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The Supreme Court's Last 30 Years Of Federal Indian Law: Looking For Equilibrium Or Supremacy?, Alexander Tallchief Skibine
The Supreme Court's Last 30 Years Of Federal Indian Law: Looking For Equilibrium Or Supremacy?, Alexander Tallchief Skibine
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
Since 1831, Indian nations have been viewed as Domestic Dependent Nations located within the geographical boundaries of the United States. Although Chief Justice John Marshall acknowledged that Indian nations had a certain amount of sovereignty, the exact extent of such sovereignty as well as the place of tribes within the federal system has remained ill-defined. This Article examines what has been the role of the Supreme Court in integrating Indian nations as the third Sovereign within our federalist system. The Article accomplishes this task by examining the Court’s Indian law record in the last 30 years. The comprehensive survey of …
Lewis V. Clarke, Summer L. Carmack
Lewis V. Clarke, Summer L. Carmack
Public Land & Resources Law Review
One manner in which Indian tribes exercise their inherent sovereignty is by asserting sovereign immunity. In Lewis v. Clarke, the Court decided that the sovereign immunity extended to instrumentalities of tribes did not further extend to tribal employees acting within the scope of their employment. The Court acknowledged the concerns of the lower court, namely, the possibility of setting a precedent allowing future plaintiffs to sidestep a tribe’s sovereign immunity by suing a tribal employee in his individual capacity. However, the Supreme Court ultimately felt that the immunity of tribal employees should not exceed the immunity extended to state …
Akiachak Native Community V. United States Department Of Interior, Lillian M. Alvernaz
Akiachak Native Community V. United States Department Of Interior, Lillian M. Alvernaz
Public Land & Resources Law Review
Alaska Native Tribes have long been classified differently than the federally recognized Indian tribes in the rest of the country. The Akiachak decision contributes to the shifting treatment of Alaska Native Tribes and clarifies their relationship with the federal government. The ability to put land into trust is essential to the protection of generations to come and the exercise of sovereign authority. By enabling Alaska Native tribes the ability to petition to put tribally owned fee land in trust, the DOI promotes and encourages tribal self-governance and empowerment.
Traditional Problems: Gay Marriage And The Backlash Against Indian Sovereignty, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Traditional Problems: Gay Marriage And The Backlash Against Indian Sovereignty, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Traditional Problems: How Tribal Same-Sex Marriage Bans Threaten Tribal Sovereignty, Marcia Zug
Traditional Problems: How Tribal Same-Sex Marriage Bans Threaten Tribal Sovereignty, Marcia Zug
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
No abstract provided.
Close To Zero: The Reliance On Minimum Blood Quantum Requirements To Eliminate Tribal Citizenship In The Allotment Acts And The Post-Adoptive Couple Challenges To The Constitutionality Of Icwa, Abi Fain, Mary Kathryn Nagle
Close To Zero: The Reliance On Minimum Blood Quantum Requirements To Eliminate Tribal Citizenship In The Allotment Acts And The Post-Adoptive Couple Challenges To The Constitutionality Of Icwa, Abi Fain, Mary Kathryn Nagle
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
No abstract provided.
Native Youth & Juvenile Injustice In South Dakota, Addie C. Rolnick
Native Youth & Juvenile Injustice In South Dakota, Addie C. Rolnick
Scholarly Works
In this essay, Professor Rolnick uses the three themes of racism, jurisdiction, and tribal sovereignty to provide a snapshot of the juvenile justice system in South Dakota as it impacts Native youth. First, she describes the tribal juvenile justice systems in the state. She argues tribal systems should rightfully play a central role handling Native youth offenders, but they are underfunded and may not therefore be sufficiently responsive to young offenders' needs. Second, she examines the impact of federal power over youth on reservations in South Dakota. Specifically, federal juvenile jurisdiction, as well as federal financial and administrative power, can …
Maxwell, Lewis V. Clarke, And The Trail Around Tribal Sovereign Immunity, Allison Hester
Maxwell, Lewis V. Clarke, And The Trail Around Tribal Sovereign Immunity, Allison Hester
University of Colorado Law Review
Tribal sovereign immunity is an important tool available to American Indian tribes as they have rebuilt, restructured, and rejuvenated their communities in the era of Self- Determination following centuries of colonialism, land grabs, and cultural genocide. Sovereign immunity protects tribes by establishing a barrier to both trampling of tribal sovereignty through non-tribal courts and costly adverse judgments. Recent precedent from the Ninth Circuit has weakened tribal sovereign immunity. Maxwell v. County of San Diego, pivoting from previous decisions, held that tribal employees can be sued individually for money damages for actions taken in the course and scope of their employmentas …
United States V. Washington, Kirsa Shelkey
United States V. Washington, Kirsa Shelkey
Public Land & Resources Law Review
Pacific Northwest Treaties, now known as the Stevens Treaties, were negotiated in the 1850’s between the U.S. and Indian tribes, including the Suquamish Indian Tribe, Jamestown S'Klallam, Lower Elwha Band of Klallams, Port Gamble Clallam, Nisqually Indian Tribe, Nooksack Tribe, Sauk-Suiattle Tribe, Skokomish Indian Tribe, Squaxin Island Tribe, Stillaguamish Tribe, Upper Skagit Tribe, Tulalip Tribes, Lummi Indian Nation, Quinault Indian Nation, Puyallup Tribe, Hoh Tribe, Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation, Quileute Indian Tribe, Makah Indian Tribe, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, and the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe (“Tribes”). The Stevens Treaties stated that “the right of taking fish, …
Plenary Power, Political Questions, And Sovereignty In Indian Affairs, Michalyn Steele
Plenary Power, Political Questions, And Sovereignty In Indian Affairs, Michalyn Steele
Faculty Scholarship
A generation of Indian law scholars has roundly, and rightly, criticized the Supreme Court’s invocation of the political question doctrine to deprive tribes of meaningful judicial review when Congress has acted to the detriment of tribes. Similarly, many Indian law scholars view the plenary power doctrine — that Congress has expansive, virtually unlimited authority to regulate tribes — as a tool that fosters and formalizes the legal oppression of Indian people by an unchecked Federal government. The way courts have applied these doctrines in tandem has frequently left tribes without meaningful judicial recourse against breaches of the federal trust responsibility …
Recentering Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction, Addie C. Rolnick
Recentering Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction, Addie C. Rolnick
Scholarly Works
The boundaries of modern tribal criminal jurisdiction are defined by a handful of clear rules—such as a limit on sentence length and a categorical prohibition against prosecuting most non-Indians—and many grey areas in which neither Congress nor the Supreme Court has specifically addressed a particular question. This Article discusses five of the grey areas: whether tribes retain concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute major crimes, whether tribes affected by Public Law 280 retain concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute a full range of crimes, whether tribes may prosecute Indians who are not citizens of any tribe, whether tribes may prosecute their own citizens for …
Analysis Of A Bias-Based Exception To The Doctrine Of Exhaustion In Wilson V. Bull, R. Mitchell Mcgrew
Analysis Of A Bias-Based Exception To The Doctrine Of Exhaustion In Wilson V. Bull, R. Mitchell Mcgrew
American Indian Law Review
No abstract provided.
It’S Rooted In The Land: How Managing Natural Resources Leads Native American Tribes To Sovereignty, Nicky Ouellet
It’S Rooted In The Land: How Managing Natural Resources Leads Native American Tribes To Sovereignty, Nicky Ouellet
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Tribal management of land and natural resources within the boundaries of Native American reservations is often superseded by state and federal policy. But control of land and resources is, ultimately, what makes a nation a nation. The three stories in this portfolio depict tribes establishing control of natural resources to various degrees of success. Chapter one is a narrative outlining the stories, my reportage and plans for publication. Chapter two: Members of the Northern Cheyenne seek to establish a medical marijuana program after the federal government relaxed enforcement of cannabis bans. Chapter three: An activist on the Fort Berthold reservation …
Tribal Strategies For Protecting And Preserving Groundwater, Stephen V. Quesenberry, Timothy C. Seward, Adam P. Bailey
Tribal Strategies For Protecting And Preserving Groundwater, Stephen V. Quesenberry, Timothy C. Seward, Adam P. Bailey
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Tribal Authority To Protect Water Resources And Reserved Rights Under Clean Water Act Section 401, Paula Goodman Maccabee
Tribal Authority To Protect Water Resources And Reserved Rights Under Clean Water Act Section 401, Paula Goodman Maccabee
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Law, Violence, And The Neurotic Structure Of American Indian Law, Sarah Krakoff
Law, Violence, And The Neurotic Structure Of American Indian Law, Sarah Krakoff
Publications
No abstract provided.
Misadventures In Indian Law: The Supreme Court's Patchak Decision, Anna O'Brien
Misadventures In Indian Law: The Supreme Court's Patchak Decision, Anna O'Brien
University of Colorado Law Review
"After today, any person may sue under the Administrative Procedure Act . .. to divest the Federal Government of title to and possession of land held in trust for Indian tribes . . . so long as the complaint does not assert a personal interest in the land.' - Justice Sotomayor, dissenting in Match-E-Be-Nash- She- Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. Patchak. Ever since European colonization of the Americas began in the fifteenth century, there has been friction between the new arrivals and the native inhabitants. The United States has dealt with its "Indian problem" through assimilation, reservations, and eventually, …
Comparative Institutional Competency And Sovereignty In Indian Affairs, Michalyn Steele
Comparative Institutional Competency And Sovereignty In Indian Affairs, Michalyn Steele
University of Colorado Law Review
While vigorous debate surrounds the proper scope and ambit of inherent tribal authority, there remains a critical antecedent question: whether Congress or the courts are ultimately best situated to define the contours of inherent tribal authority. In February 2013, Congress enacted controversial tribal jurisdiction provisions as part of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization recognizing and affirming inherent tribal authority to prosecute all persons, including non-Indian offenders, for crimes of domestic violence in Indian country. This assertion by Congress of its authority to set the bounds of tribal inherent authority-beyond where the United States Supreme Court has held tribal inherent …
Comparative Institutional Competency And Sovereignty In Indian Affairs, Michalyn Steele
Comparative Institutional Competency And Sovereignty In Indian Affairs, Michalyn Steele
Faculty Scholarship
While vigorous debate surrounds the proper scope and ambit of inherent tribal authority, there remains a critical antecedent question: whether Congress or the courts are ultimately best situated to define the contours of inherent tribal authority. In February 2013, Congress enacted controversial tribal jurisdiction provisions as part of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization recognizing and affirming inherent tribal authority to prosecute all persons, including non-Indian offenders, for crimes of domestic violence in Indian country. This assertion by Congress of its authority to set the bounds of tribal inherent authority -- beyond where the United States Supreme Court has held …
Elementary Unfairness: Federal Recidivism Statutes And The Gap In Indigent American Indian Defendants' Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel, Thais-Lyn Trayer
Elementary Unfairness: Federal Recidivism Statutes And The Gap In Indigent American Indian Defendants' Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel, Thais-Lyn Trayer
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Indian States Of America: Parallel Universes & Overlapping Sovereignty, Joseph William Singer
The Indian States Of America: Parallel Universes & Overlapping Sovereignty, Joseph William Singer
American Indian Law Review
No abstract provided.
State V. Jim: A New Era In Washington's Treatment Of The Tribes?, Matthew Deisen
State V. Jim: A New Era In Washington's Treatment Of The Tribes?, Matthew Deisen
American Indian Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Most Grievous Display Of Behavior: Self-Decimation In Indian Country, David E. Wilkins
A Most Grievous Display Of Behavior: Self-Decimation In Indian Country, David E. Wilkins
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
Vine Deloria, Jr., the greatest indigenous philosopher of his day, wrote Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto in 1969. It was a spirited polemic that both galvanized and inspired Native peoples at home and abroad. Simultaneously, the book's powerful and trenchant words sent shock waves through non-Indian society. Deloria articulated a resurgent indigenous-centered understanding of sovereignty that had largely been suppressed by federal policy and law for nearly a century. Why did he emphasize the word "sovereignty"? Because he knew that Native nations needed to employ such concepts since they were familiar to both federal and state …
Never Construed To Their Prejudice: In Honor Of David Getches, Richard B. Collins
Never Construed To Their Prejudice: In Honor Of David Getches, Richard B. Collins
Publications
This article reviews and analyzes the judicial canons of construction for Native American treaties and statutes. It discusses their theoretical justifications and practical applications. It concludes that the treaty canon has ready support in contract law and the law of treaty interpretation. Justification of the statutory canon is more challenging and could be strengthened by attention to the democratic deficit when Congress imposes laws on Indian country. Applications of the canons have mattered in disputes between Indian nations and private or state interests. They have made much less difference, and have suffered major failings, in disputes with the federal government. …
It Wasn't An Accident: The Tribal Sovereignty Immunity Story, William Wood
It Wasn't An Accident: The Tribal Sovereignty Immunity Story, William Wood
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Remarks Of David H. Getches: Federal Bar Association Indian Law Conference (April 7, 2011), David H. Getches
Remarks Of David H. Getches: Federal Bar Association Indian Law Conference (April 7, 2011), David H. Getches
University of Colorado Law Review
No abstract provided.
Never Construed To Their Prejudice: In Honor Of David Getches, Richard B. Collins
Never Construed To Their Prejudice: In Honor Of David Getches, Richard B. Collins
University of Colorado Law Review
This article reviews and analyzes the judicial canons of construction for Native American treaties and statutes. It discusses their theoretical justifications and practical applications. It concludes that the treaty canon has ready support in contract law and the law of treaty interpretation. Justification of the statutory canon is more challenging and could be strengthened by attention to the democratic deficit when Congress imposes laws on Indian country. Applications of the canons have mattered in disputes between Indian nations and private or state interests. They have made much less difference, and have suffered major failings, in disputes with the federal government. …
Interstate Water Compact Version 3.0: Missouri River Basin Compact Drafters Should Consider An Inter-Sovereign Approach To Accommodate Federal And Tribal Interests In Water Resources, Jeffrey T. Matson
Jeffrey T Matson
In the aftermath of the historic 2011 Missouri River flood, Missouri River Basin (MRB) state representatives and governors criticize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for operating the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System (System) in support of the multiple, often conflicting, purposes outlined in the Flood Control Act of 1944. These officials envision entering into an interstate compact to divest the Corps of some of its operational authority and to broaden their role in managing water resources. Similarly, MRB tribal leaders argue that the Corps fails to operate its System in a manner that respects the interrelated issues of …
The Use Of The Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act To Justify Disparate Treatment Of Alaska's Tribes, Natalie Landreth, Erin Dougherty
The Use Of The Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act To Justify Disparate Treatment Of Alaska's Tribes, Natalie Landreth, Erin Dougherty
American Indian Law Review
No abstract provided.
Regaining Control Over The Children: Reversing The Legacy Of Assimilative Policies In Education, Child Welfare, And Juvenile Justice That Targeted Native American Youth, Ryan Seelau
American Indian Law Review
No abstract provided.