Legal Opinion
United States v. Consolidated Wounded Knee Cases
District Court, D. Nebraska
Decided January 17, 1975No. CR 73-5019 et alPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
URBOM, Chief Judge.
Approximately sixty-five defendants, charged criminally with acts allegedly done on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the vicinity of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, during early 1973, have moved for dismissal for want of jurisdiction. The single claim is that “the Courts of the United States do not have the power and jurisdiction to judge the guilt or innocence of individuals who are citizens of other Nations for alleged crimes committed on the soil of other Nations . . . ” 1 Permeating the position is the concept that the Sioux people are a fully sovereign nation, limited…
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