Legal Opinion
Wolfchild v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 27, 2013No. 2012-5035, 2012-5036, 2012-5043PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1285Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge TARANTO.
Opinion concurring-in-part and dissenting-in-part filed by Circuit Judge REYNA.
TARANTO, Circuit Judge.
The United States currently holds certain tracts of land in Minnesota in trust for three Indian communities. It originally acquired some of that land in the late 1800s, using funds appropriated by Congress to help support a statutorily identified group of Indians, and held it for the benefit of those Indians and their descendants for decades. As time passed, that beneficiary group and the three present-day communities that grew on these…
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