RENO, Nev. (AP) — The 81-year-old former chief of the Western Shoshone National Council who lives in Nevada is suing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for $30 million in a decades-old dispute over tribal treaty rights and the seizure of his cattle.
The BLM says it confiscated Raymond Yowell’s cattle in May 2002 because they were trespassing on federal land in northeast Nevada without a grazing permit.
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