Show CURTIS LAW CONSTITUTIONAL Supreme Court Decision Affects Many Indian Claimants South McAlester I T May 16The supreme court of the United States has handed down a decision declaring the Curtis bill constitutional and sustaining sustain-ing the lower courts in their decisions The decision which involves 113 different dif-ferent cases covers everything in tlfe citizenship cases brought up from the Cherokee Choctaw Chickasaiv Creek and Seminole nations The decision declares that congress intended that appeals from the Dawes commission in Indian citizenship cases could only be taken to the territorial courts These decisions will affect thousands of claimants for citizenship |