Medawakanton v. United States

By the act of March 4, 1917, 39 Stat. 1195, jurisdiction is conferred on this court to render judgment for any balance that may be found due the Medawakanton and Wahpakoota Bands of Sioux Indians, “ otherwise known as Santee Sioux Indians,” upon certain indicated matters under the terms and provisions of the jurisdictional act. When this act was passed, the case of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Sioux, 42 C. Cls. 416, 208 U. S. 561, had been decided, and the act there involved and the court’s construction of it were therefore before Congress and were considered by its committees. This…