MILLE LACS BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS v. STATE OF MINN.

Nos. 3-94-1226, 5-92-159.

952 F.Supp. 1362 (1997)

MILLE LACS BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS, Arthur Gahbow, Walter Sutton, Carleen Benjamin, and Joseph Dunkley, Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, St. Croix Chippewa Indians, et al., Lac Du Flambeau Band, et al., Bad River Band Of Lake Superior, et al., Lac Courte Oreilles Indians, et al., Sokaogan Chippewa Community, et al., Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior, et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. STATE OF MINNESOTA, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and Rod Sando, Commissioner of Natural Resources, Defendants, Counties of Aitkin, Benton, et al., John W. Thompson, et al., Defendants-Intervenors, Save Lake Mille Lacs Association, Amicus Curiae. FOND DU LAC BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS, et al. Plaintiffs, v. Arne CARLSON, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Third Division.

January 29, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Genia, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Onamia, MN, Marc D. Slonim and John B. Arum, Ziontz, Chestnut, Varnell, Berley & Slonim, Seattle, WA, for Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians, Arthur Gahbow, Walter Sutton, Carleen Benjamin and Joseph Dunkley.

James M. Johnson, Johnson Law Office, Olympia, WA, Jennifer Ann Fahey, Joint Powers Board, Milaca, MN, for County of Aitkin, County of Benton, County of Chisago, Sherburne County, Substituted for Chisago County, County of Crow Wing, County of Isanti, County of Kanabec, County of Mille Lacs, Morrison County, and County of Pine.

Larry Burton Leventhal, Leventhal Law Office, Minneapolis, MN, James M. Jannetta, Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewas, Sault Ste Marie, MI, for Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.

Milton Rosenberg, Rosenberg Law Office, Madison, WI, Donald R. McNeil, Jr., Bennett Brown, Minneapolis, MN, for Red Cliff Bank of Lake Superior Chippewa.

William Arthur Szotkowski, Stephen Bruce Masten, Jerilyn K. Aune, Michelle E. Beeman, Joseph Patrick Lally, Minnesota Attorney General, St. Paul, MN, for State of Minn., Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources, Joseph Alexander, Com'r of Natural Resources, Arne Carlson, Governor of Minn., Rodney Sando, Com'r of Natural Resources and Raymond B. Hitchcock, Asst. Com'r of Operations.

Douglas B.L. Endreson, Ann Doris Noto, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse & Endreson, Washington, DC, Henry M. Buffalo, Jr., Jacobson, Buffalo, Schoessler & Magnuson, Minneapolis, MN, Dennis J. Peterson, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Cloquet, MN, for Fond du Lac Band of Chippewa, Robert Peacock, Peter DeFoe, Clifton Rabideaux, Herman Wise and George Dupuis.

Lawrence A.G. Moloney, Doherty, Rumble & Butler, Minneapolis, MN, for Save Lake Mille Lacs Association.

Gary E. Persian, Stephen G. Froehle, Persian MacGregor & Thompson, Minneapolis, MN, for John W. Thompson, Jenny Thompson, Joseph N. Karpen, Leroy Burling, Glenn E. Thompson, and Gary M. Kiedrowski.

George Cardinal, pro se.

Zenas Baer, Baer & Assoc., Hawley, MN, for Dale Hanks and Chief Hole in the Day VII, Individually, and on behalf of Mississippi Band of Chippewa Indians.

Robert Michael Small, U.S. Attorney's Office, Minneapolis, MN, William A. White, Sheila A. Hackett, U.S. Department of Justice, Indian Resources Section, Washington, DC, for U.S.

Kenneth E. Tilsen, Hamline Law School, St. Paul, MN, Howard J. Bichler, St. Croix Chippewa Law Office, St. Croix Chippewa Center, Hartel, WI, for St. Croix Chippewa Indians.

Steven T. Zobbi, Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Crandon, WI, Guy C. Charlton, Charlton Law Office, Milwaukee, WI, Marcia A. Cordes, Cordes Law Office, Minneapolis, MN, Kevin C. Potter, Brennan Steil Basting & MacDougall, Madison, WI, for Sokaogon Chippewa Community.

Carol Brown Biermeier, Brown Law Office, Sun Prairie, WI, for Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

M. Joan Warren, Warren Law Office, Minneapolis, MN, for Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.

Stephen G. Froehle, Persian, MacGregor & Thompson, Minneapolis, MN, for Amicus Proper Economic Resource Management Inc., for Amicus Minnesota Deer Hunters Association, for John Thompson, Jenny Thompson, Glenn Thompson, Joseph Karpen, Leroy Burling, and Gary Kiedrowski.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

DAVIS, District Judge.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The Mille Lacs Band filed its Complaint on August 13, 1990 claiming the State has adopted and enforced natural resource laws and regulations that violate their privilege of hunting, fishing and gathering guaranteed them by the 1837 Treaty entered into between the United States of America and the Chippewa Indians. In this litigation, the Mille Lacs Band seeks a declaratory judgment...

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