Steve Russell

The Context and Content of Sovereignty

Sovereignty is not what it used to be, and I am not speaking of Indian sovereignty in particular. Sometimes I think about the rise of the nation-state with bemusement at the customs of historians....

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July 24, 2012

Carter Center Report on Cherokee Elections Reinforces International Recognition of Tribal Sovereignty

Brian Daffron
May 14, 2012
The Carter Center has been invited to serve as an impartial observer in over 90 elections in 36 countries since 1989...

Consensus Among Government and Tribal Justice Systems

Duane Champagne
May 08, 2012
In this country, all citizens are equal under the law—in theory...

UMass Boston Hosts Art Exhibit to Promote Native Studies Program

ICTMN Staff
April 19, 2012

From today through April 26, the Harbor Art Gallery at the

State Versus Tribe Tobacco Issues Resurface

Carol Berry
March 09, 2012
Repeated efforts by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation to conduct tobacco sales without state intervention appear to have floundered in a federal appeals court which dismissed sovereignty...

From Tribal Representatives to State Legislatures

Duane Champagne
January 25, 2012
From time immemorial, most Indian nations have exchanged visits between knowledgeable tribal members and leaders...
Charles Kader

Bear Clan Representative Arrested for "Stealing" What He Considers His Homeland

Kanaretiio, identified in New York court documents as 51-year old William Roger Jock, serves as the Bear Clan representative of the Men’s Council of the Akwesasne Kanienkehaka Kaianerehkowa Kanonhsesne, or, The People of the Way of the Longhouse....

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January 16, 2012
Ray Cook, ICTMN Op-Ed Editor

Beware the Voices of Political Assimilation

A Haudenosaunee orator and representative to Nations has said that “sovereignty is the act there of.”...

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January 19, 2012

Concurrent Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country

Duane Champagne
December 27, 2011
In recent decades tribal governments and communities have reported through congressional testimonies and research on the administration of justice that reservation Indian communiti...
Steven Newcomb

Theologian Francisco de Vitoria and International Law

In his groundbreaking work Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law (Cambridge, 2004),...

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December 19, 2011

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