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Opinion of the Court

"The legislation in question was constitutional, and the demurrer to the bill was therefore rightly sustained."

Opinion of the Court

Lone Wolf's Arguments

-The bill is repugnant to the

Medicine Lodge Treaty

"Authority over the tribal relations of the Indians has been exercised by Congress from the beginning, and the power has always been deemed a political one, not subject to be controlled by the judicial department of the government."

-Tribe members were tricked

into signing the agreement.

The Jerome Commission

Congress

-The U.S. sent the Jerome Commission to the KCA in an attempt to gain more land

-Interpreters tricked tribe members into thinking they were signing against the agreement

-A bill was introduced every

year for 8 years to make the

agreement into law.

Treaties Leading up to Lone Wolf

Medicine Lodge Treaty:

The Long Term Impact of

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

-Basically a compilation of 3 prior

treaties made with the U.S. to ensure

peace and Indian land.

Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock

Kiowa, Comanche, and

Kiowa-Appache

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