In United States v. Rogers (1846) 45 U.S. 567, it was held that a white man who at a mature age had been adopted into an Indian tribe does not thereby become an Indian within the meaning of an exception in the statute which provides that a named section "shall not extend to crimes committed by one Indian against the person or property of another Indian." The Supreme Court was of the opinion that the exception was confined to those who by the usages and customs of the Indians are regarded as belonging to their race. The Supreme Court held that a non-Indian could not, through his adoption into the Cherokee Tribe, bring himself within the federal definition of "Indian" for purposes of an exemption to a federal jurisdictional provision. But the Supreme Court recognized that a non-Indian could, by adoption, "become entitled to certain privileges in the tribe, and make himself amenable to their laws and usages." (Id.)