The U.S. Government’s Christian Nations Argument in Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States (1955)0

• federal Indian law
• August 27, 2020

Sixty-six years ago, in November of 1954, the U.S. Justice Department submitted a bizarre argument to the Supreme Court in the case Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States. The United States argued that the Tee-Hit-Ton Band of Tlingit Indians in Alaska should not receive monetary compensation for a taking of timber from their Tlingit territory. Why?