061150P.pdf   06/01/2007  State of SD  v.  Dept. of Interior
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-1150
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Bowman and Colloton, Circuit
   Judges]
   Civil case - Indian law. Department of Interior's decision to take land
   into trust for the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe affirmed; Section 5 of the
   Indian Reorganization Act is constitutional; Secretary acted within his
   authority in acquiring the land and he considered the relevant factors and
   acted within his discretion in granting the Tribe's application; Secretary
   adequately considered the factors under 25 C.F.R. Sec. 151.10(f) in
   deciding jurisdictional and land use problems.
  
061150P.pdf   01/29/2007  State of SD  v.  Dept. of Interior
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-1150
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Bowman and Colloton, Circuit
   Judges]
   Civil case - Indian law. The Secretary of the Interior did not err in
   granting the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe's application to take into trust
   310 acres the Tribe had purchased; in making the decision, the Secretary
   was acting within his authority and considered all of the relevant factors
   (including the need for the Tribe to be self-supporting and the economic
   benefit acquisition of the land would give the Tribe) in making the
   decision; given Congress's broad definition of the phrase "Indian
   Country," the district court did not err in determining that the land taken
   into trust for the Tribe constituted "Indian Country."