Legal Opinion
Canadian St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians v. New York
District Court, N.D. New York
Decided May 30, 2001No. 82-CV-783, 82-CV-1114, 89-CV-829PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDER
McCURN, Senior District Judge.
In this protracted land claim litigation, plaintiff tribes, as self-described descendants of the Village of St. Regis, seek a declaration of ownership and the right to possess approximately 12,000 acres of land in northern New York, plus damages for almost 200 years of dispossession. The tribes and plaintiff-intervenor the United States principally contend that the subject land was reserved to the Indians of the Village of St. Regis in the Treaty with the Seven Nations, 7 Stat. 55 (1796), and that defendant State of New York’s…
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Oneida Indian Nation of New York v. City of SherrillCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003
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- Dana Leigh Thompson v. County of Franklin and Bryon A. Varin, Treasurer of Franklin CountyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2002
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