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Jurisprudence And Recommendations For Tribal Court Authority Due To Imposition Of U.S. Limitations, Angelique Eaglewoman
Jurisprudence And Recommendations For Tribal Court Authority Due To Imposition Of U.S. Limitations, Angelique Eaglewoman
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
No abstract provided.
Envisioning Indigenous Community Courts To Realize Justice In Canada For First Nations, Angelique Eaglewoman
Envisioning Indigenous Community Courts To Realize Justice In Canada For First Nations, Angelique Eaglewoman
Faculty Scholarship
Through European colonization in North America, the time-honored rule of law, or good way of life, in Indigenous communities was displaced with external forums and processes, primarily from the British juridical traditions. In contemporary Canada, the use of external laws as a tool of colonization and the injustice experienced by Aboriginal peoples in Canadian courts has been the focus of media attention, policy papers, and legal reports for decades. The Canadian justice system is viewed by many as external and a means of subjugation for First Nation, Métis and Inuit peoples. As the Canadian government has attempted to come to …
Incorporation Without Assimilation: Legislating Tribal Civil Jurisdiction Over Non-Members, Alexander Tallchief Skibine
Incorporation Without Assimilation: Legislating Tribal Civil Jurisdiction Over Non-Members, Alexander Tallchief Skibine
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
For the last 40 years the Supreme Court has been engaged in a measured attack on the sovereignty of Indian tribes when it comes to tribal court jurisdiction over people who are not members of the tribe asserting that jurisdiction. The Congress has already enacted legislation partially restoring some tribal courts’ criminal jurisdiction over non-members. This Essay proposes to legislatively reconfirm the civil jurisdiction of tribal courts over such non-members. After examining the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence in this area and summarizing the Court’s main concerns with such tribal jurisdiction, this Essay explores various legislative options before settling on a preferred …
Big Horn County Electric Cooperative, Inc. V. Big Man, Brett Berntsen
Big Horn County Electric Cooperative, Inc. V. Big Man, Brett Berntsen
Public Land & Resources Law Review
The tribal exhaustion doctrine requires that parties first exhaust available tribal court remedies before challenging tribal jurisdiction in federal court. Exactly what constitutes an exhaustion of tribal court remedies, however, remains riddled with nuance. In Big Horn County Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Big Man, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana rejected a U.S. magistrate judge’s recommendation to remand a case to tribal court to further develop the factual record. Instead, the district court relied on federal circuit court precedent in holding that exhaustion had occurred when the tribal appellate court expressly ruled on the case’s jurisdiction …
Affirming A Pragmatic Development Of Tribal Jurisprudential Principles, Todd R. Matha
Affirming A Pragmatic Development Of Tribal Jurisprudential Principles, Todd R. Matha
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
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.
Predicate Offenses, Foreign Convictions, And Trusting Tribal Courts, Alexander S. Birkhold
Predicate Offenses, Foreign Convictions, And Trusting Tribal Courts, Alexander S. Birkhold
Michigan Law Review Online
Concerns about the reliability of criminal justice systems in foreign countries have resulted in uneven treatment of foreign convictions in U.S. courts. Federal courts, however, have historically accepted tribal court convictions as predicate offenses under recidivist statutes. But the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently rejected the uncounseled convictions obtained against Michael Bryant, Jr., a serial domestic abuser, in the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Court. The court dismissed a federal indictment that had been brought against Bryant under 18 U.S.C § 117, which makes it a felony to commit domestic violence against a spouse or partner in Indian country if the …
Can Tribal Courts Issue Domestic Relations Orders That Will Be Honored By Pension Plan Administrators Under Erisa?, Colin Osiecki
Can Tribal Courts Issue Domestic Relations Orders That Will Be Honored By Pension Plan Administrators Under Erisa?, Colin Osiecki
Northwestern University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Right To Counsel For Indians Accused Of Crime: A Tribal And Congressional Imperative, Barbara L. Creel
The Right To Counsel For Indians Accused Of Crime: A Tribal And Congressional Imperative, Barbara L. Creel
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
Native American Indians charged in tribal court criminal proceedings are not entitled to court appointed defense counsel. Under well-settled principles of tribal sovereignty, Indian tribes are not bound by Fifth Amendment due process guarantees or Sixth Amendment right to counsel. Instead, they are bound by the procedural protections established by Congress in the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968. Under the Indian Civil Rights Act (ICRA), Indian defendants have the right to counsel at their own expense. This Article excavates the historical background of the lack of counsel in the tribal court arena and exposes the myriad problems that it …
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 …
Off The Beaten Path? The Ninth Circuit's Approach To Tribal Courts' Civil Jurisdiction Over Nonmember Defendants, Jacob R. Masters
Off The Beaten Path? The Ninth Circuit's Approach To Tribal Courts' Civil Jurisdiction Over Nonmember Defendants, Jacob R. Masters
American Indian Law Review
No abstract provided.
Indian Courts And Fundamental Fairness: Indian Courts And The Future Revisited, Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Indian Courts And Fundamental Fairness: Indian Courts And The Future Revisited, Matthew L.M. Fletcher
University of Colorado Law Review
This article comes out of the University of Colorado Law Review's symposium issue honoring the late Dean David H. Getches. It begins with Dean Getches's framework for analyzing Indian courts. I revisit Indian Courts and the Future, the 1978 report drafted by Dean Getches, and the historic context of the report. I compare the 1978 findings to the current state of Indian courts in America. This article focuses on the reality that the ability of Indian courts to successfully guarantee fundamental fairness in the form of due process and equal protection of the law for individuals under tribal government authority …
Dakota Tribal Courts In Minnesota: Benchmarks Of Self-Determination, Sarah Deer, John E. Jacobson
Dakota Tribal Courts In Minnesota: Benchmarks Of Self-Determination, Sarah Deer, John E. Jacobson
Faculty Scholarship
Professor Frank Pommersheim has written that “[t]ribal courts are the front line institutions that most often confront issues of American Indian self-determination and sovereignty.”1 It is only fitting, then, that an issue devoted to the legal history and survival of Dakota people includes some information about the role Dakota tribal courts play in furthering the aims of self-determination. Of the over 565 federally recognized tribes in the United States, most operate some form of dispute resolution or judicial system—and all have distinct, unique histories and stories.2 Little has been written about the Dakota legal systems, and it is in the …
The Crazy Horse Malt Liquor Case: From Tradition To Modernity And Halfway Back ( Part Iii Of South Dakota Law Review Trilogy), Frank Pommersheim
The Crazy Horse Malt Liquor Case: From Tradition To Modernity And Halfway Back ( Part Iii Of South Dakota Law Review Trilogy), Frank Pommersheim
Frank Pommersheim
No abstract provided.
Steps To Alleviating Violence Against Women On Tribal Lands, Anjum Unwala
Steps To Alleviating Violence Against Women On Tribal Lands, Anjum Unwala
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Caveat
One in three Native American women has been raped or has experienced an attempted rape. Federal officials also failed to prosecute 75% of the alleged sex crimes against women and children living under tribal authority. The Senate bill to reauthorize the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) could provide appropriate recourse for Native American women who are victims of sexual assault. This bill (S. 1925), introduced in 2011, would grant tribal courts the ability to prosecute non-Indians who have sexually assaulted their Native American spouses and domestic partners. Congress has quickly reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act twice before. But …
Reliability, That Should Be The Question: The Constitutionality Of Using Uncounseled Tribal Court Convictions In Subsequent Federal Trials After Ant, Cavanaugh, And Shavanaux, Samuel D. Newton
American Indian Law Review
No abstract provided.
Amicus Briefs In Indian Law: The Case Of Plains Commerce Bank V. Long Family Land And Cattle Co., Inc., ( Part Ii Of South Dakota Law Review Trilogy), Frank Pommersheim
Amicus Briefs In Indian Law: The Case Of Plains Commerce Bank V. Long Family Land And Cattle Co., Inc., ( Part Ii Of South Dakota Law Review Trilogy), Frank Pommersheim
Frank Pommersheim
No abstract provided.
Creating Bright-Line Rules For Tribal Court Jurisdiction Over Non-Indians: The Case Of Trespass To Real Property, Grant Christensen
Creating Bright-Line Rules For Tribal Court Jurisdiction Over Non-Indians: The Case Of Trespass To Real Property, Grant Christensen
American Indian Law Review
The 2010 passage of the Tribal Law and Order Act will invest significantly more resources in tribal courts. As tribal courts expand, conflicts between sovereignties - tribal, state, and federal - are likely to occur with much greater frequency. Tribal court civil jurisdiction over non-Indians will be among the issues most frequently appealed to federal courts. I offer this piece to propose a new and novel solution - that tribal courts, through a piecemeal process, be extended absolute civil jurisdiction over non-Indians for those civil offenses over which tribes have the greatest interest. This article takes one of the most …
Crow Dog Vs. Spotted Tail: Case Closed, Timothy Connors, Vivek Sankaran
Crow Dog Vs. Spotted Tail: Case Closed, Timothy Connors, Vivek Sankaran
Articles
In 1868, Chief Spotted Tail signed a United States government treaty with an X. Spotted Tail was a member of the Brule Sioux Tribe, related by marriage to Crazy Horse. The government treaty recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux reservation. As such, exclusive use of the Black Hills by the Sioux people was guaranteed. Monroe, Michigan, native Gen. George Custer changed all that. In 1874, he led an expedition into that protected land, announced the discovery of gold, and the rush of prospectors followed. Within two years, Custer attacked at Little Big Horn and met his …
Tribal Civil Judicial Jurisdiction Over Nonmembers: A Practical Guide For Judges, Sarah Krakoff
Tribal Civil Judicial Jurisdiction Over Nonmembers: A Practical Guide For Judges, Sarah Krakoff
Publications
This Article provides a summary of the law of tribal civil jurisdiction over persons who are not members of the governing tribe ("nonmembers'), followed by an analysis of trends in the lower courts. It was written to respond to a consensus view at the University of Colorado Law Review Symposium: "The Next Great Generation of American Indian Law Judges," in January 2010, that a concise, practical, yet in-depth treatment of this subject would be useful to the judiciary as well as practitioners. The Article traces the development of the Supreme Court's common law of tribal civil judicial jurisdiction from 1959 …
Resisting Federal Courts On Tribal Jurisdiction, Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Resisting Federal Courts On Tribal Jurisdiction, Matthew L.M. Fletcher
University of Colorado Law Review
This Paper is part of a call for a paradigm-shifting reexamination by Indian tribes and Indian people about their place in the American constitutional structure. For tribal advocates to prevail in the federal judiciary, they must force federal judges to rethink everything they know about federal Indian law. There are at least two ways to do this. Tribal advocates and American Indian law scholars must first establish a baseline of knowledge and information about the realities of Indian country in the twenty-first century. This work is nascent and ongoing, if not burgeoning, but frankly is far from enough. A second …
Tribal Civil Judicial Jurisdiction Over Nonmembers: A Practical Guide For Judges, Sarah Krakoff
Tribal Civil Judicial Jurisdiction Over Nonmembers: A Practical Guide For Judges, Sarah Krakoff
University of Colorado Law Review
This Article provides a summary of the law of tribal civil jurisdiction over persons who are not members of the governing tribe ("nonmembers'), followed by an analysis of trends in the lower courts. It was written to respond to a consensus view at the University of Colorado Law Review Symposium: "The Next Great Generation of American Indian Law Judges," in January 2010, that a concise, practical, yet indepth treatment of this subject would be useful to the judiciary as well as practitioners. The Article traces the development of the Supreme Court's common law of tribal civil judicial jurisdiction from 1959 …
Sorting Out Civil Jurisdiction In Indian Country After Plains Commerce Bank: State Courts And The Judicial Sovereignty Of The Navajo Nation, Dale Beck Furnish
Sorting Out Civil Jurisdiction In Indian Country After Plains Commerce Bank: State Courts And The Judicial Sovereignty Of The Navajo Nation, Dale Beck Furnish
American Indian Law Review
No abstract provided.
Interpretive Sovereignty: A Research Agenda, Kristen A. Carpenter
Interpretive Sovereignty: A Research Agenda, Kristen A. Carpenter
Publications
In federal Indian law, the treaty operates as our foundational legal text. Reflecting centuries-old historical political arrangements between Indian nations and the United States, treaties remain vital legal instruments that decide dozens of legal cases each year. Yet, these treaties--originally drafted in English by the federal government, following negotiations with tribal representatives who usually spoke their own languages--present a number of ambiguities for contemporary courts. The dominant model of treaty interpretation is one in which judges interpret treaties in a manner they they believe to reflect Indians' understanding of treaty terms and, more generally, to promote the interests of Indian …
Slides: Tribal Perspectives On Natural Resource Policy, Donald Wharton
Slides: Tribal Perspectives On Natural Resource Policy, Donald Wharton
The Future of Natural Resources Law and Policy (Summer Conference, June 6-8)
Presenter: Donald Wharton, Native American Rights Fund
16 slides
Preserving The Seeds Of Gender Fluidity: Tribal Courts And The Berdache Tradition, Andrew Gilden
Preserving The Seeds Of Gender Fluidity: Tribal Courts And The Berdache Tradition, Andrew Gilden
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
This Article outlines the particular cultural characteristics giving rise to traditional berdachism, the means by which American policies fostered their decline, and the Navajo tribal courts' re-infusion of these characteristics into contemporary jurisprudence. By tracking the interplay between the traditional values of child autonomy, gender equality, and tribal collectivism, the rise, fall and potential reemergence of the berdache tradition can be analyzed as resulting from shifts in its determinative cultural elements.
Rethinking Customary Law In Tribal Court Jurisprudence, Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Rethinking Customary Law In Tribal Court Jurisprudence, Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
Customary law still appears in many of the decisions of American state and federal courts. Modern courts rely less on customary law, part and parcel of the English common law adopted and adapted by the Founders of the United States, with statutory and administrative law dominating the field. In contrast, the importance of customary law in American Indian tribal courts cannot be understated. Indian tribes now take every measure conceivable to preserve Indigenous cultures and restore lost cultural knowledge and practices. Tribal court litigation, especially litigation involving tribal members and issues arising out of tribal law, often turns on the …
Winner, Best Appellate Brief In The 2002 Native American Law Student Association Moot Court Competition, Michelle A. Carr, Cara Hair
Winner, Best Appellate Brief In The 2002 Native American Law Student Association Moot Court Competition, Michelle A. Carr, Cara Hair
American Indian Law Review
No abstract provided.
Trifederalism In The Aftermath Of Teague: The Interaction Of State And Tribal Courts In Wisconsin, Carol Tebben
Trifederalism In The Aftermath Of Teague: The Interaction Of State And Tribal Courts In Wisconsin, Carol Tebben
American Indian Law Review
No abstract provided.
Undoing Indian Law One Case At A Time: Judicial Minimalism And Tribal Sovereignty, Sarah Krakoff
Undoing Indian Law One Case At A Time: Judicial Minimalism And Tribal Sovereignty, Sarah Krakoff
Publications
No abstract provided.