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· 4/27/1989

United States v. Mary Dann Carrie Dann, United States of America v. Mary Dann Carrie Dann

Citations

  • 873 F.2d 1189

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the Dann sisters' individual land title was restricted to land that they or their descendants occupied before 1934, and restricting animal number and type that could graze
  • noting that the Indian tribe must continue to occupy the claimed area until the date of extinguishment
  • The ICC “simply had jurisdiction to award damages for takings or other wrongs that occurred on or before August 13, 1946”
  • “Even Indian treaty rights, when shared with others on the public lands or waters, are subject to reasonable regulation that is shown to be essential to the conservation of the common resources and does not discriminate against the Indians.”
  • shared individual aboriginal grazing rights recognized

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Judges: Fletcher, Poole, Canby

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