Legal Opinion
Yankton Sioux Tribe v. US ARMY CORPS OF ENGIN.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 2, 2010No. 08-2255PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Chief Judge.
An 1858 treaty between the United States and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of Native Americans established the Yankton Sioux Reservation (the “Reservation”), comprising approximately 430,000 acres in what is now Charles Mix County, South Dakota, bounded on the south and west by the Missouri River. This appeal attacks the validity of land transfers by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the State of South Dakota. It is resolved by our determination of the current boundaries of the Reservation. We deferred our ruling pending disposition of another appeal involving a different…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Solem v. BartlettSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Cherokee Nation v. Southern Kansas Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1890
- South Dakota v. Yankton Sioux TribeSupreme Court of the United States · 1998
- Yankton Sioux Tribe v. PodhradskyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2010
- Nichols v. RysavyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1987
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3Cited by4 opinions
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