Show millions Is indians 5 demand dem and chickasaws will press claim for payment for land in oklahoma i oklahoma city okla ia merit for acres of land in oklahoma ina once designated is as a leased district that now has at a value adlue of probably Is to be asked of tile the united states government by the chickasaw Chickas nw indians ne according cording to douglas 11 II Joh johneton Jo linston niton governor govern jr of tile the chickasaw nation who returned recently from washington where lie he remained for six months looking after the interests of his big people in a controversy out of which a suit tor for payment will grow are involved 1 a I doubtful construction of a treaty made in 1806 lie between tween the chickasaws and the united states government anti anil the pride of race exhibited by the chicks saws when they declined to adopt freedmen negroes who hae bate been slaves slates of the indians as members of tile the tribe it a consequence of which Is that the chickasaws have remained singularly free from fram intermixture with the ithe negro rice race were lease contracts the leased district in what later was oklahoma territory covered lands once occupied by the wichita ant and affiliated anil tribes the chickasaws hold that contracts contract covering it were wc re lease contracts this was an opinion expressed by the court of claims when the lie matter first was appealed the united states supreme court ho however weier bield that contracts involved conveyances and that the lands wore were sold the area was regarded by the government as public domain an and sold to settlers for many millions of dollars under the lie treaty of says governor johnston tile the chickasaws and choctaws Croc taws ceded these aliese western lands to the united states tor for certain specific purposes these purposes were among other things for the settlement of friendly indians for tile the removal of chickasaw and choctaw freedmen and the settlement of such fuch members of the tribe as might desire to remove thereto the treaty also provided for a fund of MOO which was to be bield in trust by the united states pending the removal or adoption of the freedmen it was provided that the chickasaw and choctaw freedmen to be removed lf if the tribe tailed to adopt them within ano years in which event tile the was to be used for removal it if the tribe adopted sue such freedmen within the time specified they were to have the benefit of the 11 00 the chickasaw freedmen freedm cn never were adopted tile the tribe never has cla claimed lined nr mr hns it ever received receive tiny liny part of consideration whether the choctaw Ch octav freedmen legally were adopted always tins has been a question certain friendly indians were settled on these lands under the provisions of the treaty the right of chickasaws and ca choctaws to additional compensation tor for the I 1 land d so used has hoen established by the action c tion of congress in its direct appropriation pria tion of money for the jie payment p of the same to the tribes this money was paid out per capita in bisoi ind Is referred to as tile lie leased eased district payment the lands for which compensation pensa tion now Is asked were nere comprised in the same aren area the indians hold that they made a lease and at not a conveyance says governor johnston linston Jo two great croat courts diff differed tred the language an of tile the treaty was sufficiently uncertain to support conflicting opinions of the courts |