The following excerpt is from Native Vill. of Eyak v. Blank, D.C. No. 3:98-cv-00365-HRH, No. 09-35881 (9th Cir. 2012):
We previously remanded to the district court for the limited purpose of determining "what aboriginal rights, if any, the villages have" on the OCS, and instructed the district court to "assume that the villages' aboriginal rights, if any, have not been abrogated by the federal paramountcy doctrine or other federal law." Eyak Native Village v. Daley, 375 F.3d 1218, 1219 (9th Cir. 2004) (en banc).
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