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....
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...
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....
In recent decades tribal governments and communities have reported through congressional testimonies and research on the administration of justice that reservation Indian communiti...