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TURNER v. UNITED STATES

No. 33.

248 U.S. 354 (1919)

39 S.Ct. 109

63 L.Ed. 291

TURNER v. UNITED STATES AND CREEK NATION OF INDIANS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Chas. H. Merillat, with whom Mr. Chas. J. Kappler was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Thompson and Mr. George M. Anderson, for the United States, submitted.

Mr. James C. Davis, for the Creek Nation of Indians, submitted.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

The Creek or Muskogee Nation or Tribe of Indians had, in 1890, a population of 15,000. Subject to the control of Congress, they then exercised within a defined territory the powers of a sovereign people; having a tribal organization, their own system of laws, and a government with the usual branches, executive, legislative, and judicial. The territory was divided into...

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