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Yankton Sioux Tribe of Indians v. United States, 272 U.S. 351 (1926)
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Yankton Sioux Tribe of Indians v. United States, 272 U.S. 351 (1926)
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Yankton Sioux Tribe of Indians v. United States No. 250 Argued October 7, 1926 Decided November 22, 1926 272 U.S. 351
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CLAIMS
Syllabus
1. Where promises are in the alternative, the fact that one of them is at the time, or subsequently becomes, impossible of performance does not, without more, relieve the promisor from performing the other. P. 358.
2. In an agreement, ratified by Congress in 1894, by which the Yankton Sioux Indians made a large cession of lands to the United States, it was stipulated, in part consideration for the cession and with respect to a small tract of other land containing pipestone quarries which were long claimed by the Indians under a Treaty of 1858 with encouragement from Congress, (1) that, if the government questioned their ownership of that reservation, including the fee of the land as well as the right to work the quarries, the Secretary of the Interior should as speedily as possible refer the matter to the Supreme Court of the United States for decision, and (2) that, if this were not done within one year from the ratification of the agreement by Congress, such failure on the part of the Secretary should be a waiver by the United States of all rights to the ownership of such pipestone reservation, and the same should thereafter be solely the property of the tribe. The Secretary, believing the provision for securing a decision of the Court was beyond the power of Congress, and being advised by the Attorney General that it was impracticable, made no attempt to carry it out. The land ceded was opened to settlement by the government, and passed largely into the possession of innocent purchasers, making restoration of the status quo ante impossible. In new of the equities growing out of these facts, held that the second of the alternative stipulations was enforceable even if the first was not. P. 356.
61 Ct.Cls. 40 reversed.
Certiorari (270 U.S. 637) to review a judgment of the Court of Claims rejecting the claim of the above-named tribe of Indians for compensation for a tract of land in Minnesota embracing the Red Pipe Stone Quarries, which had been appropriated by the United States. See also 53 Ct.Cls. 67, 81.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Yankton Sioux Tribe of Indians v. United States, 272 U.S. 351 (1926) in 272 U.S. 351 272 U.S. 352. Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=T9W3VI94DGVAF8K.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Yankton Sioux Tribe of Indians v. United States, 272 U.S. 351 (1926), in 272 U.S. 351, page 272 U.S. 352. Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=T9W3VI94DGVAF8K.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Yankton Sioux Tribe of Indians v. United States, 272 U.S. 351 (1926). cited in 1926, 272 U.S. 351, pp.272 U.S. 352. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=T9W3VI94DGVAF8K.
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