 The tribe sued the United States for compensation in the U.S. Court of Claims , which ruled that tribal members still had hunting and fishing rights and that Congress had not abrogated those rights . The opposite rulings by the state and federal courts brought the issue to the Supreme Court . In 1968 , the Supreme Court held that the tribe retained its hunting and fishing rights under the treaties involved and the rights were not lost after federal recognition was ended by the Menominee Indian Termination Act without a clear and unequivocal statement by Congress removing those rights . 
