Opis: Brief and Argument of Harry J. Cantwell of Crews Cantwell, Attorneys-at-Law, St. Louis (Classic Reprint) - Cantwell Harry James

Excerpt from Brief and Argument of Harry J. Cantwell of Crews Cantwell, Attorneys-at-Law, St. Louis

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee:

I appear for a number of persons who are enrolled upon the so-called "Freedmen" rolls of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes. The classification of their names upon such rolls limits their rights, under the construction placed upon the Acts of Congress by the Interior Department and by the Dawes Commission "to land equal in value to 40 acres of the average allotable land of the Choctaws and Chickasaws Nations," when it is self-evident that most of the persons so classified were never, and could not have been, "Freedmen of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes," but are in fact, and under the laws of the United States and the tribes, full members and citizens of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes; and I assert it was the intention of Congress to give these people full and equal rights with other members of the tribe, which intention has been nullified by erroneous construction of the intent of the laws. These people are citizens of the Choctaw-Chickasaw tribes by birth, by the exercise of tribal rights, by having been subject to tribal jurisdiction and by the performance of tribal duties, and many of them it is generally conceded, have actually a preponderance of actual Indian blood. I present to the committee a copy of a memorial lately presented to the President of the United States by J. Milton Turner and Wilbur E. King, together with a letter of the President, transmitting a communication of the Secretary of the Interior replying to the memorial, accompanied by the text of a number of decisions of the Department, and the Attorney General.

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Szczegóły: Brief and Argument of Harry J. Cantwell of Crews Cantwell, Attorneys-at-Law, St. Louis (Classic Reprint) - Cantwell Harry James

Nazwa: Brief and Argument of Harry J. Cantwell of Crews Cantwell, Attorneys-at-Law, St. Louis (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Cantwell Harry James
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781331133360
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 96
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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