Opinion ID: 2507200
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Federal Superintendence

Text: {8} While the federal set-aside requirement ensures that the land in question is occupied by an Indian community, the federal superintendence requirement guarantees that the Indian community is sufficiently `dependent' on the Federal Government that the Federal Government and the Indians involved, rather than the States, are to exercise primary jurisdiction over the land in question. Venetie, 522 U.S. at 531, 118 S.Ct. 948. However, having made the determination that the first prong of Venetie is not met in this case, the second prong does not need to be addressed. See id. at 530, 118 S.Ct. 948 (concluding that, in enacting § 1151(b), Congress indicated that a federal set-aside and a federal superintendence requirement must be satisfied for a finding of a `dependent Indian community'). Thus, because we have already determined that there was no federal set-aside in this case, the land in question cannot qualify as a dependent Indian community.