{"id":491,"date":"2016-11-13T17:02:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nixlaw.wpengine.com\/?post_type=news&p=491"},"modified":"2025-08-13T08:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:14:15","slug":"crow-creek-tribe-sues-u-s-government-for-200-million","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/practice-areas\/governmental-and-sovereign-representation\/crow-creek-tribe-sues-u-s-government-for-200-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Crow Creek Tribe Sues U.S. Government for $200 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, which resides on a reservation on the eastern banks of the Missouri River in central South Dakota north of Chamberlain, is locked in a legal showdown with the federal government in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.<\/p>\n

The tribe contends its reservation of land includes rights to Missouri River water that the government has long allowed others to use illegally. Now, the tribe wants $200 million as compensation and also wants its water rights measured, or “quantified,” in the language of the tribe’s formal complaint. The government disputes the tribe’s claims and has filed a motion to dismiss them.<\/p>\n

Nix, Patterson, LLP has a long history of vindicating the rights of tribal nations. NPR helped win a $186 million payment from the U.S. government for the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes in August 2015. The payment settled 100-year old claims that the government failed to protect tribal timber interests.<\/p>\n

The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is represented by NP partner Michael Angelovich and Of Counsel<\/em> attorney\u00a0Austin Tighe.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Rapid City Journal<\/em> article can be viewed below:<\/p>\n

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