The U.S. Supreme Court case of Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock involved the government opening up land in Oklahoma defined as "surplus" by the Dawes Act to white settlement.

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Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903) involved the U.S. government's authority to unilaterally break treaties with Native American tribes, in this case, to open up land in Oklahoma, previously guaranteed to the tribes, for white settlement under the guise of it being "surplus" land as defined by the Dawes Act.

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