The Kansas Delawares' Lobbying Effort to Get Congress to Change Its Mind on Exclusion from Tribal Damages

Item — Box: 32, Folder: 3

Identifier: CAC_CC_109_7_32_3_0027

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The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress did not violate the constitutional rights of about 600 Delaware Indian descendants when it excluded them from sharing in a $9 million judgment against the United States in connection with an 1854 treaty. The Court said that the Kansas Delawares are simply individual Indians with no vested rights in tribal property because their ancestors in 1866 chose to become U.S. citizens and dissolve tribal relationships in return for 80-acre land parcels in Kansas. Justice John Paul Stevens filed a dissenting opinion.

Dates

1977

Language of Materials

English

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Extent

1 pages

Additional Description

Overview

95th Congress (1977-1979)

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Related Materials

Cherokee, Delaware, Kaw

General

Crime and Law Enforcement, Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues, Native Americans (general), Armed Forces and National Security, Law, Native Americans