Legal Opinion
Douglas F. Longie v. Spirit Lake Tribe Spirit Lake Health Administration Spirit Lake Tribe Refuse Control Services
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 7, 2005No. 04-1578PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Douglas L. Longie appeals the district court’s 1 dismissal of his case for lack of federal jurisdiction and, alternatively, for his failure to exhaust tribal court remedies. We affirm.
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This appeal involves a dispute between the Spirit Lake Tribe and one of its members over two tracts of land within the Spirit Lake Nation Indian Reservation. Longie, an enrolled tribal member, submitted a request for a land exchange to the tribe in 1976, seeking to trade his family’s 40-acre allotment (No. DLS-888) for the 80-acre Devils Lake Sioux Allotment No. SL-0878. Congress…
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