Talk:Menominee Tribe v. United States

Reversion of deletion
I reverted a deletion of part of the article. It was claimed that the matter was OpEd, while in fact it was part of the facts of the case. I'll post more in just a few minutes. GregJackP  Boomer!  22:48, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

The material that was deleted from the lead is as follows:

"In 1963, three members of the tribe were charged with violating Wisconsin's hunting and fishing laws on what had formerly been reservation land for over 100 years. The tribal members were acquitted, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that the Menominee tribe no longer had hunting and fishing rights due to the termination action by Congress. The tribe then sued the United States for compensation in the U.S. Court of Claims, which ruled that tribal members still had hunting and fishing rights and that Congress had not abrogated those rights. The opposite rulings by the state and federal courts brought the issue to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court held that the tribe retained its hunting and fishing rights under the treaties involved and the rights were not lost after federal recognition was ended by the Menominee Termination Act without a clear and unequivocal statement removing those rights by Congress."

The lead is supposed to be a summary of the article (see WP:LEAD). The removed text is directly relevant to the case. See State enforcement actions section, where the three members of the tribe were charged for hunting violations, and the material was properly cited. The rest of the deleted material was likewise present in the body of the article, and properly cited throughout. The material is not OpEd in any way, form, or manner. GregJackP  Boomer!  22:58, 28 August 2012 (UTC)


 * GregJack, you were way too hasty in reading the changes and in reverting the whole article. If you look more closely at the article history, you will see I did not delete all that material as you claim, but simply the word "even", together with making minor style changes. I made two paragraphs from the first paragraph of the Lead and some minor editing. There were no substantive changes. My second paragraph read:

"In 1963, three members of the tribe were charged with violating Wisconsin's hunting and fishing laws on what had been reservation land for more than 100 years. The tribal members were acquitted, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that the Menominee tribe no longer had hunting and fishing rights due to the termination action by Congress. The tribe sued the United States for compensation in the U.S. Court of Claims, which ruled that tribal members still had hunting and fishing rights and that Congress had not abrogated those rights. The opposite rulings by the state and federal courts brought the issue to the US Supreme Court. The Supreme Court held that the tribe retained its hunting and fishing rights under the historical treaties and did not lose those rights after federal recognition was ended by the Menominee Termination Act, as Congress had not made a clear and unequivocal statement removing those rights. by." Yes, there's a typo - the "by" at the end should be deleted.Parkwells (talk) 00:14, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Since this is an encyclopedia article rather than a legal brief, I added material on changes in federal policies - for instance, the shift toward termination, as well as the shift away from it (the latter under Nixon) and made other additions. I also did much editing for style and clarity.Parkwells (talk) 00:12, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 May 2015
missing preposition in the second line of the "Federal Court of Claims" section; currently says "arising out the Wolf River Treaty," and should say "arising out of the Wolf River Treaty."

Scottjaeschke (talk) 20:08, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Done. GregJackP   Boomer!   03:19, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on Menominee Tribe v. United States. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://web.archive.org/web/20100925020848/http%3A//menominee-nsn.gov/history/history.php
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://web.archive.org/web/20130622220529/http%3A//law.jrank.org/pages/1668/Police-Organization-Management-American-system-policing.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130622220529/http://law.jrank.org/pages/1668/Police-Organization-Management-American-system-policing.html to http://law.jrank.org/pages/1668/Police-Organization-Management-American-system-policing.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 19:48, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Menominee Tribe v. United States. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100915145744/http://supreme.justia.com/us/391/404/case.html to http://supreme.justia.com/us/391/404/case.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 12:12, 20 May 2017 (UTC)