Scott v. United States
United States Court of Claims
• The Reporters'1 statement of tbe case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. During the year 1883, the Chiricahua Apache Indians were subjugated by the military forces of the United States and taken as prisoners of war, and while so held, to wit, on May, 17, 1885, a portion or minority of the tribe or baud, numbering 42 warriors and about 96 women and children, including-Gerónimo and other chiefs, broke away from their reservation and the…
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• The Reporters'1 statement of tbe case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. During the year 1883, the Chiricahua Apache Indians were subjugated by the military forces of the United States and taken as prisoners of war, and while so held, to wit, on May, 17, 1885, a portion or minority of the tribe or baud, numbering 42 warriors and about 96 women and children, including-Gerónimo and other chiefs, broke away from their reservation and the military authorities, and thereafter organized and confederated together under the leadership of Gerónimo for the purpose and…
1Opinion of the Court
Nott, Oh. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The year 1886 witnessed the last Indian war of this country, unless the single battle of Wounded Knee be regarded as a war. On the 4th of September of that year the last -war party of the Apaches surrendered in the Sierra Madre of Mexico to Oaptain Lawton, of the Fourth Cavalry, acting under the immediate orders of General Miles. This surrender closed an active campaign extending over a period of sixteen months. The military forces engaged at the time of the surrender consisted, on the part of the United States, of 42 companies of cavalry and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Woolverton v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1894
3Cited by2 opinions
- United States v. Fort Sill Apache Tribe of the State of OklahomaUnited States Court of Claims · 1976
- Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1973