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<br />Zoning Bulletin <br /> <br />Tribal Lands-Tribe asks government to add land to trust <br /> <br />State and county claim ~cquisition exceeds government's authority <br /> <br />Citation: South Dakota v. U.S. Dept. of InteTior, 2007 WL 1574588 <br />(8th Cir. 2007) <br /> <br />The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has jurisdiction over Arkansas, <br />Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. <br /> <br />SOUTI-I DAKOTA (06/0l/07)-The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe <br />purchased 310 acres adjacent 'EO its reservation in Moody County. The <br />tribe submitted an application with rhe Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) <br />requesting that the U.S. Department of the Interior (Department) take <br />the land into a trust for rhe tribe's benefit in accordance with the In- <br />dian Reorganization Act (Act). Although the tribe had a thriving gam- <br />ing industry on its existing property, it identified future housing de- <br />velopment and agricultural use only as the potential land uses on the <br />new properry. <br />In its application, me tribe srated that it had grown dramatically over <br />the past 30 years, but its land base had not increased. It described the <br /> <br />C"y,",".. .~"j.~~~1~~1~L'~~~!:r~~~':,F <br /> <br />()rotherpr6feS5lon~I:-'. '. .... .... . .... . _.". " ....... <br /> <br />- ',.Zocing '"ulietin ispublished:andcopy.rigt"ted by ];horns0I'1ANesl;,6"0,qJ:lpe~""an.Driv_e,.p:O,Box 64Q6 <br />St.. Pauf, MN ~"64'0526.For subscriptiom Il'1forrnation: call (800-) 22Q.2084, or wciteWest, -Credit <br />Order Processing, 620 Opperman Drive, PO Box 64833, St. Pa",r, MN 55,64.9753. <br /> <br />POSTMASTER: Send address changes to. Zoning Bulletin, 61;0 Opperman Drive, P.O. Box 64526 St. <br />Paul, MN 55"64-0526. <br /> <br /> <br />THOMSON <br />* <br />\illEST <br /> <br />610 Opperman Drive' P.O. Box 54526' St. Paul, IvlN 55164-0526 <br />1.800-229-2084 . email: west.customerservice@thomson.com.west.thomson.com/quinlan <br />ISSN 0514.7905 . @2007ThomsonANest. All Rights Reserved. Quinlan™ is a ThomsonANest brand. <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />102 <br />