Court Rulings
Choate v. trapp
224 U.S. 665 | May 13, 1912
Eight thousand tribal member plaintiffs with patented allotments from the Curtis Act asserted longstanding tax exemption, despite language in the Act of May 27, 1908, which provided that lands from which alienation restrictions had been removed should be taxed; the Court agreed, holding that lands allotted in severalty to members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes were nontaxable while the title remained in the original allottees. The exemption was a vested property right that could not be abrogated by statute.
Declined to extend in Chickasaw Nation v. U.S., 534 U.S. 84 (2001).
U.S. v. Creek Nation
295 U.S. 103 | April 29, 1935
Suit by the Muscogee Nation against the United States to recover compensation for certain lands of that tribe charged to have been appropriated by the United States.
Choctaw Nation v. Oklahoma
397 U.S. 620 | April 27, 1970
United States conveyed to the Indian nations the title to bed of Arkansas River below its junction with Grand River within the present State of Oklahoma and they were entitled to minerals beneath the river bed and the dry land created by navigation projects narrowing river and title thereto did not pass to Oklahoma upon its admission to union.
Congress enacted the Choctaw-Chickasaw-Cherokee Boundary Dispute Act on Dec. 20, 1973, to determine the rights and interests of the Choctaw Nation, the Chickasaw Nation, and the Cherokee Nation in and to the bed of the Arkansas River below the Canadian fork and to the eastern boundary of Oklahoma.
Choctaw Nation V. Cherokee nation
393 F.Supp. 224 | April 15, 1975
Pursuant to the Choctaw Treaty of 1830 and the Cherokee Treaties of 1833 and 1835 the Arkansas river became the southern boundary of the Cherokee Nation to the north of the Arkansas river and, likewise, the Arkansas river became the northern boundary of the Choctaw country, that the United States can dispose of lands underlying navigable waters just as it can dispose of other public lands, that United States' cessions of 1825, 1830 and 1855 to the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations and the cession of 1828, 1833 and 1835 to the Cherokee Nation were to political bodies which were treated as independent nations, that at common law a grant bounded by a nonnavigable stream carried right and title to the center of the stream, absent a clear intention otherwise, and that Arkansas river bed from the Canadian fork to the Arkansas-Oklahoma boundary belonged jointly to the Choctaw Nation and to the Cherokee Nation as of the dates of the patents issued to each, with the north portion of the river bed belonging to the Cherokee Nation and the south portion belonging to the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations.
Chickasaw Nation v. U.s.
534 U.S. 103 | Novembe 27, 2001
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) did not exempt Tribes from paying those gambling-related excise and occupational taxes that States were not required to pay under Internal Revenue Code chapter 35.