Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-12-07
ADMITTED AS CITIZENS.
L. D. Long and Family Sue
ceSSfuI at Last.

passed upon few more citizenship
cases and w. S. Stanfield, their
attorney, has succeeded in securing
the admission OF L. D. Long, and
family or part of it, at Fairland.
The opinion in the case was receiv-
ed this morning and in its salient
points is as follows:
A rehearing was allowed in this
case and parties were permitted to
take additional testimony. The
additional testimony clearly estab-
fishes the fact that the principal
claimants, Robert H. Long and
Lemuel D. Long, in connection
with the testimony heretofore
filed, are Cherokee Indians by
blood, and that they took up their
residence in the Cherokee nation
prior TO November 20, 1868, and
that they have regarded that nation
as their place of residence ever
since that time. The Cherokee
council passed an act October 10,
1S41, to the effect that all Chero-
KEGS, who resided out of the limits
of the nation previous to the adop-
ton of the constitution should not
be required to memorialize the ma
tional council for admission to the
rights and privileges of citizenship,
it was considered that they had
the right of returning without the
action of the council. This act
was repealed Nov. 20, 1868. 1t
will thus be seen that from Octo-
Der Is, 1S41, until November 20,
1868, a period of q years, a gener-
al invitation was extended by the
Cherokee nation to all Cherokees
who may have been residing out of
the limits of the nation previous
to the adoption of the constitution
to return to the nation and enjoy
the rights and privileges Of citizen
ship without being required
to memorabilia the national coun-
Gil for admission. (See general
opinion of this court in citizenship
cases, printed by interior depart
ment, in pamphlet form, 1892
1t appears from the additional
testimony that some of the chill
dren of the principal claimant are
not residents of the Cherokee ma
ton. Such non-residents are GER
tain of the children of Lemuel D.
Long, namely: Charles Long, o.
L. Long. and Mrs. L. NJ. Smiley,
(nee Long, written also Smile.
The judgment of the United
States commission to the five civ
ilized tribes rejecting the claim of
said non-residents, namely, Chas.
and o. L. Long, and Mrs. L. NJ.
Smiley, is affirmed, and their ap-
plication to be enrolled as citizens
of the Cherokee nation is denied.
The judgment of said commits
sion in rejecting the claim of the
other claimants is reversed, and
their application to be enrolled as
citizens of the Cherokee nation is
allowed, and it is therefore order
ed, adjudged and decreed by the
court that the said claimants to
citizenship in the Cherokee nation
are citizens of said nation. The
persons admitted to citizenship in
said nation by this decree are as
follows:
Robert ID. Long, Lauella Berry
(nee Long,, Isaiah H. Long, Mar
tina E. Bandy, Ivan Long, Mary c.
Long, Lucinda Long, Ivan Berry,
Lemuel Berry, Eva Berry, Lu-
cinda Berry (bOrn May 25. 1897,
after application was made to U.
S. commission), Lemuel d. Long,
Mauda L. Long Cor Manda L.
Long, Ida Long and Thomas
Long. In all, fifteen persons.
Now that the national council
has undertaken the task of making
a good character for Gus Ivey, its
possibilities in that line are un-
limited. The parties who looted
the treasury of 100000 in the
famous negro steal ought to have
K a chanpa now