Billings, Mont. • The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a case in which a Crow tribal member and former tribal game warden from Montana is asserting his right under a 150-year-old treaty with the U.S. government to hunt elk in the Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming, The Billings Gazette reports.
A ruling could resolve disagreements among lower courts with regard to tribal treaty rights, U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote last month in recommending the high court take up the case.
“This case affects numerous other tribes, as no fewer than 19 federal treaties protect the ‘right to hunt on federal lands away from the respective reservations,’” attorneys for former game warden Clayvin Herrera noted asking the Supreme Court to decide the case.