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CREEK NATION v. UNITED STATES

No. 321.

318 U.S. 629 (1943)

63 S.Ct. 784

87 L.Ed. 1046

CREEK NATION v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 5, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Paul M. Niebell, with whom Messrs. C. Maurice Weidemeyer and W.W. Pryor were on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Archibald Cox, with whom Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Littell, and Messrs. Vernon L. Wilkinson and Dwight D. Doty were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

These actions were originally brought in 1926 under special jurisdictional acts of 1924, which gave the Court of Claims jurisdiction over claims under "any treaty or agreement between the United States" and these tribes.1 The actions were based on a contention that the United States had breached its obligation as a guardian of its Indian wards...

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