Kaitlyn Schaeffer | February 8, 2018 | American Indian Law
Introduction Native Americans, like other minority groups, face racially motivated disenfranchisement efforts. Watershed victories for equal access to the ballot – including the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Nineteenth Amendment – did not affect Native...
Alexander T. Skibine | December 12, 2017 | American Indian Law
Since 1831, Indian nations have been viewed as Domestic Dependent Nations located within the geographical boundaries of the United States. Although Chief Justice John Marshall acknowledged that Indian nations had a certain amount of sovereignty, the exact extent of...
Jennifer Morinigo | December 7, 2017 | American Indian Law
The U.S Supreme Court denied a petition to hear a case involving whether, when, and to what extent the federal reserved right doctrine recognized in Winters v. United States pre-empts state-law regulation of groundwater. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the...
Stephanie Sanchez | November 13, 2017 | American Indian Law, Children and the Law
In the case, S.S. v. Colorado River Indian Tribes, the U.S. Supreme Court recently denied a petition for certiorari filed by the Goldwater Institute. The petition alleges the Indian Child Welfare Act, a federal law that established standards for the placement of...
Blake Gumprecht | October 30, 2017 | American Indian Law
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held hearings Wednesday, Oct. 25, on two bills introduced by North Dakota senators to address issues raised after the killing in August of a 22-year-old Fargo woman, Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, and abduction of...
