American Indian Law
Topics include federal/tribal relations, state/tribal relations, tribal jurisdiction and authority, and business law.
Lauren Klosinski | September 25, 2018 | American Indian Law
In a recent study on Native American youth involvement injJustice systems completed by the U.S. Government Accountability office, the analysis of available data found that: “the number of American Indian and Alaska Native (Native American) youth in federal and state...
Lauren Klosinski | September 14, 2018 | American Indian Law
On September 4, the Arizona Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Hopi Tribe v. Arizona Snowbowl Resort, et al., the Hopi Tribe’s public nuisance claim against Arizona Snowbowl’s snow making practices. The Arizona Court of Appeals found that Snowbowl’s...
Suzan Shown Harjo | August 1, 2018 | American Indian Law
Haudenosaunee Tadadaho (head chief) of all the Six Nations, Sid Hill, and Faithkeeper Oren Lyons, examine the encased Treaty of Canandaigua on the day it was installed in the Nation to Nation exhibition, September 2014. Their ancestors witnessed and signed the Treaty,...
Forrest Tahdooahnippah | July 26, 2018 | American Indian Law
Last Friday, in an anticipated decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided a controversial case regarding the St. Regis Mohawk’s ability assert sovereign immunity in inter partes review proceedings. The Federal Circuit held that tribal...
Donald R. Pongrace, Allison C. Binney and Michael G. Rossetti | July 24, 2018 | American Indian Law
All three branches of the federal government had a busy spring. The U.S. Supreme Court just completed its 2017 term in June with a full-strength bench after spending much of the previous term with only eight justices after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in...
Lauren Klosinski | July 11, 2018 | American Indian Law
From Tribelive.com A modest courthouse and a fledgling police force, a housing development for American Indian families and a school where students are taught exclusively in the tribe’s ancestral language. These are the visible signs of an independent tribal...
