Chase v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals, which affirmed a decree of the District Court dismissing the bill in a suit brought by the appellant against the United States for an adjudication of his membership, in the Omaha Tribe of Indians with a right to select an allotment out of the lands of the Omaha Reservation. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals, which affirmed a decree of the District Court dismissing the bill in a suit brought by the appellant against the United States for an adjudication of his membership, in the Omaha Tribe of Indians with a right to select an allotment out of the lands of the Omaha Reservation. The facts are stated in the opinion. The federal court has jurisdiction of suits by persons of Indian blood claiming right to allotment of Indian lands. The appellant was born into a right to allotment…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
Suit to adjudge Hiram Chase, Jr., a member of the Omaha Tribe of Indians and to have a right to select eighty acres for an allotment out of the lands of the Omaha Reservation, the selection having been denied by the Secretary of the Interior.
The right of selection depends upon the effect of certain treaties between the Omaha Tribe and the United States and certain acts of Congress.
The treaties were made in 1854 and in 1865, 10 Stat. 1043,14 Stat. 667, and by them the Indians ceded certain lands to the United States and certain other lands were retained constituting the Reservation with which…
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