Elk v. Wilkins

Elk v. Wilkins
by Horace Gray

Syllabus

Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U.S. 94 (1884), was a United States Supreme Court case that held that an Indian cannot make himself a citizen of the United States without the consent and co-operation of the government. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Court Documents

Opinion of the Court

Dissenting Opinion: Harlan

Wikipedia article

United States Supreme Court

112 U.S. 94

Elk v. Wilkins

A. J. Poppleton and J. L. Webster, for plaintiff in error.

G. M. Lamberton, for defendant in error.

GRAY, J.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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