Legal Opinion
Hagen v. Utah
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 23, 1994No. 92-6281PublishedCited by 169 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
In this case we decide whether the Uintah Indian Reservation was diminished by Congress when it was opened to non-Indian settlers at the turn of the century. If the reservation has been diminished, then the town of Myton, Utah, which lies on opened lands within the historical boundaries of the reservation, is not in “Indian country,” see 18 U. S. C. *402§ 1151, and the Utah state courts properly exercised criminal jurisdiction over petitioner, an Indian who committed a crime in Myton.
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On October 3, 1861, President Lincoln reserved about 2 million acres of land in the Territory of Utah for Indian…
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