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Indian Tribe

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A separate and distinct community or body of the aboriginal Indian race of men found in the United States. See 5 Pet. (U. S.) 1, 16, 17; 20 Johns. (N. Y.) 193; 3 Kent, Comm. 308-318; Story, Const. § 1096; 4 How. (U. S.) 567; 1 Mc- Lean (U. S.) 254; 6 Hill (S. C.) 546; 3 Ala. (N. S.) 48, INDICARE (Law Lat. from index, a shower or pointer). In the civil law. To show or discover. To fix or tell the price of a thing. Calv. Lex. To inform against; to accuse.

Dig. 50. 16. 197.