Legal Opinion
Atkinson Trading Co. v. Shirley
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 29, 2001No. 00-454PublishedCited by 153 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
In Montana v. United States, 450 U.S. 544 (1981), we held that, with limited exceptions, Indian tribes lack eivü authority over the conduct of nonmembers on non-Indian fee land within a reservation. The question with which we are presented is whether this general rule applies to tribal attempts to tax nonmember activity occurring on non-Indian fee land. We hold that it does and that neither of Montana’s exceptions obtains here.
In 1916, Hubert Richardson, lured by the possibility of trading with wealthy Gray Mountain Navajo cattlemen, built the Cameron Trading Post just south of the Little…
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