Legal Opinion
Blackfeet Indian Tribe v. Montana Power Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 28, 1988No. 87-3697PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. BLAINE ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
The Blackfeet Indian Tribe seeks to have rights-of-way granted over tribal lands invalidated. The appeal presents the question of whether the Secretary of the Interi- or exceeded his authority by allowing a fifty-year term for natural gas pipeline rights-of-way across Blackfeet tribal lands. We hold he did not.
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Between 1961 and 1969, the Secretary of the Interior (“Secretary”) granted The *1056Montana Power Company (“MPC”) five rights-of-way for natural gas transmission pipelines across Blackfeet Indian Tribe (“Tribe”) lands on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in…
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