Foster v. Board of County Commissioners of Blue Earth County
Supreme Court of Minnesota
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OE BLUE EARTH COUNTY. Tbe complaint of the Plaintiff below, Henry Poster, alleges that daring the year 1856, and the month of January, 1857,. be was engaged in trading with the Indians, under a license from the United States ; that he had a trading establishment stocked with goods, at the Winnebago Agency, situate upon and in tlie Winnebago Reservation, as reserved and set apart by treaty between the United States and the Winnebago Indians,…
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OE BLUE EARTH COUNTY. Tbe complaint of the Plaintiff below, Henry Poster, alleges that daring the year 1856, and the month of January, 1857,. be was engaged in trading with the Indians, under a license from the United States ; that he had a trading establishment stocked with goods, at the Winnebago Agency, situate upon and in tlie Winnebago Reservation, as reserved and set apart by treaty between the United States and the Winnebago Indians, dated'March 1st, 1855. That while he was so trading,' the county of Bine Earth assessed upon the stock in trade, being upon…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court
ElaNdeau, J.
In deciding this -question it will be unnecessary to give more than a brief historical sketch of the' relations which the Indians within the limits of the United States and Territories, have sustained to the government. Previous to the American Devolution, Great Britain considered the Indians as nations capable of maintaining *144tbe relations of peace and war; of governing themselves under her protection ; and she made treaties with them, the obligation of which she acknowledged. When the revolution broke out it was a matter of great solicitude to the American Congress…
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- M'culloch v. State of MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1819
- Worcester v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1832
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- Moon v. AverySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
- Swift v. SutphinU.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois · 1889
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