Justice Breyer, concurring. I join the Court’s opinion with three qualifications. First, I cannot say that the statute’s language by itself is determinative. Linguistically speaking, the word “now” in the phrase “now under Federal jurisdiction,” 25 U. S. C. §479 , may refer to a tribe’s jurisdictional status as of 1934. But one could also read it to refer to the…
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