Jacobson, Buffalo's attorneys have worked on both trust- and fee-land acquisitions, construction contracts, title issues relating to current or former Indian land, tribal land-base restoration, conveyances of tribal fee land into trust, tribal and individual land claims, disputes among allottees, fractionated heirship issues, reservation housing, and easements through reservations. We also have a wealth of experience in commercial, industrial, and residential real estate matters, including purchases and sales, leases, land use planning, subdivision development, easements, title matters, boundary disputes, water rights and utility issues both on fee land and on or adjacent to trust land.
We represent lenders, developers, and landowners on financing arrangements for all types of real estate projects. We also have expertise in environmental matters, regulatory approvals, taxation and other areas that support our real estate work.
We have represented numerous tribes in their fee-to-trust application processes for over 200 parcels of tribally owned fee land, and we have good working relationships with several regional BIA offices and the central office in Washington, D.C.
Our lawyers recently secured federal legislation mandating the refund of nearly 1300 acres from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the U.S. in trust for a tribe. The lands had been lost in the 1930s.
We have developed tribal land use plans. We have also represented an individual allottee against a tribal government for the tribal government's improper taking of an advertising easement on the allotment.
