McCurdy v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brandeis
The Osage Tribe of Indians consisted in 1906 of two thousand persons. Their reservation, located in Oklahoma Territory between the Arkansas River and the Kansas state line, contained about a million and a half acres of fertile well-watered prairie land and of heavily timbered hill lands, largely underlaid with petroleum, natural gas, •coal and other minerals. At that time the United States held for the tribe a trust fund of. $8,373,658.54, received under various, treaties as compensation for relinquishing other lands. The annual income of the tribe from interest ón this trust fund and from…
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