Cherokee Nation v. Blackfeather

This case is similar to that just decided in which the same parties were appellants, and Charles Journey cake, Principal Chief, etc., defendant. The petition was filed under the authority of the same act of October 1,1890, c. 1249, 26 Stat. 636, and to enforce the claim of the Shawnee Indians domiciled in the Cherokee Nation to an equal interest in the Cherokee reservation and outlet, and the proceeds and profits thereof.

In pursuance of article XY of the treaty of July 19, 1866, 14 Stat. 799, 803, an agreement was, on June 7, 1869, entered into between the Shawnees and the Cherokee Nation,…