Bonds

This is an appeal from a judgment denying to appellant, a half white Indian woman, a member of the Blackfeet Tribe, the quieting in her of title to certain lands in Montana, claimed by her under a trust patent based upon an allotment to her.

The complaint in this case was filed on February 16, 1942, in the United States District Court for the District of Montana, Great Falls Division. As stated in appellant’s brief, it alleges, in substance, that the plaintiff (appellant here) is an Indian person, at all times a ward of the United States, under charge of the Superintendent of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in the State and District of Montana; that she was allotted 320 acres of land on the Blackfeet Reservation on February 28, 1918, and a trust patent issued to her containing the 25-year period of restriction on alienation and the promise of the United States to issue a patent in fee at the termination of the trust period as set out and provided in Section 348 of Title 25 U.S.C.A.; a description of the land so allotted; that on or about the 12th day of December, 1918, the United States, without any application therefor or consent thereto, issued a patent in fee, the same being…