Goodrum v. Buffalo
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the United States Court of Appeals in the Indian Territory. This is an action of ejectment, instituted by the defendant in error, Arthur Buffalo, a minor, by J. F. Bobinson, his guardian, against the plaintiffs in error, for the recovery of certain lands in the Quapaw reservation in the Indian Territory.
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In Error to the United States Court of Appeals in the Indian Territory. This is an action of ejectment, instituted by the defendant in error, Arthur Buffalo, a minor, by J. F. Bobinson, his guardian, against the plaintiffs in error, for the recovery of certain lands in the Quapaw reservation in the Indian Territory. The title of the defendant in error was derived as follows; On September 26, 1896, a patent was issued by the United States to John Medicine, a Quapaw, as an allottee of the reservation lands of said tribe of Indians. Said John Medicine died in 1896, leaving as his sole surviving…
1Opinion of the CourtPhilips, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The questions presented for decision are of great public importance, and are such as to demand definite determination. The history of the relation of the United States government toward the reservation lands of the Indians, both as to their tribal and individual status and rights, shows that because of the limited qualification of the Indians to exer-ercise the functions of self-government and to appreciate and preserve their individual property interests, so as to become self-supporting- and' cease to be a charge and burden to the national government, the…
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