NAMEN v. CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION, MONTANA

No. 82-22.

459 U.S. 977 (1982)

NAMEN ET AL. v. CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION, MONTANA, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

November 1, 1982.


Certiorari denied.

JUSTICE REHNQUIST, with whom JUSTICE WHITE joins, dissenting.

In deciding these cases, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that (1) the historic Flathead Reservation was not terminated by an Act of Congress in 1904; (2) by virtue of the Treaty of Hell Gate the title to the bed and banks of the south half of Flathead Lake, a large inland lake in northwestern Montana, was retained by the United States as trustee for respondent...

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