Red Bird v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. The subject matter of .this suit consists of 4,420,406 acres of land in' the Cherokee country about to be allotted among the Cherokee people entitled to participateyin the distribution of the common property of the Cherokee Nation. The case was transmitted to' the Court of Claims by the Secretary of the.
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APPEALS FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. The subject matter of .this suit consists of 4,420,406 acres of land in' the Cherokee country about to be allotted among the Cherokee people entitled to participateyin the distribution of the common property of the Cherokee Nation. The case was transmitted to' the Court of Claims by the Secretary of the. Interior on the twenty-fourth of February, 1903, the nature of the controversy being thus staoed: “A-controversy has arisen as to the ;.;• hi..’ rf '¡ají sons intermarried with Cherokee citizens, and a protest has been filed with this Department on behalf of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
Article 1 of the treaty of 1846 declared “ that the lands now occupied by the Cherokee Nation shall be secured to the *81whole Cherokee people for their common use and benefit,” and article 4, that these lands “shall be and remain the common property of the whole Cherokee people.”
Section 2 of article 1 of the Cherokee’ constitution (1839) provided that “the lands of the Cherokee Nation shall remain common property.”
The amendments of 1866 (Art. 1, sec. 2) declared that the lands of the Cherokee Nation “shall remain common property until the National Council shall request the survey and allotment…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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