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...
Matthew L.M. Fletcher | June 29, 2020 | American Indian Law
This essay was originally published on June 25, 2020 in Volume 73 of the Stanford Law Review. The following is the introduction. Footnotes have been removed.American Indian people know all too well the impact of pandemics on human populations, having barely survived...
Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Kaighn Smith, Jr., Wenona T. Singel and Jennifer Morinigo | May 19, 2020 | American Indian Law
The following text is excerpted from Restatement of the Law, The Law of American Indians, Tentative Draft No. 4, Chapter. 4. Tribal Economic Development Included below is the Introductory Note of Subchapter 3 – Indian Gaming. This text has not been considered by the...
Ronald J. Mann | May 14, 2020 | American Indian Law
This article was originally published on SCOTUSblog.com on May 12, 2020. McGirt v. Oklahoma asks whether the eastern half of Oklahoma is an Indian reservation, exempt in important ways from the control of state and local authorities. It would be the most populous...
Ronald J. Mann | May 8, 2020 | American Indian Law
This article was originally published on SCOTUSblog.com on April 30, 2020. McGirt v. Oklahoma will bring the justices a pronounced sense of déjà vu, as they hear argument for the second time in two years about whether the eastern half of Oklahoma is an Indian...