Legal Opinion
Omaha Indian Tribe v. Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 11, 1978No. Nos. 77-1384 and 77-1387PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAY, Circuit Judge.
On March 16, 1854, the Omaha Indian Tribe entered into a treaty with the United States in which certain lands, including 2,900 acres of land located in the then Territory of Nebraska in an area known as Blackbird Bend, were reserved by the Tribe as part of an agreement which ceded to the United States all other land west of the “centre of the main channel of said Missouri river . . 1 Act of March 16, *6221854, Art. 1,10 Stat. 1043. At the time the Omaha Indian Reservation was established the reserved land within Blackbird Bend was situated on the west side of the Missouri…
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Stefania Harris v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner, Social Security AdministrationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2004
- Wilson v. Omaha Indian TribeSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- United States v. Thomas E. Flaherty, United States of America v. James R. Kearns, Jr., United States of America v. Stuart H. WahlCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1981
- Rupp v. Omaha Indian TribeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1995
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