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WHITE EAGLE v. DORGAN

Civil Nos. 8855-8858.

209 N.W.2d 621 (1973)

Melvin WHITE EAGLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Byron L. DORGAN, Tax Commissioner, State of North Dakota, Defendant and Appellant, and R. B. Luger, doing business as the Diamond Z Food Center; and Dean Barker, doing business as Barker's Indian Trading Post, Defendants. Joseph F. CONDON, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Byron L. DORGAN, Tax Commissioner, State of North Dakota, Defendant and Appellant. Henry BAILEY, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Byron L. DORGAN, Tax Commissioner, State of North Dakota, Defendant and Appellant. Harry FAST HORSE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Byron L. DORGAN, Tax Commissioner, State of North Dakota, Defendant and Appellant, and Lloyd L. Martinson, doing business as the Martinson Store, Defendant.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

July 12, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert A. Wolf, Bismarck, and Marvin J. Sonosky, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs and respondents.

Paul M. Sand, First Asst. Atty. Gen., and Kenneth M. Jakes, Albert R. Hausauer, and Robert W. Wirtz, Special Asst. Attys. Gen., Bismarck, for defendant and appellant Tax Commissioner.

STRUTZ, Chief Justice.

Each of the plaintiffs in the above four actions is an Indian residing on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota. Three are members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and the fourth is a member of the Sheyenne River Sioux Tribe. All of them earn their livelihood on the reservation, the plaintiff White Eagle as an employee of the Standing Rock Sioux tribal office in Fort Yates; the plaintiff Condon as an employee of the United States...

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