Legal Opinion
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin v. Thompson
District Court, W.D. Wisconsin
Decided February 26, 1996No. 95-C-0030-CPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER NO. 2
CRABB, District Judge.
Plaintiff Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin brings this action for declaratory and injunctive relief, asserting that it enjoys off-reservation rights to hunt, fish and gather without state restriction on the lands it ceded to the United States in 1831, 1836 and 1848; that it has unextinguished aboriginal rights, derived from long uninterrupted use, to hunt and fish in various Wisconsin waters, including Lakes Winnebago and Michigan, the bay of Green Bay and portions of the Wisconsin River; and that it has the right to harvest Wolf River sturgeon…
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin v. Tommy G. ThompsonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1998
- Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin v. ThompsonDistrict Court, W.D. Wisconsin · 1996
- Mattaponi Indian Tribe v. CommonwealthNewport News County Circuit Court · 2007
- Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin v. Tommy G. ThompsonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1998