Kaighn Smith, Jr. | October 19, 2017 | American Indian Law
It’s highly appropriate for The American Law Institute to take on federal Indian law; it is fundamental to who we are as a nation. The history of federal Indian law reflects the country coming to grips with its colonization of indigenous peoples. The process has...
Kaighn Smith, Jr., Matthew L.M. Fletcher and Wenona T. Singel | December 22, 2016 | American Indian Law
Many people are not aware that federal constitutional constraints on governmental action set forth in the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment do not apply to, or constrain, tribal government.1 The primary source for individual rights to constrain tribal...
