1903
Court decisionBook sources
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
United States; Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and other Native nations
The Supreme Court upheld broad congressional power over tribal property and treaty relations. The ruling weakened treaty-based protection against unilateral federal land decisions.
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Context / qualification
The case concerns Congress’s claimed plenary power; it is not merely a ruling on the 1871 rider.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 10