Pauline Toboulidis | September 18, 2019 | American Indian Law
An article for Law360 Access to Justice addresses the often extreme circumstances, and vast distances, indigenous victims, defendants and witnesses must traverse in order to testify in court. Many reservations have their own tribal courts. However, due to the complex...
Robert J. Miller | August 22, 2019 | American Indian Law
The “Doctrine of Discovery” is the modern-day name for the international law principle that European nations used to claim most of the non-European world. The Doctrine was applied against Native peoples in North America by England, France, Spain, Holland, and Russia....
The Indigenous Law & Policy Center | August 15, 2019 | American Indian Law
This post originally appeared on Turtle Talk on August 9, 2019.The Fifth Circuit overturned the Northern District of Texas today with strong language supporting ICWA. The Court found that the plaintiffs did have standing, but found against them on all other counts....
Kate Fort | July 26, 2019 | American Indian Law
Decision here.This settles a long running string of cases out of the Minnesota federal courts in which the non-Indian parents of tribal member children argued there was no tribal jurisdiction over their children when they lived on the tribal reservation due to ICWA...
Michael Blumm and Cari Baermann | June 12, 2019 | American Indian Law
AbstractFifty years ago, Judge Robert Belloni handed down an historic treaty fishing rights case in Sohappy v. Smith, later consolidated into United States v. Oregon, which remains among the longest running federal district court cases in history. Judge Belloni ruled...
