Legal Opinion
County of Mille Lacs v. Benjamin
District Court, D. Minnesota
Decided May 6, 2003No. 0:02-cv-00040PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ROSENBAUM, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff County of Mille Lacs (“County”), and intervenor, First National Bank of Milaca, 1 ask the Court to declare the legal status of an Indian reservation. 2 The reservation was established by an 1855 treaty between the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians and the United States of America. Defendants are individual leaders of the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians. This matter is before the Court on defendants’ motion for summary judgment.
I. Background
A brief history of the reservation provides a context for this dispute. In 1837, not far from Fort Snelling,…
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