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· 6/30/1989

Edna Emerson Littlewolf v. Manuel Lujan, Jr., Secretary of the Interior

Citations

  • 877 F.2d 1058
  • 278 U.S. App. D.C. 270
  • 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 9421
  • 1989 WL 70479

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that “the Chippewa Indian Tribe ceded substantial territory in Minnesota to the United States in return for payments and the creation of the 830,000–acre White Earth Reservation”
  • Congress’s power is “ ‘subject to limitations inhering in ... a guardianship and to pertinent constitutional restrictions’ ”

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Judges: Robinson, Starr, Buckley

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