Jordan Gross | May 25, 2022 | American Indian Law
Below is the abstract for “Taking Stock: Open Questions and Unfinished Business Under VAWA Amendments to the Indian Civil Rights Act,” available for download on SSRN. The primary statutory tool for federal regulation of Tribal court criminal procedure is the Indian...
Deanna Tamborelli | February 10, 2021 | American Indian Law
Deanna Tamborelli of Boston University School of Law has published “Beyond VAWA: Localism as an Argument for Full Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction” (Boston University Law Review). The following is the abstract. American Indian and Alaskan Native (“AI/AN” or...
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...
Vincent Schilling | March 16, 2020 | American Indian Law
Legislation addressing the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous women gets unanimous approval.U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Tom Udall, D-New Mexico, and Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, applauded the unanimous passage of two bills — directed to...
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...
