Mille Lac Band of Chippewas v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of tbe case as found by tbe court: I. This claim was referred to tbe court by an act of Congress entitled “An act for tbe relief of tbe Mille Lac Band of Chippewa Indians in tbe State of Minnesota, and for other purposes,” approved February 15, 1909- (35 Stat. L., 619), which reads as follows: “Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress…
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of tbe case as found by tbe court: I. This claim was referred to tbe court by an act of Congress entitled “An act for tbe relief of tbe Mille Lac Band of Chippewa Indians in tbe State of Minnesota, and for other purposes,” approved February 15, 1909- (35 Stat. L., 619), which reads as follows: “Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Court of Claims be, and it is hereby, given jurisdiction to bear and determine a suit or suits to be…
1Opinion of the CourtBooth, J.
This case now comes before the court on the defendants’ motion for a new trial and the claimants’ motion to amend findings of fact.
The case came to the court under a special jurisdictional act approved February 15, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 619), as set forth in Finding I.
The claim is predicated upon certain rights alleged to have accrued to the claimant. Indians under the provisions of treaties executed in 1855, 1863, and 1864, having to do with the disposition of their landed interests, upon which they have resided since time immemorial. The claimants herein are a band of that formerly large and…
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