The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-10
CHARLES C.. DANIELS WINS
IN BIG INDIAN CASES
represents United States Department
OF Justice in Minnesota in Cases
Involving 2G0. 900 Acres.

In a recent issue the Minneapolis
Journal tells OF the success Of Mr..
Charles G. Daniels, OF Wilson. who
appears for h government in Indian
land cases III Minnesota involving
title TO more than 200. 900 acres OF
lana on the Chippewa Indian reserva-
tlon- The first case was made a test
case Mr.. Daniels won il on be
half of The United States government.
lie has been in Minnesota for some
time as the representative of
the Department Of Justice. The
government seeks in 1900 cases
TO have deeds made by the Indians
set aside. The decision sustaining
Mr.. Daniels was rendered at Mime
apolls by George L. O'Reilly master
IN ~chancery named by the Federal
district court to try and determine
the cases. Friends of Mr.. Daniels in
North Carolina Will be Interested in
hearing about the cases, and concern
ing them the Minneapolis Journal
says:
Mr.. O'Reilly holds that under the
provisions of the C1app act passed in
1870 n authorizing Indians of mix
ed blood TO transfer their lands. O
mo-deay-quay an Indian woman had
no authority TO transfer her land
that all the cOnveyances of her lane
are illegal and that title to the lane
still rests with the government viii
the Indian woman holding a trus
patent. Mr.. O'Reilly holds hat tn,
government has proven that the IN
dian woman is q fullblood and a.
such she had no right TO transfe
her land.
The decision is of great import
ance to h Indians of the Whit
Earth reservation for it means tina
unless it is reversed on appeal hun
dreds of land transactions made b
fl,1lh1nnj Tpdion- Mill 10 $50, i; >
= Many of these lands have been trans
ferred and administered and man
white settlers and white business me
in the vicinity of the reservation wi
. be affected by h decision.
"Following the passage Of tn
8 Clapp act much of the best land o
the reserve particularly the land wit
timber standing on it, was sold b
y the Indians Much of the land VIZ
bought by lumber companies.
It "Rumors that the fullblood Indiar
d had been cheated and defrauded
: being induced to deed away the
le lands resulted finally in 1910 in tt
is appointment of a congressional cor
mittee Of inquiry. The committ'
ct headed by Congressman James CIR;
re ham, of Illinois. in an extensive r
De port and after taking testimony
as the reservation, condemned the Clal
A. act as a law in the interest Of lumb
es companies and against the real i
a. terest of the Indians. 1t was assert
in the committee report thai hu
dreds Of fullblood dia had dee
ed away their and in some cases
bottles Of whiskey and ornamen
of 1t was declared hat little attenti
of was paid to the miXed-bloOd clau
ty in the Clapp act and that many
the transactions were illegal becau
n, the Indians involved were %fullbloot
THE government Instituted suit
100 cases asking that deeds ma
ty by Indians be set aside. It was 6
serted hat the ignorant fullDlOO
lis had been victimized, even by tn
", fellow Indians who were mix
ty bloods. The case decided today
he among the first to be submitted. TIL
to were prosecuted by c. C. Daniels,
ID. brother Of ~Josephus Daniels, Seer
"a tary OF the Navy, who was assign
de to the work by the Department
Justice.
ic- 1T Is probable an appeal will
vn taken and the case decided eventu
m ly by the United States suprel
a court"