Legal Opinion
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin v. Tommy G. Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 17, 1998No. 96-3596, 96-3985PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*452COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin appeals the district court’s dismissal of its lawsuit seeking a declaration of the Tribe’s usufructuary rights on certain off-reservation lands set forth in a series of mid-nineteenth century treaties, as well as the enforcement of those rights by means of injunctive relief. The district court dismissed the lawsuit, concluding that the Tribe does not retain any aboriginal right to special treatment in hunting and fishing on off-reservation lands and that any off-reservation use rights reserved in the Treaty of 1831 were…
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