Indian title
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From 314 U.S. 339 - United States v. Santa Fe Pacific Railroad · 1941Most cited · 546 citing opinions
If it were established as a fact that the lands in question were, or were included in, the ancestral home of the Walapais in the sense that they constituted definable territory occupied exclusively by the Walapais (as distinguished from lands wandered over by many tribes), then the Walapais had 'Indian title' which unless extinguished survived the railroad grant of 1866.