Mille Lac Band of Chippewas v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. This claim was referred to the court by an act of Congress entitled t£ An act for the relief of the Mille Lac Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, and for other purposes,” approved February 15, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 619), which reads as follows: “Be it enaeted- by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,…
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. This claim was referred to the court by an act of Congress entitled t£ An act for the relief of the Mille Lac Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, and for other purposes,” approved February 15, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 619), which reads as follows: “Be it enaeted- by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Court of Claims be, and it is hereby, given jurisdiction to hear and determine a suit, or suits to be brought by…
1Opinion of the CourtBooth, J.
This case comes to the court under a special jurisdictional act approved February 15, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 619), as set forth in Finding I.
The claim is predicated upon certain rights alleged to have accrued to the claimant Indians under the provisions of treaties executed in 1855, 1863, and 1864, having to do with the disposition of their landed interests, upon which they have resided since time immemorial. The claimants herein are a band of that formerly large and powerful tribe of Ojibwa (now known as Chippewa) Indians, the largest and most important tribe of the Algonquian stock, who…
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