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UNITED STATES v. CHOCTAW & c. NATIONS

Nos. 88, 89, 90.

179 U.S. 494 (1900)

21 S.Ct. 149

45 L.Ed. 291

UNITED STATES v. CHOCTAW NATION AND CHICKASAW NATION. WICHITA AND AFFILIATED BANDS OF INDIANS v. CHOCTAW NATION, CHICKASAW NATION AND UNITED STATES. CHOCTAW NATION AND CHICKASAW NATION v. UNITED STATES AND WICHITA AND AFFILIATED BANDS OF INDIANS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 10, 1900.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George T. Barnes and Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson for the Choctaw Nation.

Mr. Philip Walker and Mr. Andrew A. Lipscomb for the Wichita and Affiliated Bands of Indians. Mr. Josiah M. Vale and Mr. William C. Shelley were on their brief.

Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Charles C. Binney for the United States.

Mr. Halbert E. Paine for the Chickasaw Nation. Mr. Robert L. Owen filed a brief on behalf of the Choctaw Nation.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

On the 4th day of June, 1891, an agreement was entered into between commissioners on behalf of the United States and the Wichita and Affiliated Bands of Indians, in the Indian Territory, whereby those Indians did "cede, convey, transfer, relinquish, forever and absolutely, without any reservation whatever," to the United States "all their claim, title and interest of every kind and character" to the land embraced...

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