WEBB, District Judge.
This action was instituted by the United States to enjoin the defendants, Cherokee Indians, from trading on the lands occupied by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Swain County, without a license from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The complaint alleges that the United States is the owner in fee of these Indian lands and that the defendants are Indians of less than full blood in possession of a tract of land within the boundary occupied...
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