American Indian Law
Topics include federal/tribal relations, state/tribal relations, tribal jurisdiction and authority, and business law.
Bethany Berger | October 27, 2020 | American Indian Law
Bethany Berger of University of the University of Connecticut School of Law has posted “McGirt v. Oklahoma and the Past, Present, and Future of Reservation Boundaries” (University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: “Unlawful...
Lauren Klosinski | October 1, 2020 | American Indian Law
On September 30, 2020 The DOJ announced it had awarded more than $295.8 million in grants to serve Native communities. The following in a excerpt from the press release. The Department of Justice today announced it has awarded more than $295.8 million to improve...
Lauren Klosinski | September 23, 2020 | American Indian Law
On Sept. 21, 2020, a bipartisan bill aimed at addressing the issue of missing and murdered Native Americans passed the U.S. House. The following is an excerpt from a press release from The United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Senator John Hoeven, chairman...
Elizabeth A. Reese | September 15, 2020 | American Indian Law
ABSTRACTAmerican legal scholarship focuses almost exclusively on federal, state, and local law. However, there are 574 federally recognized tribal governments within the United States whose laws are largely ignored. This Article brings to the fore the exclusion of...
Calah Schlabach, José-Ignacio Castañeda Perez, Matthew Hendley and Layne Dowdall | September 10, 2020 | American Indian Law, Children and the Law
This article was originally published by “Kids Imprisoned,” a project of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program, on Aug. 21, 2020. View the original post here. On a morning he should have been in middle school, 12-year-old Isaac Durham collapsed on the sidewalk after...
Troy A. Eid | August 25, 2020 | American Indian Law
Media Coverage of McGirt: ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’Confusion permeates the public arena as to what the U.S. Supreme Court recently did – and didn’t do – by ruling in favor of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, a federally recognized Native American tribe, and against the state...
