Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This action was commenced by appellants in the .Court of Claims under the jurisdiction conferred upon that court by the following provision in the act of March 3, 1883, ch. 141, 22 Stat. 582, 585 : “ That the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians' is héreby authorized to institute a suit in the Court of Claims' against the United States to determine- the rights of the said band in and to the 'moneys, stock, and bonds held by the United States in…
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This action was commenced by appellants in the .Court of Claims under the jurisdiction conferred upon that court by the following provision in the act of March 3, 1883, ch. 141, 22 Stat. 582, 585 : “ That the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians' is héreby authorized to institute a suit in the Court of Claims' against the United States to determine- the rights of the said band in and to the 'moneys, stock, and bonds held by the United States in trust for the Cherokee Indians, arising out of the sales of lands lying west of the Mississippi River, and also in a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
This case comes before us on appeal from the Court of Claims. It was brought to determine the right of the petitioners, called the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, to a proportionate part of two funds held by the United States in trust for the Cherokee Nation. One of the funds was created by the treaty with the Nation made December 29, 1835, at New Echota, in Georgia, commuting certain annuities into the sum of $214,000. The other arose from sales of certain lands of the Nation lying west of the Mississippi River.
The suit by the petitioners was authorized by an act of Congress, and it is…
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