LAC Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Voigt

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1983-01-25

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PELL, Circuit Judge. The principal case on this consolidated appeal, Lac Courte Oreilles Band v. Voight (LCO) was an action for a declaratory judgment that a band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians (LCO band) has retained treaty-reserved off-reservation hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering rights, collectively termed “usufructuary rights,” in public lands in the northern third of Wisconsin and that such rights pr…

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