Lower Brule Sioux Tribe v. State of South Dakota John Cooper, Secretary, Division of Game, Fish & Parks for the State of South Dakota

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

This ease involves a long-standing dispute between the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe (“Tribe”) and the State of South Dakota and the Secretary of the State Game, Fish & Parks Division (“State”) concerning regulatory jurisdiction over hunting and fishing by nonmembers of the Tribe on nonmember-owned fee lands and waters and taken areas within the boundaries of the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation (“Reservation”). The Tribe brought this action to enjoin the State from enforcing its hunting and fishing laws over any person within the boundaries of the Reservation. The Tribe also…