RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS v. STATE OF MINN.

No. 79-1420.

614 F.2d 1161 (1980)

RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS, Appellant, v. STATE OF MINNESOTA et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 31, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney J. Edwards, Edwards, Edwards & Bodin, Duluth, Minn., for appellant.

James M. Schoessler, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Natural Resources, St. Paul, Minn., for appellee; Warren R. Spannaus, Atty. Gen., C. Paul Faraci, Deputy Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Minn., on brief.

Tom Tobin, Tobin Law Offices, Winner, S. D., for intervenors-appellees; Aurel L. Ekvall, Clearwater County Atty., Bagley, Minn., William W. Shakely and David Albert Mustone, Washington, D. C., on brief.

Before ROSS and HENLEY, Circuit Judges, and PORTER, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians appeals from the decision of the district court1 in which its claims of hunting, fishing, trapping, and wild rice gathering rights in approximately 2.6 million acres of land in the state of Minnesota were denied.

This dispute arises out of the circumstances surrounding the Band's cession of two parcels of land to the federal government in 1889 and 1904,2

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