Skelton v. Dill
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA. The facts, which involve the construction of the Creek Indian allotment statutes and the effect of the provisions regarding restrictions on alienation of allotments and their applicability to allotments made to deceased members of the tribe, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
Whether an allotment of lands in the Creek.Nation which was made on behalf of Archie Hamby, a Creek child . then deceased, passed the lands to his heirs free from restrictions upon alienation is the Federal question in this casé. The facts out of which the question arises are these: Archie Hamby was born in February, 1900, and died in July, 1901, being survived by his parents and by at least one sister. His mother was a Creek woman, duly enrolled as such in 1895, and his father was a white man not entitled to enrollment. Two or three years after the child’s death his name was regularly placed…
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