Lacks Plausibility <\/strong><\/h2>\nBut a summary judgment issued by Judge Paul L. Maloney disagreed with the tribe\u2019s interpretation of the treaty. He wrote, \u201cIt cannot plausibly be read to create an Indian reservation, even when giving effect to the terms as the Indian signatories would have understood them and even when resolving any ambiguities in the Treaty text in favor of the Indians.\u201d<\/p>\n
“The Tribe asserts that their predecessors understood that a treaty requiring the United States to withdraw land from sale for their benefit created an Indian reservation,\u201d he added. \u201cBut when the Treaty is placed in the relevant historical context, it cannot plausibly be read to have created an Indian reservation, and the Tribe\u2019s predecessors did not believe that it did so.”<\/p>\n
Tribal chairwoman Regina Gasco-Bentley told Michigan Radio the tribe is currently considering whether to appeal and had no further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (LTBBOI), which operates the Odawa Casino Resort in Petoskey, Michigan, has failed in its legal bid to have a vast area of land declared its sovereign territory. In the 2016 lawsuit filed against then-Michigan governor Rick Snyder, the Odawa argued that a 337-square mile tract encompassing Emmet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":113226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Odawa Tribal Operator Lawsuit to Expand Reservation in Michigan Tossed<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n