Did the Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock case or the Hernandez v. Texas case come first?
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S. 553 (1903) was a United States Supreme Court case brought against the US government by the Kiowa chief Lone Wolf, who charged that Native American tribes under the Medicine Lodge Treaty had been defrauded of land by Congressional actions in violation of the treaty.
United States ex rel. West v. Hitchcock United States ex rel. West v. Hitchcock, 205 U.S. 80 (1907) , regards a case where the Secretary of the Interior has authority to pass on the right of one claiming to be a member of a band of Indians to select land under an agreement ratified by an act of Congress, his jurisdiction does not depend upon his decision's being right.