Eastern or Emigrant Cherokees v. United States

The plaintiffs in their group capacity were one of the parties to the treaty of 1846 (9 Stat. 871) between the United States and the Cherokee Nation of Indians, the Western or Old Settler Cherokees being the other party. The plaintiffs under the terms of the jurisdictional act are authorized to institute suit in their own name, or to act jointly with the Western or Old Settler Cherokees, or to intervene in any suit or suits now pending in the court under *198the authority of the act of Congress of March 19, 1924 (43 Stat. 21, 28), in which the Cherokee Nation is party plaintiff and the United…