Disputed Tract Is Part Of Reservation, Washington Federal Judge Declares

Mealey's (August 29, 2019, 1:27 PM EDT) -- YAKIMA, Wash. — A Washington federal judge on Aug. 28 declared that a disputed 121,000-acre tract of land in the state “is located within the exterior boundaries of the Yakama Reservation established by the Treaty of 1855,” that the state’s juvenile delinquency laws no longer apply to Indians within the reservation and that traffic offenses committed by Indians are governed by federal and tribal law, not state law (Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation v. Klickitat County, et al., No. 1:17-cv-03192, E.D. Wash.)....