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1 Herbert Welsh & Carl E. Grammer, Chippewa Indians Threatened 1 (1916)

handle is hein.amindian/chipit0001 and id is 1 raw text is: (No. ilo-Second Series-30001 INDIAN RIGHTs ASSOCIATION, 995 DREXEL BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA, PA. December 28, 1916. CHIPPEWA INDIANS THREATENED Your influence is requested in defeating H. R. 14,731 (Calendar No. 304, Committee of the Whole House) and Senate Bill No. 6715, both of which provide for the issuance of fee simple patents to all adult mixed-blood allottees of the Chippewa Indian Tribe belonging to the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, repealing all laws by which the Secretary of the Interior or Federal Courts are empowered to protect these Indians in the settlement of estates of de- ceased Indians, being retroactive in this respect to June 21, 1906, and for other purposes. By authority of what is known as the Clapp Amendment of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat., 353) fee simple titles were vested in mixed-blood adult allottees of the White Earth Reserva- tion. The records show that there were approximately 5,ooo Chippewas allotted lands within the White Earth Reservation, i,ooo of whom are reported to be full bloods. Following the adoption of the Clapp Amendment removing restrictions, a great number of the allottees parted with their lands at grossly inadequate prices, and among these were many alleged full-bloods. The United States Supreme Court decided that a Chip- pewa Indian with any portion of foreign blood is a mixed- blood in the meaning of the Clapp Amendment. It is logical to conclude that a large proportion of the so-called mixed-bloods are probably no better able to protect their interests in business transactions than the full-bloods. That this condition actually exists is manifested by the fact that the Government instituted approximately 1500 suits to set aside deeds secured from allottees who are regarded as hopelessly incompetent. The United States Attorney General reports that on July I, 1915, there were II63 of the suits pending, and after I Reproduction by Permmission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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