Choteau v. Burnet

The petitioner is a member of the Osage tribe of Indians, duly enrolled as such under the Act of June 28, 1906, 1 and holds a certificate of competency issued March 5, 1910, pursuant to that Act. He owns his own original allotment of the tribal lands, and has inherited from a deceased member a one-half interest in the latter’s allotment, but nothing in this case turns on his ownership of these lands. He also owns his own original share in the tribal revenues, and, by inheritance from a deceased member, one-half of the interest in those revenues to which that member would be entitled if living.