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UNITED STATES v. OMAHA TRIBE OF INDIANS

Nos. 243, 244.

253 U.S. 275 (1920)

UNITED STATES v. OMAHA TRIBE OF INDIANS. OMAHA TRIBE OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1920.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Davis, with whom Mr. Geo. T. Stormont was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Charles H. Merillat, with whom Mr. Charles J. Kappler and Mr. Hiram Chase were on the brief, for the Omaha Tribe of Indians.

MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

We have here an appeal and a cross-appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims in a suit brought under the Act of June 22, 1910, c. 313, 36 Stat. 580, which conferred upon that court jurisdiction to hear and determine "all claims of whatsoever nature which the Omaha tribe of Indians may have or claim to have against the United States . . . under the treaty between the United States and the said tribe of Indians...

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