...Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognised as an independent nation, tribe, or power with whom...Indian nation or tribe prior to March 3, 1871, shall be hereby invalidated or impaired. Whenever the tribal organisation of any Indian tribe is in actual hostility...

...of Congress approved Marcli 3, 1871, provides " that hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within tlic territory of the United States shall be acknowledged...power with whom the United States may contract by treaty."1 Since that time Agreements, substantially like treaties, have been made with different tribes,...

...Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognised as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom...with any such Indian nation or tribe prior to March 3rd, 1871, shall be hereby invalidated or impaired " (a). The Indians are, however, protected in the...

...Rev. Stat., § 1999. "The provision of the act of Congress of March 3, 1871, ch. 120, that 'hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of...with whom the United States may contract by treaty,' is coupled with a provision that the obligation of any treaty already lawfully made is not to be thereby...

...at all, only as a fiction of law. On March 3, 1871, congress passed an act which reads as follows: "No Indian nation or tribe within the territory of...with whom the United States may contract by treaty" — saving, however, the obligation of previous treaties. Whatever may be said of this act of congress...

...trea- with Indian tribes, down to the time when, Ue8- in 1871, Congress declared that, " Hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of...with whom the United States may contract by treaty." These would hare seemed bold words, the very tallest of " tall talk," to Anthony Wayne. Times had,...

...one of which was incorporated in the Revised Statutes. " (a) A statute of March 3, 1871, reads : ' Xo Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the...with whom the United States may contract by treaty,' — saving, however, the obligation of previous treaties. . . . Vet we do make 'agreements' with them...

...continued No more treaties. by the United States until 1871, when a law was enacted declaring that " no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of...with whom the United States may contract by treaty." Existing treaties were, however, preserved. We made treaties with the tribes just as with Spain or...

...Colonial times, and was continued by the United States until 1871, when a law was enacted declaring that " no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of...with whom the United States may contract by treaty." Existing treaties were, however, preserved. We made treaties with the tribes just as with Spain or...

...of Congress. This is seen in the act of March 3, 1871, embodied in § 2079 of the Revised Statutes: "No Indian nation or tribe, within the territory of...with any such Indian nation or tribe prior to March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, shall be hereby invalidated or impaired." with the Sioux Indians,...