Indian Hunter Fires 1st Salvo In Merits Stage Of Treaty Rights Case

Mealey's (September 6, 2018, 4:17 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Wyoming court’s finding that an Indian tribe’s right to hunt under an 1868 treaty ends at the border of its reservation must be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court because both parties to the treaty — the tribe and the United States — agree that neither Wyoming’s establishment as a state nor the creation of a national forest extinguished the right to hunt anywhere in the state, a tribal member arrested for killing an elk in the national forest argues in his Sept. 4 brief on the merits (Clayvin B. Herrera v. Wyoming, No. 17-532, U.S. Sup.)....