421
H. DEAN HEBERLIG, JR.
GEORGE C. SHATTUCK
THOMAS J. GROOMS
LESLIE H. DEMING
RICHARD L. SMITH
JOHN J. DEE
CARL E. M. WORBOYS
JOHN A. BEACH
GARY R. GERMAIN
CHARLES T. BEECHING, JR.
JAMES P. McDONALD
WILLIAM P. BURROWS
STEPHEN J. VOLLMER
JOHN M. FREYER
September 24, 1976
5. PAUL BATTAGLIA
ROBERT W. KOPP
GARY M. CLARK
ARTHUR E. BONGIOVANNI
JAMES E. WALSH III
JOHN S. FERGUSON
..LAWRENCE TULLY
CHARLES T. MAJOR, JR.
MICHAEL P. SHANLEY
ROBERT E. MOSES
PAUL M. SANSOUCY
WILLIAM L. BERGAN
EDWARD D. CAVANAGH
ANTHONY R. PITTARELLI
ROBERT J. MEISENHEL
FRANCIS E. MALONEY, JR.
DAVID P. O'HARA
WALLACE J. MCDONALD
HENRY H. MELCHOR
JAMES D. FITZPATRICK
JOHN D. ALLEN
ROBERT J. HUNT
RICHARD D. HOLE
STEPHEN L. JOHNSON
DAVID M. PELLOW
DAVID A. HOLSTEIN
PAULA LAPIN SEIFTER
The President
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20025
Re: Oneida Nation - Claim Against New York State
My dear Mr. President:
Pursuant to the Six Nations Treaty of 1794, the Oneida
Indian Nation hereby formally requests that the United States of
America commence a suit to recover its former reservation lands
in New York State.
Details of this matter have previously been furnished
to the Attorney General and to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and
a copy of this letter is being sent to Reid Peyton Chambers, Esq.,
Solicitor for the Department of the Interior.
Very respectfully yours,
BOND, SCHOENECK & KING
GCS/b
CC: Hon. Edward H. Levi
Attorney General of the
United States
Reid Peyton Chambers, Esq.
Associate Solicitor
OF THE INTERIOR
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR
March
3.
1849
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240
Mr. George C. Shattuck
Bond, Schoeneck & King
One Lincoln Center
Syracuse, New York 13202
28 OCT 1976
Dear Mr. Shattuck:
By letter to the President dated September 24, 1976, you requested
on behalf of the Oneida Indian Nation of New York that the United
States file an action against New York State to recover former
Oneida reservation lands. Your letter was referred to this office
for response.
On October 13, 1976, this Department requested the Justice Department
to file an action against New York State to seek a declaration that
treaties which were entered into between the State and the Oneida
Tribe without the consent of the United States are void as in viola-
tion of Federal Law, 25 U.S.C. $177. The lands involved are those
confirmed to the Oneidas by the United States in the Treaty with the
Six Nations entered into on November 17, 1795, 7 Stat. 44, 45. We
have also requested that an unspecified amount of money damages for
trespass be sought and that New York be ejected from all lands it
now presently occupies which are not devoted to a vital public purpose.
If money damages are to be sought, an action will have to be filed
before July 18, 1977 to avoid the running of the statute of limitations,
28 U.S.C. $2415. This Department can only recommend, as it has, that
an action be filed. Whether an action is filed is a matter within
the discretion of the Justice Department. You may now wish to pursue
the matter with that Department.
Sincerely yours,
FORD LIBRARY
Acting Solicitor
REVOLUTION
AMERICAN
BICENTENNIAL
1776-1976