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DEVILS LAKE SIOUX TRIBE v. STATE OF N.D.

Civ. No. A2-86-87.

714 F.Supp. 1019 (1989)

DEVILS LAKE SIOUX TRIBE, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA; the Garrison Conservancy District; the United States of America; 101 Ranch, a North Dakota Partnership; Steve Ward; Imogene Christensen; Claire Engelhardt; Carlyle Brye; Arnold and Vernyll Yri; Ernest and Ruby Martinson; Miles and Dorothea Maddock; Olaf and Mabel Solheim; Leo and Minnie Johnston; and Francis P. and Gloria Schneider, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. North Dakota, Northeastern Division.

April 18, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas B.L. Endreson, Sonosky, Chambers & Sachse, Washington, D.C. (Marvin J. Sonosky, of counsel), and Lreen Steffan, Tribal Atty., Ft. Totten, N.D., for plaintiff.

Atty. Gen. Nicholas Spaeth, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen. Murray G. Sagsveen and Michael Fiergola, Bismarck, N.D., for State of N.D.

Rodney S. Webb, U.S. Atty., Fargo, N.D. (K. Jack Haugrud, Gen. Litigation Sec., Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., of counsel), and Margot Zellan, Dept. of Interior, Denver, Colo., for U.S.

Frank T. Knox, Lanier, Knox & Olson, Fargo, N.D., for 101 Ranch and independent defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BENSON, Senior District Judge.

The subject matter of this case is the ownership of the bed of Devils Lake, a large lake located in northeastern North Dakota. The lake is adjacent to the Devils Lake Sioux Tribe Indian Reservation. The specific issue presented is whether the lake is part of that reservation. The plaintiff, the Devils Lake Sioux Tribe, claims that the United States holds title...

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