Menominee Tribe of Indians v. United States

In Wisconsin v. Sanapaw et al. 21 Wis. 2d 377, 124 N. W. 2d 41 (19.63), cert. denied, 377 U.S. 991 (1964), rehearing denied 379 U.S. 871- (1964), tbe Wisconsin Supreme Court held that Congress by its enactment of Section 10 of the Menominee Termination Act of 1954 ended plaintiff’s unregulated hunting and fishing and brought them within the purview of the state’s game laws. See 68 Stat. 250, 25 U.S.C. § 899 (1964). The state court found that the state’s asserted regulation of the Indians was derivative of Federal statutes and that the Indians had no claim against the state. The majority of…