Woodbury v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota.
1Opinion of the Court
.AMIDON, District Judge.
The complainant here and below claims that she has been unlawfully denied an allotment of land on the White Earth Indian reservation, and brings this suit under the act of February 6, 1901, c. 217, 31 Stat. 760, to have her right established and enforced. The facts out of which the controversy arises are as follows:
By treaty with the Chippewa Indians, bearing date March 19, 1867 (16 Stat. 719), the White Earth Indian reservation was set apart for their exclusive occupancy, and provision was also made that, whenever any member of the tribe should have 10 acres of land…
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