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Again, in the case of the Kansas Indians [[?]] Wall ,737. the Supreme Court of the United States hold: "If the tribal organization of Indian bands is recognized by the political department of the national government as existing; that is to say, if the national government makes treaties with and puts its Indian agents among them, paying subsidies  and dealing otherwise with 'head men' in its behalf, the fact that the primitive habits and customs of the tribe, when in a savage state have been largely broken into by their intercourse with the whites, in the midst of whom, by the advance of civilization, they have come to find themselves, does not authorize a state government to regard the tribal organization as gone, and the Indians as citizens of the state where they are, and subject to its laws."

In the case of the United States ex Rel Shanks 15 Minn Page 378, the court says: "The Indians within our territory have always been considered and recognized by the United States as distinct political communities, and so far as is essential to constitute them separate nations the rights of sovereignty have been conceded to them. The intestate Indian Chief  'Hole in the Day' therefore was not a citizen of the United States, nor of the State of Minnesota, but belonged to a separate nation,  upon whom the laws of the
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Chief Hole-in-the-Day: https://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/chippewa-indian-chiefs-and-leaders.htm