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Youpee, William, Executive Director of the National Tribal Chairmen's Association; Sioux and Assiniboine Tribal Member

 Person

Biographical:

William Youpee was an enrolled member of the Sioux and Assiniboine Tribes - See landmark case Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior, et al. v. Marvin K. Youpee, Sr., et al., 519 U.S. 234, 117 S. Ct. 727; 136 L. Ed. 2d 696.

A provision which escheats property to tribe upon owner's death any fractional interest in allotment which constitutes less than two percent of the allotment and has not produced $100 in income over the past five years, unless it is devised or descends to owner of another fractional interest in the allotment, works an unconstitutional taking

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Enrollment Issues at Institute of the Southern Plains, Inc., 1973-01-01 - 1976-12-31

 Item — Box 34: Series CAC_CC_003_2_0000_0000_0000, Folder: 1
Identifier: CAC_CC_003_2_34_1_0006

Enrollment Issues at Institute of the Southern Plains, Inc., 1973-01-01 - 1973-12-31

 Item — Box 26: Series CAC_CC_009_1_0000_0000_0000, Folder: 20
Identifier: CAC_CC_009_1_26_20_0017

Menominee Restoration Act Interpretation: Enrollments and Descendants, 1973-01-01 - 1974-12-31

 Item — Box 33: Series CAC_CC_003_2_0000_0000_0000, Folder: 11
Identifier: CAC_CC_003_2_33_11_0001