Cherokee Nation & United States v. Whitmire
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. The facts,-which involve the construction of the various. treaties, acts of Congress and decisions of the Court of Claims in regard to the rights of Cherokee freedmen and their descendants to share in the distribution of tribal property, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
This appeal is prosecuted to review a supplemental decree of the Court of Claims enjoining and directing the Secretary of the Interior to enroll upon the final roll of the citizens of the Cherokee Nation for allotment of lands the names of certain persons and their descendants claiming rights as Cherokee freedmen, whose names were found upon the roll called the Kern-Clifton roll, which the decree adjudged was directed to be made by a former decree of the court. The names of those persons, who are appellees in this case, after investigation by the Secretary of the Interior, were found by him…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Kingman v. Western Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1898
- United States v. AdamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1868
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- Payne v. GarthCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1922
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