State v. Tucker

The question is whether the' state of Wisconsin may require defendant, a tribal Indian living on the Menominee Indian reservation, to1 register his motor truck and pay a registration fee for its operation over that portion of a state trunk highway which is within the exterior boundaries of the Menominee Indian reservation. Defendant contends that the United States government has sole juris diction over tribal Indians within this reservation, and that the grant of a right of way to the state to maintain a public highway through it has not brought Indian users of the right of way within the…