Legal Opinion
Chilkat Indian Village v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 23, 1989No. 86-4312PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CANBY, Circuit Judge:
Chilkat Indian Village is an Indian group organized under section 16 of the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA), 25 U.S.C. § 476. It owns fee lands located in and around Klukwan, Alaska. The Village sued Michael Johnson and sixteen other defendants in federal district court, alleging that defendants violated a Village ordinance and federal law by removing Tlingit Native artifacts from Klukwan. The district court dismissed the Village’s complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction,1 ruling that the Village failed to state a cause of action arising under federal law, as…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- National Farmers Union Insurance v. Crow Tribe of IndiansSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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