ELR Citation: ELR 20027
No(s). s. 98-3893 et al (8th Cir. Aug 31, 1999)

The court holds that the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota does not have tribal jurisdiction over reservation lands that fell out of U.S. government trust and eventually passed to non-Native Americans. An 1894 Act of Congress ceded certain reservation lands to the United States in trust for the tr...