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Fencing The Buffalo: Off-Reservation Gaming And Possible Amendments To Section 20 Of The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, Tess Johnson
Fencing The Buffalo: Off-Reservation Gaming And Possible Amendments To Section 20 Of The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, Tess Johnson
UNLV Gaming Law Journal
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A Post-Carcieri Vocabulary Exercise: What If "Now" Really Means "Then"?, Heidi M. Staudenmaier, Ruth K. Khalsa
A Post-Carcieri Vocabulary Exercise: What If "Now" Really Means "Then"?, Heidi M. Staudenmaier, Ruth K. Khalsa
UNLV Gaming Law Journal
When the Indian Reorganization Act1 (“IRA”) was passed in 1934, it officially defined an “Indian” as a member of a recognized tribe “now under federal jurisdiction.” For nearly three-quarters of a century, this definition of an Indian and an Indian tribe — hallmarked by the four-word phrase “now under federal jurisdiction” — guided federal policy and agency action on a host of matters, including management of federal lands, land-into-trust acquisitions made on behalf of tribes, and — after 1988 — application of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (“IGRA”).
In February 2009, however, the United States Supreme Court upended seventy-five years …