Legal Opinion
Melvin White Eagle, Chairman v. Philomene One Feather
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 10, 1973No. 72-1706PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Per curiam
The action before us was brought by enrolled members of the Standing Rock Sioux Indian tribes against the Tribal Council and its Chairman, Melvin White Eagle, seeking an order enjoining a general tribal election and requiring reapportionment of the elective districts of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. It was alleged that substantial population variances existed between the districts, that such districts did not “fairly and accurately represent the population distribution of said reservation,” and that under the Indian Civil Rights Act 1 particularly paragraph B thereof (“No Indian tribe…
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