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WISCONSIN v. STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE COMMUNITY

No. 04-3834.

554 F.3d 657 (2009)

State of WISCONSIN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE COMMUNITY and Robert Chicks, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 20, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Greene (argued), Maura F.J. Whelan, Office of the Attorney General, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Riyaz A. Kanji, Kanji & Katzen, Ann Arbor, MI, Cory J. Albright (argued), Kanji & Katzen, Seattle, WA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

The Stockbridge-Munsee Indians (the Tribe) are comprised of descendants of the Mohican Tribe who migrated westward and eventually arrived in Wisconsin in the 1820s. In 1856, the United States entered into a treaty and created a reservation for the Tribe consisting of two townships (Bartelme and Red Springs) in Shawano County, Wisconsin, some 40 miles northwest of Green Bay. The issue in this case is straightforward—are the boundaries of...

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