OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE OF INDIANS v. ANDRUS

Nos. 79-1029, 79-1116.

603 F.2d 707 (1979)

The OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE OF INDIANS, and Elijah Whirlwind Horse, President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of Indians Anthony Whirlwind Horse, Appellant, v. Cecil D. ANDRUS, Secretary of the Interior, Forrest Gerard, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Indian Affairs, George V. Goodwin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Indian Affairs, Appellees. The OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE OF INDIANS, Appellant, and Elijah Whirlwind Horse, President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of Indians v. Cecil D. ANDRUS, Secretary of the Interior, Forrest Gerard, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Indian Affairs, George V. Goodwin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Indian Affairs, Appellees. Anthony Whirlwind Horse, Plaintiff-Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 27, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mario Gonzalez, Martin, S. D., for appellant, A. Whirlwind Horse.

Marvin Amiotte, Oglala Sioux Tribal Legal Services, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Pine Ridge, S. D., for appellant, Oglala Sioux Tribe.

Gail Osherenko, Atty., Land & Natural Resources Division, Appellate Section, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (argued), for appellees, James W. Moorman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Robert D. Hiaring, U. S. Atty., Jeffrey L. Viken and Shelley M. Stump, Asst. U. S. Attys., Sioux Falls, S. D., Steve Herman and Dirk D. Snel, Attys., and Anne Crichton, Atty., Dept. of the Interior, Washington, D. C., on brief.

Joseph Little, Albuquerque, N. M., filed brief of amicus curiae, All Indian Pueblo Council, Inc.

Before LAY, HEANEY and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

The Oglala Sioux Tribe of Indians, Elijah Whirlwind Horse, President of the Tribe, and Anthony Whirlwind Horse, Superintendent of the Pine Ridge Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), appeal from an order of the District Court which denied their request for permanent injunctive and declaratory relief, preventing the reassignment of Anthony Whirlwind Horse to the BIA's Area Office in Aberdeen, South Dakota. We reverse and remand.

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