...the 3rd of March. 1S71, Congress enacted that "hereafter no Indian nation, tribe, or power, shall bo acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States maj contract by treaty." This Act of Congress thus, to a certain extent, proclaimed all Indians within...

...— that of the self-government of tribes according to their own laws and customs, — by declaring that " Hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within...with whom the United States may contract by treaty." In the face of three hundred and eighty-two treaties with Indian tribes, ratified by the Senate as...

...Indian Appropriation Act of 1871,f Congress made certain provisos, in the following terms: " Provided that hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall he acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States...

...will have to be entered upon and caried out as to all. The declaration made by Congress March 3, 1671, that " hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within...with whom the United States may contract by treaty," appears to me to relieve the Department from entangling itself with an effort to reform past treaties,...

...will have to be entered upon and caried out as to all. The declaration made by Congress March 3, 1871, that " hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within...with whom the United States may contract by treaty." appears to me to relieve the Department from entangling itself with an effort to reform past treaties,...

...this policy, and a Congress, 3d of March, 1871, did abandon it, and embarked in a new policy: that-" no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of...with whom the United States may contract by treaty ; but no obligation of any treaty lawfully made and ratified with any such Indian nation or tribe prior...

...this policy, and a Congress, 3d of March, 1*71, did abandon it, and embarked in a new policy; that "no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of...with whom the United States may contract by treaty ; but no obligation of any treaty lawfully made and ratified with any such Indian nation or tribe prior...

...renounced its right to make treaties with the Indian tribes as independent powers, and it was declared that "hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the...with whom the United States may contract by treaty." 1871, APRIL 20. — A bill passed by Congress "more fully to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth...

...feature, that of the self-government of tribes according to their own laws and customs, by declaring that " Hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within...independent nation, tribe or power, with whom the US may contract by treaty." In the face of 382 treaties with Indian tribes, ratified by the Senate...

...renounced its right to make treaties with the Indian tribes as independent powers, and it was declared that " hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within...United States shall be acknowledged or recognized is an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty." 1871,...