Supreme Court rules in favor of Native American rights in Wyoming hunting case.
Source: CNN
The US Supreme Court on Monday sided with a Wyoming Native American tribe, ruling that a 19th-century treaty between the tribe and the state did not expire when Wyoming became a state.
The court ruled in favor of Native American rights in a 5-4 decision. In her majority opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor -- joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch -- wrote that an 1868 treaty between the Crow Tribe and the United States in which the tribe ceded most of its territory in modern-day Wyoming so its members would have a right to hunt on "unoccupied" parts of the land did not expire after Wyoming gained statehood.
"There is also no evidence in the treaty itself that Congress intended the hunting right to expire at statehood, or that the Crow Tribe would have understood it to do so. Nor does the historical record support such a reading of the treaty," Sotomayor wrote in the opinion.
The case concerned Clayvin Herrera, a member of the Crow Tribe who was charged in 2014 with off-season hunting in Bighorn National Forest, according to the court. A Wyoming trial court rejected Herrera's claim that, per the treaty, he had a right to hunt in the forest, the high court said. A jury convicted Herrera, who then appealed the case to the Supreme Court.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/20/politics/supreme-court-native-americans-rights-crow-tribe/index.html
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