Judges In Denver Must Decide Wyoming’s Wind River Boundary Dispute

DENVER (AP) — A panel of federal judges in Denver is deciding whether the City of Riverton and surrounding lands remain legally Indian Country.
A three-judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday in a case that revealed longstanding tensions between Wyoming’s two Indian tribes and non-Indians.
The case hinges on how judges interpret a 1905 decision by Congress that threw open some 1.4 million acres of the Wind River Indian Reservation to settlement by non