Arthur L. McDonald Rita McDonald Karla McDonald Justin D. McDonald v. Patti Means Kale Means, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Intervenor-Appellant v. Usdc-Billings, Arthur L. McDonald Rita McDonald Karla McDonald Justin D. McDonald v. Patti Means Kale Means

300 F.3d 1037 Arthur L. McDONALD; Rita McDonald; Karla McDonald; Justin D. McDonald, Plaintiffs, v. Patti MEANS; Kale Means, Defendants, The Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Intervenor-Appellant, v. USDC-Billings, Appellee. Arthur L. McDonald; Rita McDonald; Karla McDonald; Justin D. McDonald, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Patti Means; Kale Means, Defendants-Appellants. No. 99-36166. No. 00-35002. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 6, 2001. Filed August 14, 2002. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Steven A. Kelly, Lame Deer, MT, for the intervenor-appellant. Clarence Belue, Billings, MT, for the defendants-appellants. Gregory G. Murphy, Moulton, Bellingham, Longo & Mather, P.C., Billings, MT, for the plaintiffs-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana; Jack D. Shanstrom, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-99-00064-JDS. Before: BROWNING, WALLACE and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges. BROWNING, Circuit Judge. 1 This case arises from an accident on Route 5, a Bureau of Indian Affairs ("BIA") road within the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Big Horn County, Montana. On the evening of May 2, 1998, Kale Means, a member…