Legal Opinion
Yankton Sioux Tribe v. South Dakota
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 22, 1986No. Nos. 85-5289, 85-5290PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
The State of South Dakota appeals the district court’s determination, 604 F.Supp. 1146, that the Yankton Sioux Tribe of Indians (Tribe) owns the bed of Lake Andes located within the boundaries of the Yank-ton Sioux Tribe Reservation. We reverse.
The United States acquired sovereign title to Lake Andes and the land underlying its waters in 1803, as part of the Louisiana Purchase. Prior to the Louisiana Purchase, the Tribe, then nomadic, began periodically to hunt buffalo in the area around Lake Andes. Sometime after the Louisiana Purchase, however, the Tribe settled in the…
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