The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.164-165

The Indian plaintiffs complaint alleges that federal defendants have violated the mandate of Public Law 96-217, Section 2, which provides: “Not later than June 30, 1981, the Secretary of the Interior, after consultation with the Attorney General, shall submit to the Congress legislative proposals to resolve those Indian claims subject to the amendments made by the first section of this act [Extending the statute of limitations period] that the Secretary of the Interior or the Attorney General believes are not appropriate to resolve by litigation. “

 Plaintiffs contend as a class, all Indians and Indian tribes that have pre-1966 money damage claims affecting lands held in trust or restricted status, have been materially injured by this wrongful, unlawful agency action.

Plaintiffs No. 30 in the suit, are the members of the Blackfeet Tribe of Indians, who have interests in a number of claims identified by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Blackfeet Reservation including approximately 605 claims [400 acres each] which can be characterized as forced fee patents claims, 37 claims [400 acres each] which can be characterized as secretarial transfers of deceased Indian lands, and many [unknown] old age assistance claims, whereby old people, and dependent Indian mothers were told by county officials to sell their trust allotments to qualify for county welfare services.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.164-165