Keith v. United States
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from the District Court of Canadian County; "before Jno. E. Burford, District Judge. Action by Frank Keith against the United States and another. STATEMENT OF THE CASE.
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Error from the District Court of Canadian County; "before Jno. E. Burford, District Judge. Action by Frank Keith against the United States and another. STATEMENT OF THE CASE. The amended petition in this case stated that the plaintiff was born in the Arapahoe tribe of Indians, from a marriage between a white father, adopted into the tribe when a child, and a half-breed Indian woman; that the parents had lived with the tribe for years, and had been treated with as members of the tribe, and enjoyed all' the rights of an Indian member of the tribe, under the treaties made by the United States…
1Opinion of the Court
•Opinion of the court by
McAtee, J.:
The law of the United States under which the plaintiff asserts his rights here, and which wras ■enacted on February 8, 1887, and is to be found in 1 Supp. Rev. St. U. S. p. 534, sec. 4, reads as follows: “Where any Indian not residing upon a reservation * * shall make settlement upon any surveyed or unsurveyed lands of the United States not otherwise appropriated, 'he or ,sbe shall be entitled, upon application to the local land office for the district in which the lands are located, to have the same allotted to him or her, and to his or her •children, in…
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