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CHEROKEE NATION v. BLACKFEATHER

No. 671.

155 U.S. 218 (1894)

CHEROKEE NATION v. BLACKFEATHER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 19, 1894.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Dodge for the United States, submitted on his brief.

Mr. Charles A. Maxwell and Mr. George S. Chase for the Cherokee Nation, appellant, submitted on their brief.

Mr. Charles Brownell for Blackfeather, appellee.

MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is similar to that just decided in which the same parties were appellants, and Charles Journeycake, Principal Chief, etc., defendant. The petition was filed under the authority of the same act of October 1, 1890, c. 1249, 26 Stat. 636, and to enforce the claim of the Shawnee Indians domiciled in the Cherokee Nation to an equal interest in the Cherokee reservation...

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