Task: songer_initiate

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. Your task is to identify what party initiated the appeal. For cases with cross appeals or multiple docket numbers, if the opinion does not explicitly indicate which appeal was filed first, assumes that the first litigant listed as the "appellant" or "petitioner" was the first to file the appeal. In federal habeas corpus petitions, consider the prisoner to be the plaintiff.

PER CURIAM.
Appellant, a member of the Angoon unit of Duk-la-wedi Indians in Alaska, filed a complaint on behalf of all the unit to recover money “received by the United States from the sale of timber . which receipts, in accordance with [a Joint Resolution of August 8, 1947, 61 Stat. 920] either are or should be maintained in a special account in the Treasury until the rights to the timber are finally determined.” The complaint alleges that the Angoon Indians owned the timberland and the timber. The District Court rightly dismissed the complaint as being in effect a suit against the United States. The United States has not consented to be sued on such a claim in the District Court.
Affirmed.

Question: What party initiated the appeal?
A. Original plaintiff
B. Original defendant
C. Federal agency representing plaintiff
D. Federal agency representing defendant
E. Intervenor
F. Not applicable
G. Not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A