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Solicitor Tarr Opinion--Pueblo Of Sandia Boundary, Ralph W. Tarr

Sandia Pueblo Mountain Claim

"'The Pueblo claims that approximately 10,000 acres of land were incorrectly excluded from a patent issued to the Pueblo by the United States in 1864 because the surveyor erred in not including all of the land originally granted the Pueblo by the Spanish in 1748. The major portion of the land claimed is managed by the United States Forest Service as parts of the Cibola National Forest and the Sandia Mountain Wilderness. The claimed area includes 665 acres of private inholdings (the ""inholdings"", the ""private inholders"", or the ""inholders""), as well as the Juan Tabo Recreation Area. The Pueblo requests …