| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Kirke Kickingbird |
THE JURISDICTIONAL LANDSCAPE OF INDIAN COUNTRY AFTER THE MCGIRT AND CASTRO-HUERTA DECISIONS |
48 Human Rights 10 (2023) |
On July 9, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U.S. _, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), a case involving state jurisdiction in Indian Country. Petitioner McGirt, an Indian, contended the sexual offenses that were the subject of his state conviction occurred in Indian Country--the reservation of the Muscogee (Creek)... |
2023 |
| Rosa Celorio |
THE KALEIDOSCOPE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE PROMISE OF INTERNATIONAL LITIGATION FOR WOMEN, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, AND CHILDREN |
13 Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 155 (Spring, 2023) |
Climate change has been identified as a global emergency, a major international development issue, and a priority concern by many international and national entities. Women, Indigenous peoples, and children are some of the individuals and groups most affected by the adverse impacts of climate change. The author contends in this article that... |
2023 |
| Hailey Trawick |
THE LEGACY OF TRUST PROMISES: NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE |
25 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 301 (2023) |
Introduction. 302 I. The Evolution of the Trust Doctrine. 306 A. Treaties. 307 B. Case Law. 308 C. The Snyder Act. 310 D. The Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA). 312 II. The Legal and Interpretive Follies Behind the Circuits Looking Beyond Statutory Trust Duties. 313 A. The Circuit Holdings. 314 1. The Ninth Circuit: Quechan Tribe of the... |
2023 |
| Alexander M. Roider |
THE PROMISE AT THE END OF THE TRAIL: USING MCGIRT TO CLOSE THE TRIBAL ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE GAP |
52 Public Contract Law Journal 323 (Winter, 2023) |
Despite being introduced in identical ways, tribal enterprises and Alaska Native Corporations have achieved vastly different outcomes in their government contracting operations. However, the Supreme Court's recent decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma may change this, handing down a potential beacon of hope to the underperforming tribal enterprises. This... |
2023 |
| Michael D. McNally |
THE SACRED AND THE PROFANED: PROTECTION OF NATIVE AMERICAN SACRED PLACES THAT HAVE BEEN DESECRATED |
111 California Law Review 395 (April, 2023) |
From Standing Rock to San Francisco Peaks, Native American efforts to protect threatened sacred places in court have been troubled by what this Article identifies as the profanation principle: a presumption that places already profaned or degraded by development or pollution can no longer be sufficiently sacred to Native peoples to merit... |
2023 |
| W. Tanner Allread |
THE SPECTER OF INDIAN REMOVAL: THE PERSISTENCE OF STATE SUPREMACY ARGUMENTS IN FEDERAL INDIAN LAW |
123 Columbia Law Review 1533 (October, 2023) |
In the 2022 case of Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, the Supreme Court departed from one of the foundational cases in federal Indian law, Worcester v. Georgia. Chief Justice John Marshall's 1832 opinion had dismissed state power over Indian Country. But in Castro-Huerta, the Court took precisely the kind of arguments about state power that Chief Justice... |
2023 |
| Christina Rinnert |
THE TROUBLE WITH THE TRIBAL LAW AND ORDER ACT |
59-AUG Arizona Attorney 36 (July/August, 2023) |
The application of the Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA) creates multiple issues for tribes: a lack of funding for appointing attorneys, concerns about congressionally dictated incarceration limitations' effects on tribal sovereignty, and negative effects on tribal justice customs and traditions. Many of us have heard the Miranda rights recited so... |
2023 |
| Hannah Friedle |
TREATIES AS A TOOL FOR NATIVE AMERICAN LAND REPARATIONS |
21 Northwestern Journal of Human Rights 239 (Summer, 2023) |
Hundreds of treaties signed. Hundreds of treaties broken. The juvenile United States grew in size as independent Native nations ceded their territory through treaties. Thirsting for more land, the United States broke its promises and continued its manifest destiny westward. And what of tribes' treaty rights to land? Some Native nations received... |
2023 |
| Ryan B. Stoa |
TRIBAL CANNABIS AGRICULTURE LAW |
2023 Utah Law Review 1075 (2023) |
Indian tribes have some freedom to develop their own approach to cannabis agriculture, but what is the nature of that freedom, and how have tribes acted upon it? This Article investigates the current legal framework surrounding tribal cannabis agriculture and tribal participation in legal cannabis markets. It is generally believed that tribes have... |
2023 |
| Lauren van Schilfgaarde, Aila Hoss, Ann E. Tweedy, Sarah Deer, Stacy Leeds |
TRIBAL NATIONS AND ABORTION ACCESS: A PATH FORWARD |
46 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 1 (Winter, 2023) |
I. Introduction. 2 II. Historical Backdrop for Reproductive Autonomy. 8 III. Abortion Care in Indian Country Today. 17 A. Federal Indian Health System. 19 B. Facility Abortion Policies. 22 C. Indigenous Access to Abortion Care. 26 D. Views of Abortion Across Indian Country. 29 IV. Navigating Jurisdiction in Indian Country. 31 A. Criminal... |
2023 |
| Michael Doran |
TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY PREEMPTED |
89 Brooklyn Law Review 53 (Fall, 2023) |
In 1832, the US Supreme Court held in Worcester v. Georgia that the State of Georgia had no authority to exercise criminal jurisdiction over a non-Indian for conduct within the lands of the Cherokee Nation. In passages repeated many times since, the Court said that the several Indian nations [are] distinct political communities, having territorial... |
2023 |
| Christopher R. Green |
TRIBES, NATIONS, STATES: OUR THREE COMMERCE POWERS |
127 Penn State Law Review 643 (Summer, 2023) |
The scope of federal power is sometimes seen as a long-running battle between two stories. Story One sees the commerce power as initially broad, mistakenly contracted in the late nineteenth century, then properly restored in 1937 as the national power to deal with national problems. Story Two sees 1937 as the mistake, and the commerce power as... |
2023 |
| Justin E. Brooks |
TWO COUNTRIES IN CRISIS: MAN CAMPS AND THE NIGHTMARE OF NON-INDIGENOUS CRIMINAL JURISDICTION IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA |
56 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 533 (March, 2023) |
Thousands of Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or have been found murdered across the United States and Canada; these disappearances and killings are so frequent and widespread that they have become known as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis (MMIW Crisis). Indigenous communities in both countries often lack the... |
2023 |
| Neoshia R. Roemer |
UN-ERASING AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT FROM FAMILY LAW |
56 Family Law Quarterly 31 (2022-2023) |
In 1978, Congress enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) as a remedial measure to correct centuries-old policies that removed Indian children from their families and tribal communities at alarming rates. Since 1978, courts presiding over child custody matters around the country have applied ICWA. Over the last few decades, state legislatures,... |
2023 |
| Lucas Szulczynski |
UNITED STATES v. COOLEY: A STEP TOWARDS TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY |
56 UIC Law Review 697 (Winter 2023) |
I. Introduction. 697 II. Background. 699 A. Inherent Sovereignty and the Treaty Period. 699 B. Allotment and Territorial Erosion. 702 C. Repudiation, Termination, and Modern Policy. 706 D. Implicit Divestiture Doctrine. 708 III. Analysis: United States v. Cooley. 711 A. United States v. Cooley Background. 711 B. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. 714... |
2023 |
| Christine Annerfalk , Kevin Bales |
VARIATIONS IN VALOR? AMERICAN CONFLICT, THE "INDIAN WARS," AND THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR |
18 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 175 (2023) |
The Medal of Honor is the highest award given to United States soldiers. It assumes extreme risk and sacrifice in action against an enemy. It is often awarded posthumously. This paper will examine two themes: first, a significant variation in the award of the Medal across conflicts. Further, this paper will discuss the awarding patterns of the... |
2023 |
| Heather Tanana |
VOICES OF THE RIVER: THE RISE OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN LEADERS IN THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN |
34 Colorado Environmental Law Journal 265 (Spring, 2023) |
Climate change is one of the leading challenges facing tribes today. Traditionally, Indigenous women played significant roles in tribal decisionmaking and governance. However, European contact and colonization shifted gender dynamics, imposing male-dominated leadership. Recently, Native American women are reclaiming leadership positions--formally... |
2023 |
| Gregory Ablavsky , W. Tanner Allread |
WE THE (NATIVE) PEOPLE?: HOW INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DEBATED THE U.S. CONSTITUTION |
123 Columbia Law Review 243 (March, 2023) |
The Constitution was written in the name of the People of the United States. And yet, many of the nation's actual people were excluded from the document's drafting and ratification based on race, gender, and class. But these groups were far from silent. A more inclusive constitutional history might capture marginalized communities' roles as... |
2023 |
| Noah Goldenberg , Clayton Kinsey |
WINNER, BEST APPELLATE BRIEF IN THE 2023 NATIVE AMERICAN LAW STUDENT ASSOCIATION MOOT COURT COMPETITION |
47 American Indian Law Review 343 (2022-2023) |
1. Does the Minneshonka Nation retain a power of eminent domain expansive enough to apply to non-enrolled descendants, if retaining the power at all? 2. Does the Minneshonka Nation retain inherent authority to seize non-Indian fee land within the reservation based on the presence of Minneshonka Cane? On August 20, 2020, the Minneshonka Nation's... |
2023 |
| Connor D. Hicks |
WITHOUT RESERVATION: ENSURING UNIFORM TREATMENT IN BANKRUPTCY WHILE KEEPING IN MIND THE INTERESTS OF NATIVE AMERICAN INDIVIDUALS AND TRIBES |
28 Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law 341 (2023) |
The Bankruptcy Code (Code) exists as a mechanism for good faith debtors to discharge debts and seek a fresh start in life and finance. 11 U.S.C. § 106(a) ensures that not only are all debtors treated uniformly, but that all creditors, including governmental creditors which may otherwise enjoy immunity from suit, are equally subject to the... |
2023 |
| Mary Christina Wood |
"ON THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION": COURTS CONFRONTING THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY |
97 Indiana Law Journal 239 (Winter, 2022) |
In the dim and smokey twilight, with only bare necessities in tow, a family rushes to escape the wildfire racing toward them. Elsewhere, a household evacuates just ahead of a category five hurricane, perhaps not for the first time. Along the coastlines, countless others are resigned to looking on as their homesites erode into the inexorably rising... |
2022 |
| Ashley Murphy |
A CASE FOR DEFERENCE IN AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH LAW |
46 American Indian Law Review 179 (2022) |
Landing on the sandy shores of Tabasco, Hernan Cortez embarked on his mission. As a Spanish conquistador, he was to explore and conquer the newly discovered Mexico and convert its indigenous inhabitants to Christianity. After a brief stint in the Yucatan Peninsula, Cortez's party began to push west, eventually arriving in Tenochtitlan. There he... |
2022 |
| Ekrem Korkut, Lara B. Fowler, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Davin Holen, E. Lance Howe, Guangqing Chi |
ADDRESSING CLIMATE IMPACTS IN ALASKA NATIVE TRIBES: LEGAL BARRIERS FOR COMMUNITY RELOCATION DUE TO THAWING PERMAFROST AND COASTAL EROSION |
40 UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 185 (2022) |
Rural communities in Alaska--predominantly Alaska Native Tribes--are at the forefront of climate change impacts and climate justice concerns in the United States. According to the 2019 Alaska statewide threat assessment report, 29 communities are currently experiencing significant climate change-related erosion. Further, 38 communities face... |
2022 |
| Christian Webber |
AIDING EMPLOYMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT ON TRIBAL LANDS: AN ANALYSIS OF HIRING PREFERENCES AND THEIR USE IN THE MINING INDUSTRY |
12 Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 298 (Summer, 2022) |
This Note analyzes hiring preferences on tribal lands in the mining industry within the United States and particularly in the State of Arizona, which has a relatively high number of both mines and federally recognized tribes. Arizona has its own robust history and case law on hiring preferences in the mining industry for tribal members. This Note... |
2022 |
| Matt Reynolds |
AMERICA'S LOST CHILDREN |
108-JUL ABA Journal 42 (June/July, 2022) |
When researchers began the painstaking work of identifying Indigenous children who died at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in Nebraska, they kept making chilling discoveries. Although old newspaper clippings, student newsletters and death records revealed students had died of flu, complications from tuberculosis, measles, polio and... |
2022 |
| K. Soundarya Lakshmi |
AN ANALYSIS ON CRISIS-CRITICAL PATENTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC - AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE |
102 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 607 (October, 2022) |
In December 2019, an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, manifested itself as a global health tragedy. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced it as a public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020 and as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The virus, later named COVID-19, until today continues to be... |
2022 |
| James D. Diamond |
AN UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH: LAW AS A WEAPON OF OPPRESSION OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND |
27 Roger Williams University Law Review 255 (Spring, 2022) |
Southern New England, today, is a de facto exception to much of U.S. Indian law and policy, with progress sustained by Indigenous peoples in the region at a bare minimum. The exception is the product of more than three hundred years of discrimination and persecution with law employed as the primary weapon. After the conclusion of seventeenth... |
2022 |
| Avery Locklear |
ARE YOU NATIVE AMERICAN? |
100 North Carolina Law Review Forum 118 (2022) |
Throughout history, our nation has been obsessed with the identity of various groups of people inhabiting the United States. Since the founding, Native Americans have been tasked with protecting the traditions and customs that shape their identity against colonized norms. In the late 1800s, the Indian Major Crimes Act was created to further strip... |
2022 |
| Michael D. McNally, John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Carleton College |
AUTHOR'S RESPONSE, DEFEND THE SACRED: NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM BEYOND THE FIRST AMENDMENT BY MICHAEL D. MCNALLY. PRINCETON: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020. PP. 400. $99.95 (CLOTH); $26.95 (PAPER); $26.95 (DIGITAL). ISBN: 9780691190891 |
37 Journal of Law and Religion 199 (January, 2022) |
Keywords: Native American religions; sacred places; Indigenous; Native American I am humbled to have had such close and perceptive readings of a book that I had always imagined as successful if it convened further conversation. My interlocutors in this symposium are people whose work and example I admire deeply, and readers are encouraged to take... |
2022 |
| Nicole Russo |
BACK TO BASICS: THE SUPREME COURT'S RETURN TO FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF FEDERAL INDIAN LAW IN MCGIRT v. OKLAHOMA AHEAD OF EQUAL PROTECTION CHALLENGE TO THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT OF 1978 |
55 Suffolk University Law Review 123 (2022) |
[T]he Supreme Court has been inattentive, flippant, and disrespectful of Indian rights, and has seen its task as one of finding arguments that will make actions by the other two branches appear legal. Many doctrines' have emerged over the course of 170 years of hearing Indian cases, but the various courts have felt no compulsion to follow... |
2022 |
| MJ Palau-McDonald |
BLOCKCHAINS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SELF-DETERMINATION FOR THE NATIVE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE: TOWARD RESTORATIVE STEWARDSHIP OF INDIGENOUS LANDS |
57 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 393 (Summer, 2022) |
Introduction. 394 I. Four Values of Restorative Justice for Native Peoples. 397 A. Mo'omeheu: Cultural Integrity. 398 B. 'ina: Land and Natural Resources. 398 C. Mauli Ola: Social Determinants of Health and WellBeing. 399 D. Ea: Self-Governance. 399 II. Contextual History of Hawai'i's Public Land Trust. 400 A. Native Hawaiian Values, Customs, and... |
2022 |
| Kirsten Matoy Carlson |
BRINGING CONGRESS AND INDIANS BACK INTO FEDERAL INDIAN LAW: THE RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW OF AMERICAN INDIANS |
97 Washington Law Review 725 (October, 2022) |
Abstract: Congress and Native Nations have renegotiated the federal-tribal relationship in the past fifty years. The courts, however, have failed to keep up with Congress and recognize this modern federal-tribal relationship. As a result, scholars, judges, and practitioners often characterize federal Indian law as incoherent and inconsistent. This... |
2022 |
| Alec Johnson |
BRINGING HISTORY HOME: STRATEGIES FOR THE INTERNATIONAL REPATRIATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL PROPERTY |
126 Dickinson Law Review 859 (Spring, 2022) |
The theft of Native American cultural items has been ongoing since Europeans began to colonize the Americas. As a result, millions of Native American artifacts are now located outside the borders of the United States. Native American tribes have long sought international repatriation--the return of these cultural objects to their tribal owners.... |
2022 |
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CHAPTER TWO INDIGENOUS INTERPRETATIONS: INVOKING THE THIRD INDIAN CANON TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE |
135 Harvard Law Review 1568 (April, 2022) |
As long as the rivers run, as long as the tide flows, and as long as the sun shines, you will have land, fish and game for your frying pans, and timber for your lodges, Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens reassured the signatories of the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott. The Duwamish, Suquamish, Snoqualmie, Snohomish, Lummi, Nooksack,... |
2022 |
| James D. Diamond |
COLONIAL LEGISLATION AFFECTING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND AS ORGANIZED BY STATE |
27 Roger Williams University Law Review 404 (Spring, 2022) |
A. Massachusetts 1633 (and subsequently in 1637) Indians have (qualified) title to land; Civilized Indians shall have land allotted to them; Indians are not to be dispossessed of their lands; None may buy land from Indians; No arms or ammunition may be traded with the Indians. 1633 (and subsequently in 1637, 1640, 1641, 1642, 1646, 1648,... |
2022 |
| Sydney Groll |
COMMUNITIES AS CARETAKERS: THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT AS AN ANTIRACIST FRAMEWORK FOR ALL CHILD WELFARE CASES |
19 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 279 (Spring, 2022) |
Americans have long been trained to see the deficiencies of people rather than policy. It's a pretty easy mistake to make: People are in our faces. Policies are distant. We are particularly poor at seeing the policies lurking behind the struggles of people. --Ibram X. Kendi The child welfare system is racist. As with all systems in the United... |
2022 |
| Ritsuko Kurita , Kanagawa University |
COPING WITH WELFARE SHAME: RESPONSES OF URBAN INDIGENOUS AND NON-INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TO "MUTUAL OBLIGATION" REQUIREMENTS IN AUSTRALIA |
45 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 171 (November, 2022) |
This article examines how Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in cities navigate welfare and the mutual obligation regime in Australia. Since the introduction of the mutual obligation requirements (MORs) and the accompanying Work for the Dole program, initially for Indigenous and later for non-Indigenous welfare beneficiaries, welfare recipients... |
2022 |
| Brayden Jack Parker |
'CORNERSTONE UPON WHICH REST ALL OTHERS': UTILIZING CANONS OF STATUTORY INTERPRETATION TO CONFIRM AN ENFORCEABLE TRUST DUTY FOR NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE |
90 George Washington Law Review 237 (February, 2022) |
In 1976, the federal government passed the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA) in furtherance of its special trust responsibility owed to Native Americans. Through the IHCIA, Congress created the Indian Health Service, which provides health care to five million members of federally recognized tribes. In recent years, however, the Indian... |
2022 |
| Judith Dworkin |
COURTS HAVE MUCH TO RESOLVE IN DETERMINING INDIAN WATER RIGHTS |
36-WTR Natural Resources & Environment 39 (Winter, 2022) |
A sustainable water supply is critical for viable communities. In the western United States, this has meant the development of water law regimes to support the area's growing population. These regimes set objectives for obtaining and controlling limited water and diverting, storing, and delivering this vital resource. The federal government,... |
2022 |
| Erica Thunder, Commissioner, North Dakota Department of Labor and Human Rights |
CREATING SPACE FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN LAW |
97 North Dakota Law Review 331 (2022) |
First of all, there's a lot of thanks to go around. One thing that was not in my bio, and because Michelle Rivard Parks was just here as a great moderator by the way, hi Michelle, but I have also served as a law clerk with the Tribal Judicial Institute, which she had spoken about and I worked under her and Judge B.J. Jones who I know is, or has... |
2022 |
| Lia Maria Fulgaro |
DEATH BY APATHY: TOLERANCE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S FAILURE TO FUND PROMISED HEALTHCARE CAUSES LOSS OF NATIVE AMERICAN LIVES |
20 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 583 (Winter, 2022) |
In 2015, Indian Health Services (IHS), the federal agency responsible for providing Native Americans with promised healthcare, closed Rosebud Hospital Emergency Department in South Dakota due to lack of compliance with basic safety and sanitation guidelines. In response, the local Rosebud Sioux Tribe sued IHS in an effort to keep the emergency... |
2022 |
| Janice Beller |
DEFENDING THE GOLD STANDARD: AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES FIGHT TO SAVE THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT |
65-FEB Advocate 16 (February, 2022) |
While most folks rush in and out of their local post office, indifferently dropping off or picking up mail on their way to somewhere else, Malissa Poog remembers the Blackfoot Post Office with an entirely different set of feelings. Melissa, a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe, fondly remembers often visiting the post office with her mother as a... |
2022 |
| Greg Johnson, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara |
DEFENDING THE SACRED INTO THE FUTURE, DEFEND THE SACRED: NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM BEYOND THE FIRST AMENDMENT BY MICHAEL D. MCNALLY. PRINCETON: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020. PP. 400. $99.95 (CLOTH); $26.95 (PAPER); $26.95 (DIGITAL). ISBN: 9780 |
37 Journal of Law and Religion 170 (January, 2022) |
Keywords: Indigenous sacred law; Mauna Kea First, I thank Dana Lloyd for organizing the American Academy of Religion panel from which this book review symposium springs and Silas Allard for coordinating us. Also I thank Michael McNally for writing a most impressive and useful book. I have learned so much from Defend the Sacred and rely upon it as a... |
2022 |
| Narayan Narasimhan |
DEFINING THE SCOPE OF BURIAL RIGHTS UNDER THE NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT |
9/22/2022 University of Chicago Law Review Online Online 1 (22-Sep-22) |
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) creates a comprehensive federal statutory scheme to protect Native American graves and accord human remains and objects of cultural patrimony dignity and respect. To further the statute's objectives, NAGPRA requires both federal agencies and museums to identify Native American... |
2022 |
| Dominic A. Azzopardi |
DUAL TAXATION IN INDIAN COUNTRY: THE STRUGGLE TO CORRECT COTTON PETROLEUM |
67 Wayne Law Review 311 (Winter, 2022) |
ABSTRACT. 311 I. Introduction. 312 II. The Indian Commerce Clause, Preemption, and the Williams v. Lee Balancing Test. 313 A. The History of the Indian Commerce Clause. 314 B. The Construction of Federal Preemption and Williams v. Lee. 316 1. The History and Application of Williams v. Lee. 316 2. The Unique Use of Preemption in Federal Indian Law.... |
2022 |
| Laura Cahier |
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S RIGHTS AGAINST ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLENCE |
13 George Washington Journal of Energy & Environmental Law 37 (2022) |
Throughout the world, Indigenous women have denounced the disproportionate effects of environmental destruction, natural resource extraction, land exploitation, or intensive agriculture on every aspect of their lives and integrity, especially when these activities are conducted within or close to the lands and territories that Indigenous peoples... |
2022 |
| Ann Laquer Estin |
EQUAL PROTECTION AND THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT: STATES, TRIBAL NATIONS, AND FAMILY LAW |
35 Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 201 (2022) |
The complex legal relationship between states, the United States, and Native nations can produce serious confusion in family law. Our system of federal Indian law, developed over several centuries, recognizes tribal sovereignty and defines the scope of state power with respect to federally-recognized Indian lands and communities. For the most part,... |
2022 |
| Ann Laquer Estin |
EQUAL PROTECTION AND THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT: STATES, TRIBAL NATIONS, AND FAMILY LAW |
35 Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 201 (2022) |
The complex legal relationship between states, the United States, and Native nations can produce serious confusion in family law. Our system of federal Indian law, developed over several centuries, recognizes tribal sovereignty and defines the scope of state power with respect to federally-recognized Indian lands and communities. For the most part,... |
2022 |
| Megan Uren |
EVERY 66 HOURS. DEAD OR DISAPPEARED. A COLONIAL GENDERED LENS ON GENOCIDE: CASE STUDY ON CANADA'S GENOCIDE AGAINST INDIGENOUS WOMEN, GIRLS, AND 2SLGBTQQIA PEOPLE |
50 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 167 (Spring, 2022) |
Genocide is happening today, and it will be happening tomorrow. It is not yet time to tell volunteers to stop dredging the Red River for dead bodies of Indigenous women and girls nor time for red dresses to stop being hung on the Highway of Tears. There are dead bodies in the water. There are missing bodies who were taken along wooded highways .... |
2022 |
| Joëlle Klein |
EXAMINING COMITY AND THE EXHAUSTION DOCTRINE IN TRIBAL COURT CIVIL JURISDICTION: THE CHEROKEE NATION'S OPIOID LITIGATION |
97 Washington Law Review 1119 (December, 2022) |
Abstract: The opioid epidemic has devastated communities throughout the United States over the last two decades. Native American and Alaska Native tribes faced disproportionate impacts and suffered the long-lasting consequences that opioid addiction causes families and communities. In response, states and municipalities across the United States... |
2022 |