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In the United States, off-reservation trust land refers to real estate outside an Indian reservation that is held by the Interior Department for the benefit of a Native American tribe or a member of a tribe. Typical uses of off-reservation trust land include housing, agriculture or forestry, and community services such as health care and ...
A state designated American Indian reservation is the land area designated by a state for state ... do not have a reservation or off-reservation trust land. ...
The Mohegan Sun, developed on land taken in trust for the Mohegan as a product of settlement. Indian Land Claims Settlements are settlements of Native American land claims by the United States Congress, codified in 25 U.S.C. ch. 19. In several instances, these settlements ended live claims of aboriginal title in the United States. The first two ...
Dec. 13—PINE ISLAND — The U.S. Department of the Interior moved 400 acres of Olmsted County land owned by the Prairie Island Indian Community into trust Friday, clearing the way for "an ...
Houston, 393 F. Supp. 719 (holding that tribal law and not state law governs the custody of children domiciled on reservation land) Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, 435 U.S. 191 (1978) (holding that Indian tribal courts do not have inherent criminal jurisdiction to try and to punish non-Indians, and hence may not assume such jurisdiction ...
The case would go back and forth through 2022 when a U.S. District Court decision asserted that the Interior Department Bureau of Indian Affairs could hold land in trust for the tribe.
United States v. White Mountain Apache Tribe, 537 U.S. 465 (2003), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held in a 5–4 decision that when the federal government used land or property held in trust for an Indian tribe, it had the duty to maintain that land or property and was liable for any damages for a breach of that duty.
[11] Seven months after the Supreme Court's decision to grant, vacate, and remand, the DOI removed the land in question from trust. [10] In 1997, the Lower Brulé Sioux submitted an amended trust application to the DOI, requesting that the United States take the 91 acres (370,000 m 2) of land into trust on the Tribe's behalf. South Dakota ...