realized it couldn't claim trust property. so then it comes down to two people. is it morris' fossil or black hills' institute fossil? every single filing the institute made, i really believed would win, because it was so clear, they had purchased it, he had accepted the check, he had been on videotape talking about it. it was very clear that he thought he had sold the fossil at the time. >> judge batty held that a fossil, unlike an archaeological find, had become -- the bones had become mineralized, therefore the fossil was land. an individual indian cannot sell land that the government holds in trust for him without the