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allegiance to the United States.  These Pouca Indians left their reservation the Indian Territory, not because they were dissatisfied with their mode of life, their form of government, their customs and habits, but because they were dissatisfied with their habitation, because their location in the south did not afford ample scope for the full play of their savage instincts and semi-barbarous life.  The case here does not show that these Indians had turned away from their roaming, hunting, pastoral and nomadic life with the purpose of adopting the dress, habits and customs of civilized life.  When found on the Omaha Reservation they were living as they had always lived adopting their usual dress, former habits, customs and mode of government, and were entirely innocent of the fact that they were soon to be clothed with the full rights of American citizenship.  These Indians were no more fitted to become citizens of the United States the day they were arrested than the day they left their far away home in the Indian Territory.  It ranges upon the absurd to argue that an ignorant Indian can in the twinkling of an eye be transformed into an American citizen.  There is no such hocus pocus known to the law.  The spots of the leopard cannot be changed by a wish.  An Indian can no more by a simple declaration of intention attain to
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