BUCKANAGA v. SISSETON IND. SCHOOL DIST., NO. 54-5

No. 85-5095.

804 F.2d 469 (1986)

Celine BUCKANAGA, Francis Gill, Harvey Dumarce, Nancy Smith, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated; Appellants, v. SISSETON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, No. 54-5, SOUTH DAKOTA; Maurice Rabenburg, Individually and in his official capacity as superintendent of the Sisseton Independent School District, South Dakota; Glen Hull, Robert Horton, Richard Fonder, LeRoy Hellwig, Daryl D. Russell, Lynneta K. Fisher, Milton Leiseth, Delano Christianson and Steven Paullesen, Individually and in their official capacities as members of the Sisseton School Board, South Dakota; Laverna Aadland, Individually and in her official capacity as County Auditor; and Cheryl Karst, Individually and in her official capacity as Business Manager of the Sisseton Independent School District; Appellees, Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided October 31, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeanette Wolfley, Boulder, Colo., for appellants.

David Gilbertson, Sisseton, S.D., for appellees.

Before ROSS, McMILLIAN and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.


McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.

Celine Buckanaga, Francis Gill, Harvey Dumarce, and Nancy Smith, United States citizens of American Indian descent, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, appeal from a final judgment entered in the District Court for the District of South Dakota in favor of Sisseton Independent School District No. 54-5 (District), members of the school board, the business manager and superintendent of the District, and the county auditor...

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