Legal Opinion
Geraldine Janis v. Dick Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 13, 1975No. 75-1158PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEANEY, Circuit Judge.
On April 5, 1973, the Executive Committee of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, unanimously terminated the employment of the appellants, non-probationary em ployees of the Community Health Representative Program (CHR). The appellants, Geraldine Janis, Della Starr, Minerva Walks Out and Victoria Wounded Foot, were members of the Tribe and residents of the reservation. They were also members of a tribal civil rights organization critical of the tribal government.
The CHR was operated and funded by the Tribe, and its employees were governed…
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