Legal Opinion
Little Traverse Bay Bands Indians v. Whitmer
District Court, W.D. Michigan
Decided January 31, 2019No. 1:15-cv-850Published
1Opinion of the Court
Paul L. Maloney, United States District Judge
Plaintiff Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians ("the Tribe") filed suit in 2015, claiming that the State of Michigan has continually failed to recognize an Indian Reservation spanning more than 300 square miles in the Northwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. The Tribe seeks a declaratory judgment from the Court that the claimed Reservation was created via treaty between its predecessor and the Federal Government in 1855, and that the Reservation has continued to exist to this day and has not been diminished or disestablished by any…
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