MIAMI NATION OF INDIANS OF INDIANA, INC. v. LUJAN

No. S92-586M.

832 F.Supp. 253 (1993)

MIAMI NATION OF INDIANS OF INDIANA, INC. and Raymond White, as Chairman of the Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana, Inc., Plaintiffs v. Manuel LUJAN, JR., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Indiana, South Bend Division.

July 26, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arlinda F. Locklear, Jefferson, MD, Timothy Brazill, Indianapolis, IN, Henry Sockbeson, Richard Dauphinais, Native American Rights Fund, Washington, DC, for plaintiffs.

Kevin Meisner, Scott Keep, Dept. of the Interior, Div. of Indian Affairs, R. Anthony Rogers, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environmental & Natural Resources Div., General Litigation Section, Washington, DC, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MILLER, District Judge.

In this part of this case, the plaintiffs seek an order declaring that the United States Department of the Interior must recognize the Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana as an Indian tribe. That claim is based on an 1854 treaty between the federal government and the Miami Indiana tribe. The plaintiffs argue that the federal government withdrew acknowledgement of the Indiana Miami tribe due to an erroneous...

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