page_title: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
section_title: Supreme Court
hierarchical_section_title: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock / Supreme Court
caption_attribution_description: Edward Douglass White, Associate Justice Supreme Court, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left
context_page_description: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S. 553, was a United States Supreme Court case brought against the US government by the Kiowa chief Lone Wolf, who charged that Native American tribes under the Medicine Lodge Treaty had been defrauded of land by Congressional actions in violation of the treaty.
  The Court declared that the "plenary power" of the United States Congress gave it authority to abrogate treaty obligations between the United States and Native American tribes unilaterally. The decision marked a departure from the holdings of Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. 1, and Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 515, which had shown greater respect for the autonomy of Native American tribes.
caption: Justice Edward White, author of the majority opinion
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