Wichita Indian Tribe and Its Affiliated Bands and Groups, Namely, the Keechi, Tawakonie, and Waco v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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• clarifying that other tribes’ “continuous[] wander[ing]” through claimant tribe’s land could “disrupt[] the [claimant tribe’s] exclusivity of use”
• offering an alter- nate definition of “periphery” as a “[s]urrounding space; the area lying beyond the boundaries of a thing. Now Rare.”
• concurring with Lipan Apache Tribe in that “when a tribunal admits that a tribe holds aboriginal title to a tract of land, that tribunal cannot dismiss the case without a showing of abandonment or extinguishment”
• “[W]hen a tribunal admits that a tribe holds aboriginal title to a tract of land, that tribunal cannot dismiss the case without a showing of abandonment or extinguishment[.]”
• “Clearly, the northern two-thirds of Oklahoma where the Osage also hunted cannot have been used exclusively by the Wichitas. Lands continuously wandered over by adverse tribes cannot be claimed by any one of those tribes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).