MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court. These suits were brought in the district court for the Western District of Washington to establish and enforce asserted rights to allotments, each of 80 acres, in the Quinaielt Indian Reservation in the southwestern part of that state.
So what does that have to do with the definition of NBC?
Nothing
They ruled on where one’s allegiance lies, when born of parents of mixed allegiance.
If raised by the mother, then it is to the mother’s country...