Wichita and Affiliated Bands: Hearing[s] Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, Second Session on H. R. 6044. January 9 and March 9, 1922U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - 69 páginas |
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... Hayden and myself . We are here this morning for the purpose of giving it further discussion so that we can ascertain , for the benefit of all the members of the committee , the details of this claim and its ramifications . I am going ...
... Hayden and myself . We are here this morning for the purpose of giving it further discussion so that we can ascertain , for the benefit of all the members of the committee , the details of this claim and its ramifications . I am going ...
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... HAYDEN . In that regard are there any court decisions that hold that because a tribe of Indians occupied a certain scope of country that they had what we might now determine a fee simple title to it and were , therefore , entitled to ...
... HAYDEN . In that regard are there any court decisions that hold that because a tribe of Indians occupied a certain scope of country that they had what we might now determine a fee simple title to it and were , therefore , entitled to ...
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... Hayden , that you will find that question dis- cussed thoroughly in the United States Reports No. 179 , in the case of the United States v . the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations et al . , page 495 . Mr. HAYDEN . In that case the Indians ...
... Hayden , that you will find that question dis- cussed thoroughly in the United States Reports No. 179 , in the case of the United States v . the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations et al . , page 495 . Mr. HAYDEN . In that case the Indians ...
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... HAYDEN . In that regard I would like to know how many tribes are seeking authority to file similar suits to this tribe ? Mr. MERITT . Probably 20 different tribes are alleging claims against the Govern- ment . Mr. HAYDEN . Then , if we ...
... HAYDEN . In that regard I would like to know how many tribes are seeking authority to file similar suits to this tribe ? Mr. MERITT . Probably 20 different tribes are alleging claims against the Govern- ment . Mr. HAYDEN . Then , if we ...
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... HAYDEN . Your thought is like mine , to make it a prima facie case . The CHAIRMAN . When we pass such a bill it simply sets a lot of lawyers at work digging out claims . I have seen a lot of that in six or seven years on this committee ...
... HAYDEN . Your thought is like mine , to make it a prima facie case . The CHAIRMAN . When we pass such a bill it simply sets a lot of lawyers at work digging out claims . I have seen a lot of that in six or seven years on this committee ...
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aboriginal owners aboriginal ownership acres act of Congress affidavits affiliated bands agreement allotted amount Anadarko Antelope Hills Arbuckle attorneys bands of Indians BRARY Brazos Caddo County Canadian River ceded cession CHAIRMAN Cherokee Chickasaw Nations chief Choctaws and Chickasaws Comanches Committee on Indian compensation Cong CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Court of Claims Cross Timbers decision Delaware determine entitled fact GENSMAN granted Greer County HAYDEN Indian Affairs Indian claims Indian title June jurisdictional act jurisdictional bills Keechies Kiowa leased district LEATHERWOOD LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS lived matter meridian MERITT Nation of Indians ninety-eighth Okla Oklahoma possessory right Quapaws question Red River referred right to prefer ROACH Senate Stat statement submitted Supreme Court surplus land SWANK sworn Tawakonies territory Texas treaty tribal tribe of Indians Wacoes Washington Wichita and affiliated Wichita Indians Wichita Mountains Wichita Nation Association Wichita Reservation Wichita village
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Página 9 - That the people inhabiting said proposed states do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof, and to all lands lying within said limits owned or held by any Indian or Indian tribes; and that until the title thereto shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States...
Página 22 - Commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Washita River, where the ninety-eighth meridian of west longitude crosses the same, thence up the middle of the main channel of said river to the line of 98° 40...
Página 26 - Council, strictly enjoin and require, that no private Person do presume to make any Purchase from the said Indians of any Lands reserved to the said Indians, within those parts of our Colonies where We have thought proper to allow Settlement...
Página 26 - Company; as also all the lands and territories lying to the westward of the sources of the rivers which fall into the sea from the west and northwest...
Página 27 - The United States, then, have unequivocally acceded to that great and broad rule by which its civilized inhabitants now hold this country. They hold, and assert in themselves, the title by which it was acquired.
Página 45 - It is further agreed that there shall be reserved to said Indians the right to prefer against the United States any and every claim that they may believe they have the right to prefer, save and except any claim to the tract of country described in the first article of this agreement.
Página 26 - Settlement ; but that, if at any Time any of the said Indians should be inclined to dispose of the said Lands, the same shall be Purchased only for Us, in our Name, at some public Meeting or Assembly of the said Indians, to be held for that Purpose by the Governor or Commander in Chief of our Colony respectively within which they shall lie...
Página 26 - And We do further declare it to be our Royal will and pleasure, for the present, as aforesaid, to reserve under our sovereignty, protection, and dominion, for the...
Página 28 - In other words, the United States retained the legal title, giving the Indian allottee a paper or writing,, improperly called a patent, showing that at a particular time in the future, unless it was extended by the President, he would be entitled to a regular patent conveying the fee. This interpretation of the statute is in harmony with the explicit declaration that any conveyance of the land, or any contract touching the same, while the United States held the title in trust, should be absolutely...
Página 10 - Though the Indians are acknowledged to have an unquestionable, and heretofore unquestioned, right to the lands they occupy, until that right shall be extinguished by a voluntary cession to our Government, yet it may well be doubted whether those tribes which reside within the acknowledged boundaries of the United States can with strict accuracy be denominated foreign nations. They may more correctly, perhaps, be denominated domestic dependent nations. They...