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Failed Protectors: The Indian Trust And Killers Of The Flower Moon, Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Failed Protectors: The Indian Trust And Killers Of The Flower Moon, Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Michigan Law Review
Review of David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Uncounseled Tribal Court Guilty Pleas In State And Federal Courts: Individual Rights Versus Tribal Self-Governance, Christiana M. Martenson
Uncounseled Tribal Court Guilty Pleas In State And Federal Courts: Individual Rights Versus Tribal Self-Governance, Christiana M. Martenson
Michigan Law Review
Indian tribes in the United States are separate sovereigns with inherent self-governing authority. As a result, the Bill of Rights does not directly bind the tribes, and criminal defendants in tribal courts do not enjoy the protection of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel. In United States v. Ant, a defendant - without the legal assistance that a state or federal court would have provided - pled guilty to criminal charges in tribal court. Subsequently, the defendant faced federal charges arising out of the same events that led to the tribal prosecution. The Ninth Circuit in Ant barred the federal …
Williams V. Lee And The Debate Over Indian Equality, Bethany R. Berger
Williams V. Lee And The Debate Over Indian Equality, Bethany R. Berger
Michigan Law Review
Williams v. Lee (1959) created a bridge between century-old affirmations of the immunity of Indian territories from state jurisdiction and the tribal self-determination policy of the twentieth century. It has been called the first case in the modern era of federal Indian law. Although no one has written a history of the case, it is generally assumed to be the product of a timeless and unquestioning struggle of Indian peoples for sovereignty. This Article, based on interviews with the still-living participants in the case and on examination of the congressional records, Navajo council minutes, and Supreme Court transcripts, records, and …
Context And Legitimacy In Federal Indian Law, Philip P. Frickey
Context And Legitimacy In Federal Indian Law, Philip P. Frickey
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Frank Pommersheim, Braid of Feathers: American Indian Law and Contemporary Tribal Life
Black Hills/White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus The United States, Martin J. Lalonde
Black Hills/White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus The United States, Martin J. Lalonde
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Black Hills/White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus the United States by Edward Lazarus
The Hermeneutics Of Indian Law, Robert A. Williams Jr.
The Hermeneutics Of Indian Law, Robert A. Williams Jr.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of American Indians, Time, and the Law: Native Societies in a Modern Constitutional Democracy by Charles F. Wilkinson
American Indian Sacred Religious Sites And Government Development: A Conventional Analysis In An Unconventional Setting, Mark S. Cohen
American Indian Sacred Religious Sites And Government Development: A Conventional Analysis In An Unconventional Setting, Mark S. Cohen
Michigan Law Review
For centuries, American Indians have regarded specific lands as essential to their livelihood, government, culture, and religion. Congress and the courts have at times recognized the important relationship between tribes and their lands. Recognition has not always coincided with protection; during the nineteenth century and part of the twentieth century a series of governmental actions resulted in the tribes surrendering title and possession to many of their ancestral lands. Recently, however, American Indians have become increasingly active litigants in a variety of contexts. In one set of cases, Indians challenged government development projects on public lands, contending that because the …
Implication Of Civil Remedies Under The Indian Civil Rights Act, Michigan Law Review
Implication Of Civil Remedies Under The Indian Civil Rights Act, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This Note will discuss neither -the wisdom of the express provisions of ICRA nor the desirability of express creation by Congress of a federal civil remedy. The purpose of this Note is, instead, to analyze the bases upon which remedies have been implied by federal courts and to question whether implication is consistent with standards of statutory interpretation appropriate for Indian law. It is contended that the implication of federal civil remedies against Indian governments is improper and that if such remedies are to be created, precedent and policy mandate that they be the product of Congress. The Note will …
Tribal Self-Government And The Indian Reorganization Act Of 1934, Michigan Law Review
Tribal Self-Government And The Indian Reorganization Act Of 1934, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
The Indian Reorganization (Wheeler-Howard) Act of 1934 (IRA) was, by all accounts, one of the most significant single pieces of legislation directly affecting Indians ever enacted by the Congress of the United States. It has been "equalled in scope and significance only by the legislation of June 30, 1834, and the General Allotment Act of February 8, 1887." A major reversal of governmental policy and approach toward Indian affairs was effectuated by the IRA. This Comment will be concerned with the IRA as it affected the concept of tribal self-government, and primarily with those sections providing for adoption of tribal …