Legal Opinion
Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 6, 1978No. 76-5729PublishedCited by 487 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nehnquist
Two hundred years ago, the area bordering Puget Sound consisted of a large number of politically autonomous Indian villages, each occupied by from a few dozen to over 100 Indians. These loosely related villages were aggregated into a series of Indian tribes, one of which, the Suquamish, has become the focal point of this litigation. By the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, 12 Stat. 927, the Suquamish Indian Tribe *193relinquished all rights that it might have had in the lands of the State of Washington and agreed to settle on a 7,276-acre reservation near Port Madison, Wash. Located on Puget Sound…
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