Indian tribe

a body of Indians of the same or a similar race, united in a community under one leadership or government, and inhabiting a particular, though sometimes ill-defined, territory

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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.

A separate and distinct community or body of the aboriginal Indian race of men found in the United States. Such a tribe, situated within the boundaries of a state, and exercising the powers of government and sovereignty, under the national government, is deemed politically a state, — that is, a distinct political society, capable of self-government; but it is not deemed a foreign state in the sense of the constitution. It is rather a domestic dependent nation. Such a tribe may properly be deemed in a state of pupilage; and its relation to the United States resembles that of a ward to a guardian; Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 6 Pet (U. S.) 1, 8 L. Ed. 25; Jack- 118 U. S. 384, 6 Sup. Ct 1109, 30 L. Ed. 228; Wall V. Williamson, 8 Ala. 48. The obligation of the United States to protect Indians’ use of land is of honor, not of law; they are wards and congress can make any change In the disposition of their lands which it deems best; Conley v. Ballinger, 216 U. S. 84, 30 Sup. Ot. 224, 64 L. Ed. 393. “They were and always have been regarded as having a semi-independent position when they preserved their tribal relations; not as states, not as nations, not as possessed of the full attributes of sovereignty, but as a separate people with the power of regulating their internal and social relations, and thus far not brought under the laws of the Union or of the state within whose limits they resided;’’ U. S. V. Kagama, 118 U. S..376, 6 Sup. Ct. 1109, 30 L. Ed. 228. See Lowe v. Kansas, 163 U. S. 84, 16 Sup. Ct. 1031, 41 L. Ed. 78. Their local self-government is subject to the supreme legislative authority of the United States; Cherokee Nation v. R. Co., 136 U. S. 641, 10 Sup. Ct 966, 34 L. Ed. 296. The United States has power to pass such laws as may be necessary to their full protection and to punish all offences committed against them or by them within their reservation; U. S. V. Thomas, 161 U. S. 677, 14 Sup. Ct. 426, 38 L. Ed. 276. No state can, either by its constitution or other legislation, withdraw the Indians within its limits from the operation of the laws of congress regulating trade with them; notwithstanding any rights it may confer on them as electors or citizens; U. S. v. Holliday, 3 Wall. (U. S.) 407, 18 L. Ed. 182; The Kansas Indians, 6 Wall. (U. S.) 737, 18 L. Ed. 667; The New York Indians, 6 Wall. (U. S.) 761, 18 L. Ed. 708. See State v. Campbell, 63 Minn. 354, 55 N. W. 553, 21 L, R. A. 169; nor can it authorize leases of Indian lands; Buffalo, R. & P. Ry. Co. V. Lavery, 75 Hun 396, 27 N. Y. Supp. 443. The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico are not an Indian tribe within the meaning of the acts of congress; U. S. v. Joseph, 94 U. S. 614, 24 L. Ed. 295. The Indians residing in Maine, whose tribal organizations have ceased to exist, are not “Indian tribes,” within the treaty-making power of the federal government; State V. Newell, 84 Me. 465, 24 Atl. 943. The policy of congress is to vest in the courts of the Cherokee nation Jurisdiction of all controversies between Indians, or In which a member of the nation is the only party; In re Mayfield, 141 U. S. 107, 11 Sup. Ct. 939, 36 L. Ed. 635. See Indian. By act of March 3, 1893, congress Inaugurated the policy of terminating the tribal existence and government of the Indians and allotting their lands in severalty; Agreements were negotiated by the Dawes comment with the Semlnoles was made in 1897, with the Creeks in 1901 and 1902, with the Choctaws and Chickasaws in 1898 and in 190^, and with the Cherokees in the latter year; Ex parte Webb, 225 U. S. 663, 32 Sup. Ct. 709, 56 L. Ed. 1248. When Oklahoma was admitted into the Union, Nov. 16, 1907, the then existing tribal governments of the Five Civilized Tribes were continued in full force. See Tiger v. Investment Co., 221 U. S. 286, 31 Sup. Ct. 578, 55 L. Ed. 738. Cpngress may prohibit the introduction of liquor in to the Indian country; U. S. v. Sutton, 215 U. S. 291, 30 Sup. Ct 116, 54 L. Ed. 200. Treaties or agreements of the United States with Indian tribes are to be construed in the sense in which they would naturally be understood by the Indians; Jones v. Meehan, 175 U. S. 1, 20 Sup. Ct. 1, 44 L. Ed. 49.

A separate and distinct community or body of the aboriginal Indian race of men found in the United States. Montoya v. U. S., 180 U. S. 261, 21 Sup. Ct. 358, 45 L. Ed. 521; Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 5 Pet 17, 8 L. Ed. 25.

Defined under Indians in Black's Law Dictionary.

A separate and distinct community or body of the aboriginal Indian race of men found in the United States.

a body of the aboriginal Indian race of men found in the United States. Such a tribe, situated within the boundaries of a state, and exercising the powers of government and sovereignty, under the national government, is deemed politically a state; that is, a distinct political society, capable of selfgovernment; but is not deemed a foreign state, in the sense of the constitution. It is rather a domestic dependent nation. Such a tribe may properly be deemed in a state of pupillage; and its relation to the United States resembles that of a ward to a guardian. 5 Pet. R. 1, 16,17; 20 John. R. 193; 3 Kent, Com. 308 to 318; Story on Const. § 1096.