Seymour v. Superintendent of Washington State Penitentiary

How courts have described this case

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• holding that allotment act “did no more than open the way for non-Indian settlers to own land on the reservation”
• holding that allotment act \did no more than open the way for non-Indian settlers to own land on the reservation\
• concluding that under § 1151(a) reservation status applies even when land is purchased by a non Indian
• holding that size of Colville Indian Reservation was diminished by a congressional act stating that about one-half of the original reservation should be \vacated and restored to the public domain.\
• holding that size of Col-ville Indian Reservation was diminished by a congressional act stating that about one-half of the original reservation should be “vacated and restored to the public domain.”
• holding that “vacate and restore” language terminated north half of Colville Reservation

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