The two surviving children of sports great Jim Thorpe won a critical ruling Friday in federal court that could clear the way for his remains to be removed from a mausoleum in the P...
Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, announced that Jason P...
Amanda Blackhorse, a 31-year-old Navajo social worker, was in Alexandria, Virginia in early March to begin the next phase of getting the National Football League’s Washington, D.C...
U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom announced March 6 in a U.S. Department of Justice news release that Ruben Dean Littlehead, 38, Lawrence, Kansas, and Brian K...
Duane Champagne
December 23, 2012
According to current U.S. legal interpretations, non-Indian U.S. citizens are not subject to tribal criminal jurisdiction. A critical well-known case is where the U.S...
Kivalina has lost once and for all its novel lawsuit against oil giants for damages suffered from climate change...
In this country, all citizens are equal under the law—in theory...
Indian voters living in and around Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation may be able to elect more Native county commissioners thanks to a ruling by a federal appeals court...
Carol Berry
February 15, 2012
Although the courts and others may question tribes’ acceptance of their non-Native business operators’ activities, the skepticism may be a remnant of “paternalistic days” that are ...
Bill Lomax

In the Carcieri v. Salazar decision, the Supreme Court stood 75 years of policy and practice on its head....

December 14, 2011

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