| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| David Armstrong |
Estate Planning for American Indians: Aipra for the General Practitioner |
92 Denver University Law Review Online 33 (2015) |
Indian law is sometimes viewed as niche practice area limited to those who work directly with tribes or those who work on or near a reservation. Despite this perception the general practitioner regardless of where they work should have passing familiarity with laws which affect tribal members who often reside outside of reservations. Two primary... |
2015 |
| Anthony B. Ponikvar |
Ever-blurred Lines: Why Native Advertising Should Not Be Subject to Federal Regulation |
93 North Carolina Law Review 1187 (May, 2015) |
Upon logging onto Facebook every day, over 800 million users are inundated with posts by their friends and family on their Newsfeed. Users see a status update from their niece who just got a new car. They scroll to see that their co-worker likes the new comic book hero movie and that their old friend from high school posted pictures of her... |
2015 |
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Federal Indian Law--tribal Jurisdiction--fifth Circuit Disclaims Independent Obligation to Ensure That Tribal Courts Have Subject Matter Jurisdiction in Disputes Involving Nonmembers.--dolgencorp, Inc. V. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, 746 F.3d 167 |
128 Harvard Law Review 1035 (January, 2015) |
As domestic dependent nations, Indian tribes retain all inherent sovereign powers not withdrawn by treaty or [federal] statute, or by implication as a necessary result of their dependent status. In Montana v. United States, the Supreme Court articulated the general proposition that Indian tribes' exercise of civil regulatory authority over... |
2015 |
| Purba Mukerjee |
Fighting for Air in Indian Country: Clean Air Act Jurisdiction in Off-reservation Tribal Land |
45 Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis 10966 (October, 2015) |
Acting under its Clean Air Act (CAA) authority, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has attempted to regulate air quality on behalf of Native American tribes. However, the D.C. Circuit--in reviewing EPA's tribal CAA rules--significantly cut back on these efforts, resulting in state encroachment on the environmental authority... |
2015 |
| Mary Smith |
For Native American Attorneys, Nnaba Groundbreaking Study Reveals Devastating Lack of Inclusion in the Legal Profession at Large |
62-APR Federal Lawyer 72 (April, 2015) |
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Federal Bar Association's Indian Law Conference. The theme is 40 Years Strong: The Indian Self-Determination Era Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty. While tribal sovereignty has been strengthened over time, the status and inclusion of Native American attorneys remain challenging at best, particularly in the... |
2015 |
| Zachary R. Cormier |
Forcing Personal Injury Suits into the Regulation of Class Iii Gaming-- the Judicial Divide Regarding Waiver of Tribal Immunity and Jurisdiction for Personal Injury Suits under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act |
40 Oklahoma City University Law Review 329 (Fall 2015) |
There is a very important judicial divide forming in regard to Indian tribal sovereign immunity under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA). The crux of the debate is whether IGRA permits an Indian tribe and a state to negotiate a waiver of the tribe's sovereign immunity, allowing visitors of tribal gaming facilities to file personal injury suits... |
2015 |
| Heather Whitney-Williams, Hillary M. Hoffmann |
Fracking in Indian Country: the Federal Trust Relationship, Tribal Sovereignty, and the Beneficial Use of Produced Water |
32 Yale Journal on Regulation 451 (Summer 2015) |
Potentially toxic wastewater discharges from hydraulic fracturing--known as produced water--are not subject to RCRA's or the CWA's permitting requirements. This is because the EPA has categorized produced water as a special waste when put to beneficial uses in arid regions. Some chemical components in produced water, however, are patented... |
2015 |
| Michael D. McNally, Professor of Religion, Carleton College |
From Substantial Burden on Religion to Diminished Spiritual Fulfillment: the San Francisco Peaks Case and the Misunderstanding of Native American Religion |
30 Journal of Law and Religion 36 (February, 2015) |
In Navajo Nation v. U.S. Forest Service, 535 F.3d 1058 (9th Cir. 2008), cert. denied, 129 S. Ct. 2763 (2009), the Ninth Circuit seated en banc found that federal approval of a plan by a ski resort to make artificial snow with treated sewage effluent on Arizona's San Francisco Peaks, a mountain massif held sacred by the Navajo, Hopi, and four other... |
2015 |
| Lorelei Laird |
Fuss and Feathers |
101-JAN ABA Journal 17 (January, 2015) |
In many American Indian religions, the eagle is considered a link to the creator and the spirit world. Its feathers are an important part of rituals, facilitating spiritual or physical purification. But in the 21st century, acquiring eagle feathers is more a bureaucratic than a spiritual matter. Because the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act... |
2015 |
| Emily Snyder, Val Napoleon, John Borrows |
Gender and Violence: Drawing on Indigenous Legal Resources |
48 U.B.C. Law Review 593 (July, 2015) |
Custom misapplied bastardised murdered a frankenstein corpse conveniently recalled to intimidate women. In a recently published report by the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres, an action plan was proposed for addressing violence against Indigenous women. This report was a response to the high rates of sexual violence that Indigenous... |
2015 |
| A.J. Casale |
Going Native: the Rise of Online Native Advertising and a Recommended Regulatory Approach |
65 Catholic University Law Review 129 (Fall, 2015) |
15 Animal Vines That Perfectly Describe Your Mood Right Now--BuzzFeed 11 Dad Jokes We've All Heard Before--BuzzFeed Many people see listicle titles like these while browsing social media and click on them for entertainment. What they may not realize is that a large corporation, like Geico in these instances, paid an estimated $90,000 for each... |
2015 |
| Gina Cosentino |
Governing the Global Commons: How Unsr Anaya's Study on Extractive Industries Can Inform a New Global Human Rights Regulatory Regime for Transnational Conservation Ngos Operating on or near Indigenous Territories |
32 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law 209 (Symposium, 2015) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 209 II. Indigenous Peoples and the Development of a Global Voluntary-Compliance Human Rights Regime for Extractive Industries. 214 III. Emergent Frontiers in Governing the Global Indigenous Commons: The Need for a Global Regulatory Framework Clarifying the Human Rights Responsibilities of Conservation NGOs.... |
2015 |
| Diana Coronel David |
Green Energy in Indian Country as a Double-edged Sword for Native Americans: Drawing on the Inter-american and Colombian Legal Systems to Redefine the Right to Consultation |
38-SPG Environs Environmental Law and Policy Journal 223 (Spring, 2015) |
Introduction. 224 I. United States Department of the Interior's Failure to Consult the Quechan Tribe Prior to Approving the Ocotillo Wind Energy Project. 226 A. Background on the Quechan Tribe. 226 B. Project's Approval. 228 C. Complaint and Decision. 230 II. Existing Legal Framework Governing the Right to Consultation in the United States. 232 A.... |
2015 |
| Mary Smith |
Groundbreaking Survey: Native American Attorneys Not Fully Included in Legal Profession |
52-SEP Arizona Attorney 12 (September, 2015) |
In order to raise the visibility of Native American attorneys in the legal profession at large, to effectuate lasting reforms in the legal community, and to help build a better pipeline to law school, the National Native American Bar Association (NNABA) conducted the first-of-its-kind study of Native American attorneys, titled The Pursuit of... |
2015 |
| Leah Jurss |
Halting the "Slide down the Sovereignty Slope" : Creative Remedies for Tribes Extending Civil Infraction Systems over non-indians |
16 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 39 (2015) |
A slot machine player at the Four Winds Casino in Hartford, Michigan, took a payout ticket from another slot machine as he sat down to play. In situations like this, casino security and law enforcement take every opportunity to ensure the player returns the property to the rightful owner. As a last resort, after sitting before a judge and entering... |
2015 |
| Leah Jurss |
HALTING THE "SLIDE DOWN THE SOVEREIGNTY SLOPE" : CREATIVE REMEDIES FOR TRIBES EXTENDING CIVIL INFRACTION SYSTEMS OVER NON-INDIANS |
16 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 39 (2015) |
A slot machine player at the Four Winds Casino in Hartford, Michigan, took a payout ticket from another slot machine as he sat down to play. In situations like this, casino security and law enforcement take every opportunity to ensure the player returns the property to the rightful owner. As a last resort, after sitting before a judge and entering... |
2015 |
| Gregory S. Arnold |
Hon. William D. Johnson Chief Judge, Umatilla Tribal Court Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Pendleton, Oregon |
62-APR Federal Lawyer 12 (April, 2015) |
When Judge William D. Johnson took the bench at the Umatilla Tribal Court as an associate judge in 1980, there was no way for anyone to foresee that the recent law school graduate would still be on the bench 35 years later. He had the perfect background to be a judge in the Umatilla Tribal Court. He was an experienced tribal attorney and a citizen... |
2015 |
| Richard Duncan, Christiana Martenson |
I Can See Clearly Now: the Epa's Authority to Regulate Indian Country under the Clean Air Act |
41 William Mitchell Law Review 488 (2015) |
I. Introduction. 489 II. Indian Country and the United States' Trust Responsibility. 492 III. The Clean Air Act and the EPA's New Source Review Rule for Indian Country. 495 A. Involvement of Indian Tribes in Implementation of Clean Air Act Programs Prior to the Indian Country NSR Rule. 496 B. The EPA's Indian Country NSR Rule. 500 IV. The D.C.... |
2015 |
| Peter Capossela |
Impacts of the Army Corps of Engineers' Pick-sloan Program on the Indian Tribes of the Missouri River Basin |
30 Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation 143 (2015) |
Introduction. 144 I. Overview of the Missouri River Basin Pick-Sloan Program. 146 A. The Natural Missouri River and its Vast Watershed. 146 B. Enactment and Implementation of the 1944 Flood Control Act. 149 C. A River Transformed. 153 II Impacts of Dam Construction on the Indian Reservations Along the Missouri River. 155 A. Inundation of Land and... |
2015 |
| Peter Capossela |
IMPACTS OF THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS' PICK-SLOAN PROGRAM ON THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI RIVER BASIN |
30 Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation 143 (2015) |
Introduction. 144 I. Overview of the Missouri River Basin Pick-Sloan Program. 146 A. The Natural Missouri River and its Vast Watershed. 146 B. Enactment and Implementation of the 1944 Flood Control Act. 149 C. A River Transformed. 153 II Impacts of Dam Construction on the Indian Reservations Along the Missouri River. 155 A. Inundation of Land and... |
2015 |
| Prv Raghavan |
Indian Budget 2015 |
26 Journal of International Taxation 60 (October, 2015) |
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, on February 28, 2015, presented the Union Budget for 2015-2016, the second of the National Democratic Alliance government after the general elections in May 2014. The Bill was amended slightly by the Indian Parliamentand obtained the assent of the President on May 14, 2015, and became Finance Act, 2015, coming... |
2015 |
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Indian Country Permits Finalized for Five Source Categories |
25 No.4 Air Pollution Consultant 2.17 (2015) |
The Environmental Protection Agency on May 1, 2015 (80 FR 25068-25018), published a final rule that establishes options to simplify the Clean Air Act permitting process for certain smaller sources of air pollution commonly found in Indian country. Intended to ensure that air quality those areas is protected by facilitating the implementation of the... |
2015 |
| Nizhone Meza |
Indian Education: Maintaining Tribal Sovereignty Through Native American Culture and Language Preservation |
2015 Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal 353 (2015) |
The United States government has attempted to accommodate, assimilate, and terminate the Indian since declaring its Independence. Indian Education Policy was no different as it duplicated the general Federal Indian Policy making an indirect substantial impact on tribal sovereignty. This impact is felt today as traditional Native American languages... |
2015 |
| Troy A. Eid, Affie Ellis |
Indian Law and Order Commission Proposals Gain Ground |
62-JUN Federal Lawyer 17 (June, 2015) |
These are historic times for America's 567 federally recognized Indian tribes, thanks to the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 (TLOA) and the Violence Against Women Act Amendments of 2013 (VAWA Amendments). These landmark reforms make federal officials more accountable to Native American and Alaska Native communities, ease congressionally imposed... |
2015 |
| Paul Spruhan |
Indian Law on State Bar Exams in the Age of the Uniform Bar Examination |
62-MAR Federal Lawyer 14 (March, 2015) |
In 2002, with much fanfare, New Mexico became the first state to adopt Indian law as a testable subject for its state bar examination. Advocates for its adoption touted the need for practitioners throughout the state to have basic knowledge of the principles of Indian law to competently represent their clients, regardless of the type of law they... |
2015 |
| Javier Esparza |
Indian Patent Law: Working Within the Trips Agreement Flexibilities to Provide Pharmaceutical Patent Protection While Protecting Public Health |
24 Journal of Transnational Law & Policy 205 (2014-2015) |
I. Introduction: Patent Law and the Pharmaceutical Industry. 205 II. TRIPS and the Indian Patents Act, 1970. 207 A. Indian Patents Act, 1970. 207 B. TRIPS Agreement. 208 C. Doha Declaration. 210 D. Amendments to the Indian Patents Act, 1970. 210 III. India's Section 3(d). 212 IV. India's Granting of Compulsory Licenses. 216 V. Discussion. 220 VI.... |
2015 |
| Beth DiFelice |
Indian Treaties: a Bibliography |
107 Law Library Journal 241 (Spring, 2015) |
This bibliography describes sources for research into treaties between the U.S. government and Indian tribes, focusing on primary sources. The sources are preceded by an overview of the treaty process and the termination of the government's power to enter into treaties with Indian nations. Overview of the Indian Treaty Process. 243 Congressional... |
2015 |
| Ann Tweedy |
Indian Tribes and Gun Regulation: Should Tribes Exercise Their Sovereign Rights to Enact Gun Bans or Stand-your-ground Laws? |
78 Albany Law Review 885 (2014-2015) |
In light of the Second Amendment's inapplicability to Indian tribes, tribes appear to have the greatest freedom to experiment with gun laws of any sovereign in the United States. What have they done with that freedom and what sorts of regulations should they pursue? This article attempts to answer both questions. As to the first, as discussed in... |
2015 |
| Ann Tweedy |
INDIAN TRIBES AND GUN REGULATION: SHOULD TRIBES EXERCISE THEIR SOVEREIGN RIGHTS TO ENACT GUN BANS OR STAND-YOUR-GROUND LAWS? |
78 Albany Law Review 885 (2014-2015) |
In light of the Second Amendment's inapplicability to Indian tribes, tribes appear to have the greatest freedom to experiment with gun laws of any sovereign in the United States. What have they done with that freedom and what sorts of regulations should they pursue? This article attempts to answer both questions. As to the first, as discussed in... |
2015 |
| Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner |
Indigenous Adaptation in the Face of Climate Change |
21 Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law 129 (Fall, 2015) |
The impacts of climate change are now clear. Within the United States, localities and regions are increasingly considering adaptation strategies in the face of the negative impacts of climate change. Adaptation efforts are most critical at the local level. Because uncertainty remains as to how exactly climate change may impact a particular... |
2015 |
| Alexia Herwig |
Indigenous Interests and the Chapeau of Article Xx: Equality of What? |
108 AJIL Unbound 300 (March, 2014-July, 2015) |
My analysis focuses on a limited aspect of the Appellate Body's (AB) EC--Seal Products decision under the chapeau of Article XX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). It is revelatory for the kind of discrimination at issue under the chapeau in surprising ways. The general exceptions in Article XX serve to justify measures infringing... |
2015 |
| Rebecca Tsosie |
Indigenous Peoples and the Ethics of Remediation: Redressing the Legacy of Radioactive Contamination for Native Peoples and Native Lands |
13 Santa Clara Journal of International Law 203 (2015) |
Most readers probably paid little attention to the small entry in a local New Mexico newspaper on December 28, 2013: Uranium project on Navajo Nation gets green light. According to the article, Navajo lawmakers voted to grant a mining company permission to operate a demonstration uranium recovery project on lands within the Church Rock chapter... |
2015 |
| C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, Illinois College |
Jon Blackman, Oklahoma's Indian New Deal, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. Pp. 225. $24.95 Paper (Isbn 978-0806143514). Doi:10.1017/s0738248014000716 |
33 Law and History Review 255 (February, 2015) |
In Oklahoma's Indian New Deal, independent historian Jon Blackman argues that the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of 1936 (OIWA) provides an important and underinvestigated chapter in understanding Commissioner of Indian Affairs, John Collier's reform efforts and the broader Indian New Deal, as well as political and economic developments among Native... |
2015 |
| Rebecca Tsosie |
Just Governance or Just War?: Native Artists, Cultural Production, and the Challenge of "Super-diversity" |
6 Cybaris an Intellectual Property Law Review 56 (Summer, 2015) |
I. Introduction. 58 II. Colonialism, Cultural Imagery, and Native Peoples. 68 III. National Identity, Tribal Identity, and Identity Harm. 73 A. Stereotyping and Identity Harm. 75 B. Native American Mascots and Identity Harm. 80 IV. Cultural Production and the Rights of Native Artists. 85 A. The Historic Framing of Art as Cultural Production. 86 B.... |
2015 |
| Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner |
Justice Brandeis and Indian Country: Lessons from the Tribal Environmental Laboratory |
47 Arizona State Law Journal 857 (Fall 2015) |
Justice Brandeis first famously wrote of a system of federalism where states would serve as laboratories of regulatory experimentation, allowing other states and the federal government to benefit from successful regulatory experiments. Although likely beyond the contemplation of Brandeis, tribes, as separate sovereigns existing within the United... |
2015 |
| Jazmin Chavez, staff writer |
Land Rights: Preserving Brazilian Indians' Traditional Ways of Life |
22 No.2 Human Rights Brief 11 (Fall, 2015) |
It is common knowledge that Brazil is the largest, most populated country in Latin America. It is less common knowledge, however, that Brazil's indigenous population is currently facing a number of critical issues that threaten the future of its people. Even during the first-ever World Indigenous Games--which was recently held in October 2015 to... |
2015 |
| Breann Nu'uhiwa |
Language Is Never about Language: Eliminating Language Bias in Federal Education Law to Further Indigenous Rights |
37 University of Hawaii Law Review 381 (Spring, 2015) |
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. -Angela Carter Before infants utter their first words or learn to assign meaning to speech, they develop preferences for those who speak their native languages in native accents. As children move into the preschool environment, language differences... |
2015 |
| Samantha K. Nikic |
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité?: the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Fails to Protect Hopi Katsinam from the Auction Block in France |
41 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 407 (2015) |
The shouts of a woman protesting over a room of applause for the $210,000 USD sale of a Native American headdress at French auction house Néret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou in April 2013 have gone unnoticed. Unlike the underwhelming concern of auction houses and courts in France that have allowed the sales of Native American sacred property,... |
2015 |
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Lost and Never Found: the Plight of Canada's Indigenous Women |
22 No.1 Human Rights Brief Brief 9 (Spring, 2015) |
On December 21, 2014, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) released a report concerning the plight of indigenous women in Canada, whom it claims face violence at a rate four times greater than nonindigenous women. The report elaborates on what the IACHR calls a pattern of violence and discrimination against indigenous women in the... |
2015 |
| Nicholas Dorf |
Making an Offer They Can't Refuse: Corporate Investment in Africa and the Divestment of Indigenous Land Rights |
38 Boston College International and Comparative Law Review 65 (Winter, 2015) |
International investment in African land is booming. In many circumstances, investors target land occupied by indigenous populations without official title. National laws providing protection for the land rights of these indigenous populations have proved rare and ineffective due to the driving need for investment and the perceived... |
2015 |
| Laura M. Seelau , Ryan Seelau |
Making Indigenous Self-determination Work: What the Nation Building Principles and Three Case Studies from Chile Teach Us about Implementing Indigenous Human Rights |
39 American Indian Law Review 137 (2014-2015) |
Self-determination is the only policy proven to benefit both Indigenous peoples and the nation-states in which they live. The right of self-determination is valuable for Indigenous peoples because it allows them to envision their own futures, set their own goals, and make decisions necessary to transform those visions and goals into realities. In... |
2015 |
| Troy A. Eid |
Making Native America Safer and More Just for All Americans |
40-MAY Human Rights Rts. 7 (May, 2015) |
These are momentous times for America's 567 federally recognized Indian tribes thanks to two recently enacted criminal justice reforms, the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 (TLOA) and the Violence Against Women Act Amendments of 2013 (VAWA Amendments). The effect of these two statutes is to make federal officials more accountable to Native American... |
2015 |
| Sandeep Gopalan , Akshaya Kamalnath |
Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility as a Vehicle for Reducing Inequality: an Indian Solution for Piketty and the Millennials |
10 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 34 (Spring, 2015) |
Introduction. 36 I. The Judicial Transition: from Shareholder Centricity to Stakeholder Consideration. 46 A. The Early Years. 46 B. The Satyam Scam. 51 C. Recent Judicial Recognition of Corporate Social Responsibility. 53 II. The Legislative and Executive History: Movement Towards Corporate Social Responsibility. 56 A. First Steps Towards Social... |
2015 |
| William Boulware, Chicago-Kent College of Law |
MARK EDWIN MILLER, CLAIMING TRIBAL IDENTITY: THE FIVE TRIBES AND THE POLITICS OF FEDERAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT, OKLAHOMA: UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS, 2013. PP. 490. $29.95 PAPER (ISBN-10: 0806143789) DOI: 10.1017/S0738248015000371 |
33 Law and History Review 761 (August, 2015) |
Who is an Indian? and What is a Tribe? are questions that the United States government has treated as problematic. These two questions have had a profound effect on people and communities having and claiming Indian ancestry. The resolution that the federal government pursued to accommodate colonial settlers, redress politicians, and appease... |
2015 |
| by Barbara L. Jones, Minnesota Lawyer, Minneapolis, MN |
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin |
43 No.3 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 111 (11/30/2015) |
The petitioner is the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, a federally recognized Indian tribe. It claims that the federal government has breached its obligations under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, 25 U.S.C. § 450 et seq., (ISDA), by not fully funding tribal support costs under the ISDA. The liability of the federal... |
2015 |
| Peter Erlinder |
Minnesota V. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa: 19 Century U.s. Treaty-guaranteed Usufructuary Property Rights, the Foundation for 21 Century Indigenous Sovereignty |
33 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 143 (Winter, 2015) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 145 I. Background to the Restoration of Chippewa Treaty-Guaranteed Usufructuary Property Rights in Northern Minnesota. 151 A. The Late 20 Century Grassroots Activism: The Rule of Law Returns After 160 Years of Systemic Usufructuary Property Theft. 153 B. Usufructuary Property in Sovereign Objibwe Territory: The... |
2015 |
| Mary Smith |
Native American Attorneys Systematically Excluded in the Legal Profession |
40-MAY Human Rights 14 (May, 2015) |
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975, which allowed tribes more control over administering federal programs. Enacted in a new era of self-determination for Indian tribes, the Act signaled new promise and hope for Native Americans in the United States. With more opportunities for... |
2015 |
| Celeste Wilson |
Native Americans and Free Exercise Claims: a Pattern of Inconsistent Application of First Amendment Rights and Insufficient Legislation for Natives Seeking Freedom in Religious Practice |
2015 the crit: a Critical Studies Journal J. 1 (2015) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . R32. I. Dominant, Majoritarian Religions and Native American Religions: A Brief History of the Religious Differences between early Christianized Americans and Natives. 4 II. Legal Precedent: Constitutional and Statutory Laws Addressing Native American Free Exercise. 6 A. The First Amendment to the United... |
2015 |
| Melinda Smith |
Native Americans and the Legalization of Marijuana: Can the Tribes Turn Another Addiction into Affluence? |
39 American Indian Law Review 507 (2014-2015) |
For decades, Congress has enacted legislation without a fleeting thought of the impact it will have on Native Americans. Today is no different. Federal decriminalization of marijuana, with the apparent end-goal of federal taxation of marijuana, is on the horizon. The multi-billion dollar industry is not only home to large corporate interests, it... |
2015 |
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Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation |
19-JAN Hawaii Bar Journal 24 (January, 2015) |
HBJ: What is your educational background and how did you come to be here at the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation? Moses Haia: I received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in 1989 and a law degree from the William S. Richardson School of Law in 1994. I joined the Native Hawaiian Legal... |
2015 |