Opinion ID: 4526620
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Heading: The Phoenix Indian School

Text: From its inception in 1891, “an off-reservation federal Indian elementary and secondary boarding school” (“Phoenix Indian School”) was “operated by” the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (“DOI”) Bureau of Indian Affairs, on land owned by the Government in Phoenix, Arizona. J.A. 37– 38. The Phoenix Indian School “consisted of [thirty-four] buildings on over [one-hundred] acres located in the heart Tribal Council of Ariz., 140 Fed. Cl. at 460, that decision is not before us on appeal, see generally Appellant’s Br. See Appellee’s Br. 16 n.6 (“Claim III . . . is pending below and is not part of the current appeal.”); see also Spectrum Pharm., Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., 802 F.3d 1326, 1333 (Fed. Cir. 2015) (explaining that “we will only address the issues raised [on appeal]”). 3 Because “this case was dismissed on the pleadings, for the purposes of this appeal, we must take the facts in the [C]omplaint as true.” Prasco, LLC v. Medicis Pharm. Corp., 537 F.3d 1329, 1334 (Fed. Cir. 2008). Moreover, for purposes of its Motion to Dismiss, the Government did not dispute the facts asserted by ITCA in the Complaint. See Motion to Dismiss Second Amended Complaint at 3 n.1, Inter-Tribal Council of Ariz., Inc. v. United States, No. 1:15cv-00342-NBF (Fed. Cl. May 16, 2018), ECF No. 59 (“For purposes of this brief only, the factual allegations of the . . . [C]omplaint are assumed to be true.”). Thus, the Complaint “sets forth the uncontested factual backdrop for this appeal. We recite here the facts pertinent to the issue[s] before us.” Fid. & Guar. Ins. Underwriters, Inc. v. United States, 805 F.3d 1082, 1084 (Fed. Cir. 2015). Case: 19-1758 Document: 29 Page: 4 Filed: 04/17/2020 4 INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL OF AZ v. UNITED STATES of central Phoenix.” J.A. 38. “While open to members of tribes nationwide, the Phoenix Indian School primarily served tribes located in Arizona.” J.A. 38. In 1987, as part of a larger movement to close boarding schools for students of Indian tribes, J.A. 38, the Government “determined that the Phoenix Indian School was no longer required or needed,” J.A. 40, and the school “was closed in 1990,” J.A. 50; see AFLEA § 404(a) (requiring the U.S. Secretary of the Interior (“Secretary”) to “close the Phoenix Indian . . . School . . . no earlier than June 1, 1990, and no later than September 1, 1990”); see also id. § 401(18) (“‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of the Interior.”).