Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians

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 (more) 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
Case history
Prior	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 Ojibwe (Chippewa) retain usufructuary rights on the lands they ceded to the federal government in 1837.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	O'Connor, joined by Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
Dissent	Rehnquist, joined by Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas
Dissent	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 Ojibwe (Chippewa) tribe to certain lands it had ceded to the federal government in 1837. The Court ruled that the Ojibwe retained certain hunting, fishing, and gathering rights on the ceded land.