High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fellows v. Blacksmith, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 366 (1857), was the first litigation of aboriginal title in the United States in the U.S. Supreme Court by an indigenous plaintiff since Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831). According to a contemporary New York Times article: "The questions involved are of great magnitude, and affect more or less the title to a large portion of the State of New York."