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University of Oklahoma College of Law

2004

Tribal sovereignty

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Colonizing The Last Frontier, David J. Bloch Jan 2004

Colonizing The Last Frontier, David J. Bloch

American Indian Law Review

In Aboriginal Rights and Judicial Wrongs: The Colonization of the Last Frontier, I examine a recent sea-change in federal Indian law that has escaped the notice of scholars. In the light of the divestiture of tribal sovereignty characterizing recent Supreme Court decisions, my article interrogates a contemporary case that rejects the property principle underlying all of federal Indian law itself in favor of a conception of aboriginal title never before countenanced in the United States and long discredited elsewhere. My analysis argues that this new conception traduces 175 years of American precedent and violates international law. I also contend that …


Applying Twenty-Five Years Of Experience: The Iowa Indian Child Welfare Act, Kirk Albertson Jan 2004

Applying Twenty-Five Years Of Experience: The Iowa Indian Child Welfare Act, Kirk Albertson

American Indian Law Review

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