Glance

The case of Willie G. Patterson et al. and Maggie Lee Glance et al. concerns their attempt to be enrolled as Choctaws by blood. They claimed descent from Sarah Patterson, a one-fourth Choctaw, but their names were absent from tribal rolls. Their brothers, James and Walter Patterson, were enrolled as Choctaws by blood, but Willie and Maggie were only allowed to apply as Mississippi Choctaws under the Treaty of 1830. The Dawes Commission denied their applications in 1903, citing lack of evidence that their ancestors complied with the treaty. The decision was approved by the Secretary of the Interior in 1903.