Legal Opinion
Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri v. Babbitt
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided March 2, 2000No. 96-4129-RDR, 964130-RDRPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
ROGERS, District Judge.
These long-pending cases concern the decision of the Secretary of the Interior to take .52 acres of land (the “Shriner Tract”) into trust on behalf of the Wyandotte Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, purportedly under the mandate of Public Law 98-602, and whether that land is contiguous to “reservation” land for the purposes of the Indian Gaming Regulation Act, 25 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq. The alleged “reservation” land is the Huron Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas.
The complaints
Case No. 96-4129 was filed by the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri, the Iowa Tribe of…
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