Cherokee Nation v. United States

Per Curiam :

This is an appeal from a decision of the Indian Claims Commission (12 Ind. Cl. Comm. 570 (1968)) dismissing appellant’s suit under Section 2 (3) and (5) of the Indian Claims Commission Act, 25 U.S.C. § 70a, for revision of that part of the Treaty of July 19,1866,14 Stat. 799, which provided that former Cherokee slaves (the so-called Cherokee freedmen) should have all the rights of native Cherokees. The claim was that (a) the Cherokee Nation agreed to this portion of the treaty as a result of duress exerted by the agents of the Federal Grovernment; (b) the Nation acted under a…