Legal Dispute: Cherokee Nation vs. State of Oklahoma, 1967

Item — Box: DP 63, Folder: 42

Identifier: CAC_CC_001_4_63_42_0001

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The text is a letter from Carl Albert to Earl Boyd Pierce regarding a legal brief filed in a case involving the Cherokee Nation vs. State of Oklahoma. The brief seeks an accounting of and recovery of monies collected from leases of the Arkansas Riverbed in Oklahoma. The plaintiff, The Cherokee Nation, alleges that the leasing operations were unauthorized and seeks judgment for recovery of the money collected. The brief also mentions that fee title to the land in question was vested in the United States in trust for the Cherokees.

Dates

1967

Language of Materials

English

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