The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-21
COURT ORDERS WHITES
FROM INDIAN LANDS
Area Valued at $2,50oooo Must Be
Returned to Survivors Of the
Six Nations

Six Nations
\ Syracuse April 21--The fnll power
Icf tie United States government was
placed at the disposal o. the Oneida
Indians, victorious in their fight IN
the United States Supreme Court to
'fegain possession of approximately 81,
100000 worth Of land in Oneida and
Madison counties, as the result Of or
ders signed by Federal Judge Frank
Cooper
Marshal Daniel Brietenstein Of Utica
is directed TO forclbly remove /
WI tie residents from the old indian
lands, title 70 which, reYerts to the
One da tribe Of the Six Nations or the
lroquois con ederacy.
The court order in addition to call
ing for the wholesale eviction Of the
white landholders directs tat the
marshall and his posse are to restore
the vast tract to the following Indians
hMary Shenandoah, Mary George,
Noah George, Henry George, Maggie
George William Honyost, Isaac Hon
vest Margaret Honyest, Chapman
Shenandoah, Bertha Shenandoah,
Z Elizabeth George, Henry George, Jen.
ME George and Mary George.
Because some of the whites resid-
ing on the Indian lands have affirmed
that they win never permit their
homes for years to be turned over To
redskins the government forces are
apprC1ensiye Of trouble when they
move to eyict the men and women
that the court has placed IN the squat
ter role
The oneida Indian ease, which, ac-
ecrd ne to Edward A. Everett, chair.
man Of the state Indian commission
may serve as a lever to overthrow
write ownership Of the lands in SYRIA
cuse Buf a'o and L0ckport, dates
back thirty-five years
At that time, Oneida was expert
enc.ng It's first expansion boom. The
tract inyolyet the J. II. Boylan ac-
ton, as the case is now known in
court records, now center3 at the
junction OF the state road and the
main highway leading into the city,
Thirty-hve years ago the Oneidas oc-
cupied the land as their reservation
under federal Jurisdiction,
! Residents of Oneida desired to
throw the property open to white col
imitation and with state assistance
Of cred the Indians ten acres OF land
Visions or every acre relinQuish
cd on the reservation Approximately
ght per cent Of the tribe accepted
.e proposal and migrated
In 1892 the remaining Indians. who
had refused to re.inquish tile war.
disposed and eventually removed
to the Onedaga reservation here %.
other places Some ten years ago tn.
Oneida land tuat.on came under th
spotlight
Chief Honyost attacked tie OEeila
w sconsin and trade as Illegal alec
ing It was not made by tribal action
and that congressional action had no
been obtained. Original y. the su t wa
brought in the state counts, bat
thrown out there it was taken int,
United States district court
Corporal on Counsel Frank J Greg
os this city, then an ass slant Unitei
States attorney, represented the In
dians After extended argument
JUDGE George W. Raw aanded down
deeis on in favor Of the Oneidas. Tn
case was carried up by Boylan, and
, after the Court Of Appeals had al
.rmed the district judges verdict. /
eventually reached the I'm ted state
Supreme Court, which likewise foun
In favor in the Indians
Passing his opinion upon tie fine
i0ps In the Oneida case. Chairma
Everett of the state Indian comm So
ion has declared that land worth 80
5000 100000, comprising some 5000
0Oo acres in the state must be rttur;
ed % original Indian tribal owners