United States v. Rolfson

WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

It is alleged that the plaintiffs and appellees are part Indian blood of the Quinaielt Indian Tribe residing in Grays Harbor county; that plaintiffs have always been recognized as such by the Quinaielt Indians; that they belong to the Lower Chehalis branch of the Quinaielt Tribe; that said plaintiffs belong to and are associated with and affiliated with the associated bands and tribes of fish-eating Indians of the Pacific Coast and Western Washington. The court awarded the allotments prayed for and thus, in effect, found that the plaintiffs were Lower Chehalis Indians.…