The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.170-171

President Reagan and Secretary of the Interior James Watt buried the 17,000 Indian claims to 10,000,000 acres of private-property of the Indians stolen by whites; thereby stonewalling the Indian claims out of existence and memory. At his last desperate measure for abrogating two centuries of established Indian law and Congressional acts, representing the sacred word of the American people in treaty; President Reagan claimed as a final argument for dismissal of Indian claims that the Indian plaintiffs’ action is barred by Laches. The President of the United States and Secretary of the Interior James Watt claimed that deceased Indian claimants or crooked federal trustees of the Interior Department had had enough previous knowledge concerning the Chief Executive and Secretary of the Interior decisions not to litigate and not to propose legislation to institute a lawsuit much earlier in time, therefore the actions are barred by the passage of time.  

This specious argument by President Reagan is blaming the crime victims, and lacks merit on moral grounds since my illiterate grandmothers, who they robbed, passed away in the 1930’s, landless and in poverty, robbed by Joe Sherburne. The Secretary of the Interior did not make public many of his final decisions until the Congressional Oversight Hearings held September 16 and 23, 1982. Moreover, the Sampsel Report, which the Executive Branch contend satisfies their obligations under Section 2 of P.L. 96-217 was not submitted until October 21, 1982, making this case truly ripe at that time.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.170-171