Legal Opinion
Kevin Howlett v. The Salish and Kootenal Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 22, 1976No. 75--1478PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Before BARNES, SNEED and KENNEDY, Circuit Judges. BARNES, Senior Circuit Judge:
This appeal involves two plaintiffs, Kevin Howlett and Bernard Clairmont, members of the Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana [herein Tribes] who contend that the refusal of the Tribes to declare them eligible candidates for tribal council membership deprived them of their right to travel and their right to run for office in violation of Section 1302(8) of the Indian Civil Rights Act (25 U.S.C. § 1302(8) (1968)). Plaintiffs’ ineligibility was based upon their failure to satisfy the…
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