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13 - Dependent Sovereigns: Indian Tribes, States, and the Federal Courts

from Part IV - (Mis)Understandings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2019

By
Judith Resnik
Edited by
Grant Christensen  and
Melissa L. Tatum
Grant Christensen
Affiliation:
University of North Dakota
Melissa L. Tatum
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
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Summary

Dependent Sovereigns: examines the tension between tribal and federal sovereigns each competing to be independent from the other. Unlike states, Indian tribes have never ceded their sovereignty but appear to have lost much of it anyway, slowly eroded by the decisions of the federal judiciary. Resnik utilizes a federal courts perspective to argue that there is space in American jurisprudence to accommodate tribes as part of the interdependence of sovereigns in the American system.

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federal courtSanta ClarafeminismIndian lawjurispathic
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Reading American Indian Law
Foundational Principles
 , pp. 311 - 333
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Further Reading

Berger, Bethany R., Indian Policy and the Imagined Indian Woman, 14 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 103 (2004).Google Scholar
Cahn, Naomi, Family Law, Federalism, and the Federal Courts, 79 Iowa L. Rev. 1073 (1994).Google Scholar
Fletcher, Matthew L. M., Resisting Federal Courts on Tribal Jurisdiction, 81 U. Colo. L. Rev. 973 (2010).Google Scholar
Fletcher, Matthew L. M., The Supreme Court’s Indian Problem, 59 Hastings L.J. 579 (2008).Google Scholar
Gover, Kevin & Laurence, Robert, Avoiding Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez: The Litigation in Federal Court of Civil Actions under the Indian Civil Rights Act, 8 Hamline L. Rev. 497 (1985).Google Scholar
Jones, B.J., Welcoming Tribal Courts into the Judicial Fraternity: Emerging Issues in Tribal–State and Tribal–Federal Court Relations, 24 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 457 (1998).Google Scholar
Koehn, Melissa L., Civil Jurisdiction: The Boundaries between Federal and Tribal Courts, 29 Ariz. St. L.J. 705 (1997).Google Scholar
Laurence, Robert, A Quincentennial Essay on Martinez v. Santa Clara Pueblo, 28 Idaho L. Rev. 307 (1992).Google Scholar
Levinson, Sanford, On Political Boundary Lines, Multiculturalism, and the Liberal State, 72 Ind. L.J. 403 (1997).Google Scholar
Lawson, Gary, Territorial Governments and the Limits of Formalism, 78 Calif. L. Rev. 853 (1990).Google Scholar
Royster, Judith V., Stature and Scrutiny: Post-Exhaustion Review of Tribal Court Decisions, 46 Kan. L. Rev. 241 (1998).Google Scholar
Valencia-Weber, Gloria, Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez: Twenty-Five Years of Disparate Cultural Visions: An Essay Introducing the Case for Re-argument before the American Indian Nations Supreme Court, 14 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 49 (2004).Google Scholar

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