Does a non-Indian plaintiff have jurisdiction to sue for damages from an Indian Tribe?

6 United States v. Wheeler, 435 U.S. 313, 323, 98 S.Ct. 1079, 1086, 55 L.Ed.2d 303 (1978) (the Indian Tribe's "incorporation within the territory of the United States, and their acceptance of its protection, necessarily divested them of some aspects of the sovereignty which they had previously exercised") (footnote omitted).

7 See also Littell v. Nakai, 344 F.2d 486, 490 (9th Cir.1965), cert. denied, 382 U.S. 986, 86 S.Ct. 531, 15 L.Ed.2d 474 (1966). There, this court rejected the argument that since some of the alleged acts between the non-Indian and Indian occurred off the reservation, the tribal court had no jurisdiction over the non-Indian. The locus of some particular act, we held, is not conclusive as to tribal jurisdiction.