Supreme Court· 2/19/1923

Cramer v. United States

Citations

261 U.S. 219
43 S. Ct. 342
67 L. Ed. 622
1923 U.S. LEXIS 2546

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government protects rights of Indians if such rights are recognized in statute or flow from settled governmental policy
where Indians had treaty rights to land, leasing of the land to a non-Indian defendant “by agents of the government was ... unauthorized and could not bind the government; much less could it deprive the Indians of their rights”
where Indians had treaty rights to land, leasing of the land to a non-Indian defendant “by agents of the government was ... unauthorized and could not bind the government; much less could it deprive the Indians of their rights”
grant to railroad did not extinguish aboriginal title

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Judges: Sutherland

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