| OCR Text |
Show 26 REPORT OF TEE SEO~TABY OF 1- ~TE&IOB I power to consider only claims arising under treaties or laws of Con-gress and could not go behind them to permit recovery of amounts in excess of those provided for therein; and that power to abrogate express provisions of the treaties and statutes is political and not judicial. During the year approximately 10 suits have been filed in the Federal Court for the Western District of Washington, claiming land on the Quinaielt Reservation, Wash., for about 45 children belonging to the Elliott and other related families. The cases have been head but no decisions have as yet been reported. The act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. L. 596), authorized certain squatters on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nev., to obtain patents by purchase of lands which they have used for approximately 25 years. Senate Bill 2081, Seventieth Congress, first sesGon, to authorize the issuance of patents on payment of $2.50 per acre instead of at the appraised valuetion, falled of enactment. Paymentfor the + lands has not yet been made in most instances and action has been instituted to obtain settlqment. The (United States C i u i t Court of Appeals of Philadelphia, Pa., in its decision of March 9, 1928, upheld the judgment of the Federal district court in a case involving the right of Canadian Indians to cross the international boundary ~into the United States without first obtaining a passport. The district court had held that the Indians had the right to cross freely between the United States I and Canada under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain of November 19,.1794 (8 Stat. L. 116), U. S. Ex. Rel. Paul Diabo v. John McCanless, 18 Fed. (2) 282. SUITS INSTITUTED AGAINST THE UNITED STATES 1 Suits not mentioned in the report for 1927 have been entered in the United States Court of Claims for the settlement of Indian claims, as follows: Assiniboine Tribe, Fort Belknap and Fort Peck Reservations. Mont.; petition Bed January 30, 1928. Black River, Saginaw and Swan Creek Bands of Chippewa of Michigan; petition filed June 30, 1927. Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma; suit Bed May 21, 1927. Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Wyoming, Montana, and OH& home; suits fled February 26 and April 13, 1927. Chippewa Tribes of Minnesota; suits filed May 5 and July 5,1927 Crow Tribe, Crow Reservation, Mont.; suit Bed June 13, 1927. 4 Delaware Tribe of Oklahoma; suits filed March 3, May 31, and June 2, 1927. Shoshone Tribe, Wind River Reservation, Wyo.; suit filed May 27, 1927. |
