Court Opinion

ID: 9551051
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:47:06.145594+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:22:57.895513
License: Public Domain

ON DENIAL OF SECOND PETITION FOR REHEARING
BISTLINE, Justice,
dissenting.
When Alexis De Tocqueville over a century ago observed with regard to the rights of Indians in their native land:
If we consider the tyrannical measures which have been adopted by the legislatures of the ... states, the conduct of their governors, and the decrees of their courts of justice, we shall be convinced that the entire expulsion of the Indians is *466the final result to which the efforts of their policy are directed,
he not only wrote1 of what he saw at that time, but prophesied today’s majority opinion.

. Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Phillips Bradley (ed.) (New York: Alfred Knopf, Inc., 1944).