Matthew L.M. Fletcher | June 30, 2022 | American Indian Law
This article was originally published on SCOTUSblog.com on June 29, 2022. On the second-to-last day of the 2021-22 term, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Oklahoma — and all other states — possesses concurrent jurisdiction with the federal government over crimes...
Lauren Klosinski | January 29, 2021 | American Indian Law
An article from Vice details how the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma could affect the lives and sentences of Native American’s convicted of crimes in the 3 million acres of eastern Oklahoma that is now recognized as “Indian Country.” The...
Aila Hoss | November 25, 2020 | American Indian Law
Aila Hoss of the University of Tulsa College of Law has posted “Indiana’s Indian Laws: Indigenous Erasure and Racism in the Land of the Indians” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:In response to a request for funding on Tribal and Indian law research, a director level...
Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Kaighn Smith, Jr., Wenona T. Singel and Jennifer Morinigo | May 18, 2020 | American Indian Law
The following text is excerpted from Restatement of the Law, The Law of American Indians, Tentative Draft No. 4, Chapter. 4. Tribal Economic Development Included below is the complete Section 52. Tribal Regulatory Powers on Indian Lands from Subchapter 1 – Indian...
Ronald J. Mann | May 8, 2020 | American Indian Law
This article was originally published on SCOTUSblog.com on April 30, 2020. McGirt v. Oklahoma will bring the justices a pronounced sense of déjà vu, as they hear argument for the second time in two years about whether the eastern half of Oklahoma is an Indian...
