SNAKE OR PIUTE INDIANS, ETC. v. United States

This is an appeal by certain bands or tribe of Snake or Piute Indians of the former Malheur Reservation in Oregon, from a final determination of the Indian Claims Commission adverse to appellant’s claim for relief. Appellant Indians are the descendants of seven bands of Snake or Piute Indians, of which We-You-We-Wa appears to have been the principal Chief, with which bands or “Tribe” a treaty, which was never ratified or submitted for ratification, was entered into, under circumstances which will be hereinafter discussed, on December 10, 1868, by J. W. Perit Huntington, Superintendent of…