Addressing While Indian tribe is official US Gov t lingo saying tribe twice in the first sentence and then again in the second is awkward also the tribe is not a monolithic entity but rather a collection of people so maybe reword to say something like The Coeur d Alene people once inhabited 3 500 000 acres 1 400 000 ha in northern Idaho and Washington 2 3 And Montana actually note article on the tribe but today the only land controlled by the tribal nation is the Coeur d Alene Reservation in Benewah and Kootenai counties Idaho 4 You don t have to use my wording but you see how I am distinguishing land and people though the two are of course closely intertwined Boomer Second and third paragraphs jump around and need another copyedit I d put right up front that Johnson did the executive order but Congress never acted on it then go on about how the tribe didn t accept it anyway Keep the chronology clearer Interesting that the Coeur d Alene article says nothing about this period maybe finish here and add a bit to that article too hmmm From a VERY cursory review of the decision it appears that gap between creation of the reservation and Idaho s statehood becomes significant in this case so perhaps give us a bit of foreshadowing that this is not just a dry fact but it s something that s going to matter The section fails to draw out the significance of the info on the state park and mining maybe add a wee bit to hint at why this will matter in the SCOTUS case