Menominee Tribe of Indians v. United States

This case arises out of the Menominee Termination Act of 1954, Pub. L. No. 399, ch. 303, 68 Stat. 250, as amended, 25 U.S.C. §§ 891-902 (1970), a different aspect of which was previously before the court in Menominee Tribe of Indians v. United States, 179 Ct. Cl. 496, 388 F.2d 998 (1967), affirmed 391 U.S. 404 (1968). Under the Treaty of Wolf River in 1854,10 Stat. 1064, the Menominee Tribe received and occupied for over a century a reservation in Wisconsin. In 1953 Congress by concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 108, 67 Stat. B132) directed the Secretary of the Interior to recommend…