Bugenig v. Hoopa Valley Tribe

ELR Citation: ELR 20165
No(s). 99-15654 (9th Cir. Oct 3, 2000)

The court holds that a Native American tribe in California cannot regulate land use of fee-patented private property within its reservation boundary. A nonmember of the tribe that owned her land in fee sought to harvest timber. After receiving a state logging permit, the property owner sent a check ...