Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians | |
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Argued December 2, 1998 Decided March 24, 1999 | |
Full case name | State of Minnesota et al. v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians et al. |
Citations | 526 U.S. 172 (more) 119 S.Ct. 1187; 143 L. Ed. 2d 270; 67 USLW 4189; 29 Envtl. L. Rep. 20,557; 99 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 2104; 1999 Daily Journal D.A.R. 2735; 12 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 162 |
Case history | |
Prior | 861 F. Supp. 784 (D. Minn. 1994), aff'd, 124 F.3d 904 (8th Cir. 1997), cert. granted, 524 U.S. 915 (1998). |
Holding | |
The Ojibwe (Chippewa) retain usufructuary rights on the lands they ceded to the federal government in 1837. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | O'Connor, joined by Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer |
Dissent | Rehnquist, joined by Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas |
Dissent | Thomas |
Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians, 526 U.S. 172 (1999), was a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the usufructuary rights of the Ojibwe (Chippewa) tribe to certain lands it had ceded to the federal government in 1837. The Court ruled that the Ojibwe retained certain hunting, fishing, and gathering rights on the ceded land.