Henry Billings Brown

“ There is no limit to the right of the state, which may, in its discretion, prohibit the killing of all game, and thus practically deprive the Indians of their principal means of subsistence.
I am not impressed with the theory that the act admitting Wyoming into the Union upon an equal footing with the original states authorized them to impair or abrogate rights previously granted by the sovereign power by treaty, or to discharge itself of burdens which the United States had assumed before her admission into the Union. ”

“ It is a fact, so well known that we may take judicial notice of it, that the Indians have never been an industrial people, that even their agriculture was of the rudest description, and that their chief reliance for food has been upon the chase. The right to hunt on the unoccupied lands of the United States was a matter of supreme importance to them, and, as a result of being deprived of it, they can hardly escape becoming a burden upon the public. ”