In re Patterson

This is an application for an order directing that an alternative order of mandamus be issued requiring the above-named defendants to enroll the petitioner as a member of the Seneca Nation of American Indians, and to require said defendants to grant said petitioner all of the rights of person and property which a member of said nation has and enjoys.

The Seneca Nation of Indians reside on the Allegany, Cattaraugus and Oil Spring Reservations in the county of Erie, exercising certain attributes of sovereignty or governmental powers *393under a charter or constitution approved and granted by the…