Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians

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Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 2, 1998 Decided March 24, 1999
Full case name: State of Minnesota et al. v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians et al. Citations: 526 U.S. 172; 526 U.S. 172, 119 S.Ct. 1187, 143 L.Ed.2d 270, 67 USLW 4189, 29 Envtl. L. Rep. 20,557, 99 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 2104, 1999 Daily Journal D.A.R. 2735, 12 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 162 Prior history: 861 F. Supp. 784 (D. Minn. 1994), aff'd, 124 F.3d 904 (8th Cir. 1997), cert. granted, 524 U.S. 915 (1998).
Holding
The Chippewa Indians retain usufructuary rights on the lands they ceded to the federal government in 1837.
Court membership
Chief Justice: William Rehnquist Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority by: O'Connor Joined by: Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer Dissent by: Rehnquist Joined by: Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas Dissent by: Thomas

Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians, 526 U.S. 172 (1999), was a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the usufructuary rights of the Chippewa tribe to certain lands it had ceded to the federal government in 1837. The Court ruled that the Chippewa retained certain hunting, fishing, and gathering rights on the ceded land.