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UNITED STATES v. MIL. LAC CHIPPEWAS

No. 736.

229 U.S. 498 (1913)

UNITED STATES v. MILLE LAC BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 9, 1913.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Adkins and Mr. George M. Anderson for the United States.

Mr. George B. Edgerton and Mr. F.W. Houghton, with whom Mr. C.E. Richardson, Mr. Harvey S. Clapp and Mr. Daniel B. Henderson were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was begun under the act of February 15, 1909, 35 Stat. 619, c. 126, which authorized the Court of Claims "to hear and determine a suit or suits to be brought by and on behalf of the Mille Lac Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota against the United States on account of losses sustained by them or the Chippewas of Minnesota by reason of the opening of the Mille Lac Reservation . . ...

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