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

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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

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