 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1956 - 1010 pages
...United States. In addition, the court said : "• • • the right of the Indians to their occupancy is as sacred as that of the United States to the fee, bat it is only a right of occupancy. The potsession, when abandoned 1>y the Indian*, attaehe* itself... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1878 - 858 pages
...this point had never been doubted. But, added the court, " the right of the Indians to their occupancy is as sacred as that of the United States to the fee, but it is only a right of occupancy. The possession, when abandoned by the Indians, attaches itself... | |
 | 1907 - 2136 pages
...court, speaking through Mr. Chief Justice Waite, says: "The right of the Indians to their occupancy Is as sacred as that of the United States to the fee, but It Is only a right of occupancy." Yet later, in Beecher v. Wetherby, 95 US 517, 525, 24 L. Ed.... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - 1881 - 790 pages
...United States has twice within the last ten years declared the right of the Indians to their occupancy is as sacred as that of the United States to the fee. ( United States v. Cook, 19 Wall., 593, top ; Beecher v. Wetherby, 96 US, 526, top.) lu delivering... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - 1881 - 792 pages
...United States has twice within the last ten years declared the right of the Indians to their occupancy is as sacred as that of the United States to the fee. ( United States v. Cook, 19 Wall., 593, top ; Beecher v. Wetherby, 95 U. 8., 526, top.) In delivering... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1882 - 1020 pages
...United States has* twice within the last ton years declared "the right of the Indians to their occupancy is as sacred as that of the United States to the fee." (United States vs. Cook, 19 Wait,, 593, top; Beecher re. Wctherby, 95 US, 526, top.) In delivering... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1885 - 914 pages
...been doubted. 1 Kent, 257; Worcester v. Go., 6 Pet, 580. The right of the Indians to their occupancy is as sacred 'as that of the United States to the fee, but it is only aright of occupancy. Cherokee Nat. v. Qa. , 5 Pet. , 48. The possession, when abandoned... | |
 | District of Columbia. Court of Appeals - 1902 - 662 pages
...treaty provisions under which such lands were acquired. The right of the Indians as to their occupancy is as sacred as that of the United States to the fee." We hold that it is not a judicial question of due process of law, to be determined by the courts, but... | |
 | United States. General Land Office - 1897 - 168 pages
...Mclntosh.* The authority of that case has never been doubted. t The right of the Indians to their occupancy is as sacred as that of the United States to the fee, but it is only a right of occupancy.! The possession when abandoned by the Indians attaches itself... | |
 | 1902 - 680 pages
...treaties regarding lands must be respected, and that " the right of the Indians as to their occupancy is as sacred as that of the United States to the fee." The Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache tribes applied to the Courts of the District of Columbia for an injunction... | |
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The right of the Indians to the occupancy of the lands pledged to them may be one of occupancy only, but it is 'as sacred as that of the United States to the fee. 
