Ottawa & Chippewa Indians of Michigan v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. By the act of March 3, 1905, copied in paragraph one of the petition, the petitioners are authorized to file a petition in this court “ for the purpose of settling the question as to the ownership of the stocks, Government bonds, or moneys held in trust by the Government at the date of the treaty of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five,” and this court was “ granted…
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The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. By the act of March 3, 1905, copied in paragraph one of the petition, the petitioners are authorized to file a petition in this court “ for the purpose of settling the question as to the ownership of the stocks, Government bonds, or moneys held in trust by the Government at the date of the treaty of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five,” and this court was “ granted jurisdiction in law and in equity to render judgment upon said petition, and to pass upon and find, as a matter of law,…
1Opinion of the CourtBarney, J.
The claimants in this case on May 27,1836, together constituted one tribe of Indians then residing in the then Territory of Michigan, and on said date entered into a treaty with the United States, by the terms of which said tribe ceded certain lands to the United States, and in return for which the United States agreed to certain reservations for the Indians, the payment to them and their half-breed relatives of certain sums of money, and the payment of an annuity of $30,000. It should also be stated that said treaty contained other liabilities on the part of the United States to the Indians…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Boffinger v. TuyesSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Farrington v. HodgdonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- Pike v. McIntoshMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
- Erbacher v. SeefeldWisconsin Supreme Court · 1896
3Cited by5 opinions
- United States v. Mescalero Apache TribeUnited States Court of Claims · 1975
- Manchester Band of Pomo Indians, Inc. v. United StatesDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1973
- United States v. MichiganDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1979
- Menominee Tribe of Indians v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1944
- United States v. State of Mich.District Court, W.D. Michigan · 1979