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The Eastern Cherokee filed three claims alleging that the US government had violated the 1835 and 1846 Cherokee treaties. The Court of Claims consolidated the three complaints into one case and eventually, on 18 May 1905, the court ruled in favor of the tribe. Eligible tribal citizens were awarded over $1 million.
The electorate of the Cherokee Nation approved a new constitution. 2004: September 26: Lucy Allen, a descendant of the Cherokee Freedmen, files a lawsuit with the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court, in which it is alleged that acts barring the descendants of the Freedmen from membership are unconstitutional. c. 2005
After Justice Shawna Baker of the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court published the opinion, Effect of Cherokee Nation v. Nash & Vann v. Zinke, CNSC-2017-07 in 2021, the Cherokee Nation's Supreme Court ruled to remove the words "by blood" from its constitution and other legal doctrines. The words had been "added to the constitution in 2007" and had ...
This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.
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The Cherokee Nation brought Cherokee Nation v. Hitchcock to the Court to challenge the validity of the 1898 Curtis Act. [4] This act weakened and dissolved Indian territory tribal governments by abolishing tribal courts. In turn, Native American tribes in the United States were required to bring any cases to a US federal court. [4]
The Supreme Court is the highest court in the Cherokee Nation government. It interprets the tribe's constitution and statutes in all civil and criminal proceedings. On February 22, 2021, Baker's first written opinion was published, Effect of Cherokee Nation v. Nash & Vann v. Zinke, CNSC-2017-07.
The Commission was adjourned in 1978 by Public Law 94-465, [3] which terminated the Commission and transferred its pending docket of 170 cases to the United States Court of Claims on September 30, 1978. By the time of the Commission's final report, it had awarded $818,172,606.64 in judgments and had completed 546 dockets. [4] [5]