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Argued May 11, 2020.
Decided July 9, 2020.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Ian H. Gershengorn , Washington, DC, Riyaz A. Kanji for Muscogee (Creek) Nation, as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, for Petitioner.
Solicitor General Mithun Mansinghani , Deputy Solicitor General Edwin S. Kneedler for the United States, as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, for Respondent.
JusticeGORSUCH delivered the opinion of the Court.
On the far end of the Trail of Tears was a promise. Forced to leave their ancestral lands in Georgia and Alabama, the Creek Nation received assurances that their new lands in the West would be secure forever. In exchange for ceding "all their land, East of the Mississippi river," the U. S. government...
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