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• holding that judicial notice of historical evidence is admissible when there is “no dispute as to the authenticity of such materials and judicial notice is limited to law, legislative facts, or factual matters that are incontrovertible”
• reversing district court’s grant of motion to dismiss because court improperly took judicial notice of disputed issues of fact contained in historical sources
• “Defenses [in Indian claim cases] based upon ... state statutes of limitations have been consistently rejected.”
• to survive a motion to dismiss plaintiff must allege facts from which it could reasonably be inferred that parties’ agreement meant what plaintiff says it' meant
• “Indian land claims have traditionally been asserted in the courts of this country for resolution”
• “When there is no dispute as to the authenticity of such [historical evidence] materials and judicial notice is limited to law, legislative facts, or factual matters that are incontrovertible, such notice is admissible.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).