One of the most well received speakers at this year’s gathering of the United South and Eastern Tribes (USET) in Washington, D.C...
The Indian Legal Program (ILP) at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, a graduate school of Arizona State University, recently hired Robert J. Miller and Gregory L...
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...
The Juaneño Band of Mission Indians is mourning the loss of its vice chairwoman, Francine Pala Sommers Yorba, who walked on December 7 at her home in San Juan Capistrano, Californi...
Duane Champagne
December 08, 2012
A remarkable feature about indigenous nations is that they have continued after more than 500 years of colonial efforts to assimilate and dismantle them...
Hundreds of tribal leaders descended on Washington December 5 to take President Barack Obama up on his invitation to attend the fourth White House Tribal Nations Conference of his ...
Duane Champagne
December 01, 2012
The answer to the question posed by the title of this essay seems, at first glance, to actually be pretty straightforward...
More government reform may be on the horizon for the Navajo Nation...
Criminal justice administration in the state of Alaska is very centralized. It is also very ineffective...
Though she received two prestigious awards in less than one week in September, that doesn’t begin to tell the story of Grand Ronde tribal elder Kathryn Harrison...

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