Mississippi Choctaw Indians Jurisdictional Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee [of the Committee] on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session, on S. 1478, Conferring Jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to Hear and Determine the Claims of the Choctaw Indians of the State of Mississippi. March 21 and 28, 1938U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938 - 72 עמודים |
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act of Congress act of June agreement allotments of land amendment annuity approved April 28 article 14 article XIV August 14 authority bill capita Chairman Chickasaw Nations Choctaw and Chickasaw Choctaw citizen Choctaw country Choctaw Nation Choctaws in Mississippi citizenship rolls claimants COLLINS Commissioner contract Court of Claims Curtis Act Dancing Rabbit Creek Dawes Commission DICKSTEIN DIMOND fact February 14 final rolls Five Civilized Tribes full-blood Choctaw full-blood Mississippi Choctaws funds Government hear and determine Indian Affairs Indian Territory Indians who remained individuals Interior Department judgment June 28 lands in Mississippi large number Leake County legislation living in Mississippi March McKennon roll ment Meridian Missis Mississippi Choctaw Indians notice persons petition plaintiff REEVES remained in Mississippi representatives reservation RHODES RICHARDSON roll of identified RYAN scrip Secretary Senate September 27 severalty status subcommittee treaty of 1830 Treaty of Dancing tribal property United
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עמוד 27 - The petition shall be verified by the attorney or attorneys employed to prosecute such claim or claims under contract approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior...
עמוד 45 - If courts were permitted to indulge their sympathies, a case better calculated to excite them can scarcely be imagined. A people once numerous, powerful, and truly independent, found by our ancestors in the quiet and uncontrolled possession of an ample domain, gradually sinking beneath our superior policy, our arts, and our arms, have yielded their lands by successive treaties, each of which contains a solemn guarantee of the residue, until they retain no more of their formerly extensive territory...
עמוד 28 - The United States under a grant specially to be made by the President of the U. 8., shall cause to be conveyed to the Choctaw Nation a tract of country west of the Mississippi River, in fee simple to them and their descendants, to inure to them while they shall exist as a nation and live on it...
עמוד 35 - That the Commission appointed to negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory shall examine and report to Congress whether the Mississippi Choctaws under their treaties are not entitled to all the rights of Choctaw citizenship except an interest in the Choctaw annuities...
עמוד 31 - Tribes, as soon as practicable after the approval by the Secretary of the Interior of his enrollment as herein provided, land equal in value to three hundred and twenty acres of the average allotable land of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations...
עמוד 18 - States by either party as in other cases, notwithstanding the lapse of time or statutes of limitation, to hear, examine, and adjudicate and render judgment in any and all legal and equitable claims arising under or growing out of the...
עמוד 45 - They occupy a territory to which we assert a title independent of their will, which must take effect in point of possession when their right of possession ceases. Meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage. Their relation to the United States resembles that of a ward to his guardian.
עמוד 29 - People the jurisdiction and government of all the persons and property that may be within their limits west, so that no Territory or State shall ever have a right to pass laws for the government of the Choctaw Nation of Red People and their descendants; and that no part of the land granted them shall ever be embraced in any Territory or State...
עמוד 28 - Official letters, papers, documents, and public records, or certified copies thereof, may be used in evidence, and the departments of the Government shall give...
עמוד 34 - CONCLUSION OF LAW Upon the foregoing special findings of fact, which are made a part of the judgment herein, the court decides as a conclusion of law that the plaintiff is not entitled to recover and his petition is dismissed.