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YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE v. GAFFEY

Nos. Civ. 98-4042, Civ. 94-4217.

14 F.Supp.2d 1135 (1998)

YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE, and its individual members, Plaintiffs, United States of America, on its own behalf and for the benefit of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Matt GAFFEY, States Attorney of Charles Mix County; Herman Peters, Bruce Bakken, and Jack Soulek, Members of the Charles Mix, South Dakota, County Commission; William Janklow, Governor of South Dakota; and Mark Barnett, Attorney General of South Dakota, Defendants, The YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE, federally recognized tribe of Indians, and its individual members, and Darrell E. Drapeau, individually, a member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, Plaintiffs, v. SOUTHERN MISSOURI WASTE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, a non-profit corporation, Defendant. SOUTHERN MISSOURI WASTE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, Third-Party Plaintiff, v. STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA, Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court, D. South Dakota, Southern Division.

August 14, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robin L. Zephier, Rapid City, SD, Michael H. Scarmon, Stickney & Groe, Elk Point, SD, James G. Abourezk, Sioux Falls, SD, for Plaintiffs.

Tommy Drake Tobin, Winner, SD, Matthew F. Gaffey, Charles Mix County State's Atty., Lake Andes, SD, for Defendants.

Kenneth W. Cotton, Wipf & Cotton, Wagner, SD, for Interested Party Southern Missouri Waste Management Dist.

Kenneth W. Cotton, Wipf & Cotton, Wagner, SD, Mr. Timothy R. Whalen, Lake Andes, SD, for amicus.

Karen E. Schreier, U.S. Attorney, Rita D. Allen, Sioux Falls, SD, for Intervenor-Plaintiff U.S.

John P. Guhin, Pierre, SD, for Defendant/Counterclaimant William Janklow.

Roxanne Giedd, John P. Guhin, Charles D. McGuigan, Pierre, SD, for State of S.D.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PIERSOL, District Judge.

In South Dakota v. Yankton Sioux Tribe, ___ U.S. ___, 118 S.Ct. 789, 139 L.Ed.2d 773 (1998), the United States Supreme Court held that the 1894 Act of Congress ratifying the 1892 Agreement with the Yankton Sioux Tribe for the sale of surplus tribal lands terminated the reservation status of those unallotted, ceded lands, resulting in the diminishment of the Yankton Sioux Reservation. The Supreme...

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