UNITED STATES v. NEW YORK INDIANS

No. 697.

173 U.S. 464 (1899)

UNITED STATES v. NEW YORK INDIANS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 20, 1899.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Solicitor General, Mr. Assistant Attorney General Pradt and Mr. Charles C. Binney for the United States.

Mr. Jonas H. McGowan and Mr. Guion Miller for the New York Indians.


MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

As a disposition of either one of these motions will practically dispose of the other, both may properly be considered together.

The preamble to the treaty of Buffalo Creek of January 28, 1838, 7 Stat. 550, recites that "the following articles of a treaty are entered into between the United States of America and the several tribes of the New York Indians, the names of whose chiefs...

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