YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE v. U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGIN.

No. 08-2255.

606 F.3d 895 (2010)

YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: June 2, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rebecca L. Kidder, argued, Charles Abourezk, on the brief, Rapid City, SD, for appellant.

John P. Guhin, AAG, Pierre, SD, and Mark E. Salter, AUSA, argued, Sioux Falls, SD, Jan Leslie Holmgren, AUSA, Sioux Falls, SD., Meghan N. Dilges, AAG, Pierre, SD, on the brief, for appellees.

Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, BYE, Circuit Judge, and MILLER, District Judge.


LOKEN, Chief Judge.

An 1858 treaty between the United States and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of Native Americans established the Yankton Sioux Reservation (the "Reservation"), comprising approximately 430,000 acres in what is now Charles Mix County, South Dakota, bounded on the south and west by the Missouri River. This appeal attacks the validity of land transfers by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the State of South Dakota. It is resolved by our determination of...

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