page_title: United States v. Antelope
section_title: Antelope's crime
hierarchical_section_title: United States v. Antelope / Background / Antelope's crime
caption_attribution_description: English: A map of the original Coeur d'Alene territory and the subsequent reservation.
context_page_description: United States v. Antelope, 430 U.S. 641, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that American Indians convicted on reservation land were not deprived of the equal protection of the laws; the federal criminal statutes are not based on impermissible racial classifications but on political membership in an Indian tribe or nation; and the challenged statutes do not violate equal protection. Indians or non-Indians can be charged with first-degree murder committed in a federal enclave.
context_section_description: In February 1974, Gabriel Francis Antelope, Leonard Francis Davison, William Andrew Davison, and Norbert Hillary Seyler broke into the home of 81-year-old Emma Teresa Johnson, burglarized the home and beat Johnson to death with their hands and feet. All four were members of the Coeur d'Alene tribe and Johnson was a non-Indian living within the boundaries of the Coeur d'Alene Reservation.
caption: Map showing location of Coeur d'Alene reservation
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