Ronald J. Mann | July 10, 2020 | American Indian Law
This article was originally posted on SCOTUSblog.com on July 9, 2020. The first thing we learned this morning with the announcement of the decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma was that Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t manage to be in the majority in every single 5-4...
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 Lauren Klosinski | March 6, 2020 | American Indian Law
Restatement of the Law, The Law of American Indians Reporter Matthew L.M. Fletcher and Associate Reporters Wenona T. Singel and Kaighn Smith Jr. recently teamed up with ALI CLE to offer two courses on the Law of American Indians.Economic Development in Indian Country:...
Richard Monette | March 2, 2020 | American Indian Law
ABSTRACTFrank Pommersheim’s Braid of Feathers: American Indian Law and Contemporary Indian Life offers a thoughtful invitation and a skillful guide into the largely uncharted terrain where federal Indian law meets tribal Indian law. Although of broad scope, including...
Neoshia R. Roemer | November 26, 2019 | American Indian Law
This post was originally published on Turtle Talk on Nov. 22. On Wednesday, Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) introduced a version of the Violence against Women Act bill that she sponsored. The new VAWA bill attempts to significantly erode tribal sovereignty in the name of...