Legal Opinion
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin v. Thompson
District Court, W.D. Wisconsin
Decided September 16, 1996No. 95-C-30-CPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
CRABB, District Judge.
This is a civil action in which plaintiff Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, asserting that it enjoys off-reservation rights to hunt, fish and gather without state restriction on the lands it ceded to the United States in 1831, 1836 and 1848 and that it has unextin-guished aboriginal rights, derived from long uninterrupted use, to hunt and fish in various Wisconsin waters, including Lakes Winnebago and Michigan, the bay of Green Bay and portions of the Wisconsin River. In an opinion and order entered February 26,…
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3Cited by10 opinions
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