United States v. Waller
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion. The preexisting national guardianship over mixed-blood Indians of .the White Earth Reservation was not terminated by the Clapp Amendment. Only those mixed bloods who actually lived the Indian .tribal life were recognized as members of the tribe.
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CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion. The preexisting national guardianship over mixed-blood Indians of .the White Earth Reservation was not terminated by the Clapp Amendment. Only those mixed bloods who actually lived the Indian .tribal life were recognized as members of the tribe. Treaty of August 2, 1847, 9 Stat. 904, 905; Treaty of March 19, 1867, 16 Stat. 719, 720. The Treaty of 1867 treated full bloods and mixed bloods alike as dependent Indians. Neither the general allotment act of February 8, 1887, 24 Stat. 388, nor…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
This case is here upon, a certificate from the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Éighth Circuit, from which it appears that the United States brought a suit in the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota for the purpose of cancelling and annulling a warranty timber deed from Ah-be-daun-ah-quod and Ah-sum, Indian allottees on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, to Mamie S. Waller, dated November 4, 1907, and a certain warranty deed from the same Indians to L. S. Waller, dated January 6, 1908. The District Court dismissed the bill on the ground that the plaintiff…
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