DUNCAN ENERGY v. THREE AFFILIATED TRIBES

Civ. No. A1-91-222.

812 F.Supp. 1008 (1992)

DUNCAN ENERGY COMPANY, NBB Oil and Gas Partners (USA), Amerada Hess Corporation, Tyrex Oil Company and Turtle Mountain Gas and Oil, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. The THREE AFFILIATED TRIBES of the FORT BERTHOLD RESERVATION, Three Affiliated Tribes Tribal Business Council, Three Affiliated Tribes Tax Commission, Wilbur D. Wilkinson, Chairman, Tribal Business Council, Joseph J. Walker, Tax Commissioner, and Marcus Wells, Jr., Director, Tribal Employment Rights Office, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. North Dakota, Northwestern Division.

September 28, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian R. Bjella, Bismarck, ND, for plaintiffs.

Charles A. Hobbs, Hans Walker, Jr., Washington, DC, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CONMY, Chief Judge.

Glen Snowbird is to blame. If he had not been charged with assault in 1962 possibly the determination that the Northeast Quadrant was still within the exterior boundaries of the reservation might not have been made and the present dispute might not have arisen.

The Fort Berthold Reservation is a product of the swings of the congressional pendulum between separate sovereignty status as opposed to the assimilation...

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