( December 1, 2023, 3:53 PM EST) -- POPLAR, Mont. — Whether two defendants currently being detained by the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribe of the Fort Peck Reservation are “Indian persons” and thus subject to the Fort Peck Tribal Court’s criminal jurisdiction is a factual issue that must be determined by the trier of fact, a Fort Peck Court of Appeals panel found in staying consideration of the two defendants’ petitions for writ of habeas corpus....