Tribal sovereignty in the United States is the concept of the inherent authority of Indigenous tribes to govern themselves within the borders of the United...

Independent tribal courts are judicial systems that are established and operated by Native American tribes within the United States. These courts are separate...

the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ordered that O'Connor's judgment be stayed, holding that it violated tribal sovereignty. On August...

federal courts) has legal authority over tribal reservations. Thus, unless Congress passes a law regarding same-sex marriage that is applicable to tribal governments...

Puyallup Tribal Council, and the three tribal courts: the Puyallup Tribal Court, the Puyallup Tribal Court of Appeals, and the Puyallup Tribal Children's...

The tribal council generally has jurisdiction over the reservation, not the U.S. state it is located in, but is subject to federal law. Court jurisdiction...

and the "Navajo Tribal Court of Appeals", which was the highest tribal court and its only appellate court. In 1978, the Navajo Tribal Council established...

the Hopi Courts. The Hopi Tribal Government operates a Trial Court and Appellate Court in Keams Canyon. These courts operate under a Tribal Code, amended...

(2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court was asked to determine if an American Indian tribal court had the jurisdiction to hear a...

director before serving in as the Kenaitze Indian Tribe executive director of tribal administration. As of 2017, the tribe had 3,192 members, 1,801 of whom lived...

Court case in which the Court held that tribal court remedies must be exhausted before tribal court jurisdiction can be challenged in federal court....

judge on the Orutsararmiut Native Council's tribal court, executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Bethel city councilor, and...

Shirley and Tina Tsinigine. The Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation was originally created as the Navajo Tribal Court of Appeals on 1 April 1959 as part of...

that it first had to "exhaust all remedies" in Tribal Court. This is considered a major victory for tribal jurisprudence. During the earliest days of the...

Talker. He was first elected Navajo Tribal Chairman in 1970. In 1989, MacDonald was removed from office by the Navajo Tribal Council, pending the results of...

judges, court commissioners, administrative law judges or tribal court judges. If known, it will be listed if a judge has served on multiple courts and their...

The Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 is a law, signed into effect by President Obama, that expands the punitive abilities of tribal courts across the nation...

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Supreme Court rulings have designated more or less power to tribal governments, depending on federal policy toward Indians. Numerous Supreme Court decisions...

Tribe, 435 U.S. 191 (1978), is a United States Supreme Court case deciding that Indian tribal courts have no criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians. The...

A tribal chief, chieftain, or headman is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom. There is no definition for "tribe". The concept of tribe is a broadly...

several tribal appellate courts and serves as the Chief Justice for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Court of Appeals and the Rosebud Sioux Supreme Court and...

is XXX on January 23, 2023, Sami Zayn was put on trial by Reigns in "Tribal Court", in which Reigns accused Zayn of plotting against The Bloodline and...

a court of 23 All towns of a minimum size (either 120 or 230 people) had to have a court of 23, which was under the jurisdiction of the tribal court The...

The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (formerly Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc.) is one of two federally recognized tribes of Wampanoag people in Massachusetts...

designed to slow the court process, then tried to prove Native American ancestry in an attempt to shift the criminal case to a tribal court. When these steps...

keep it away from the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Court. Judge Mario Gonzalez of the Rosebud Indian Reservation tribal court granted Eagle Deer's petition to disbar...

systems of tribal laws and tribal courts; the agency police also enforced these laws, and they testified and maintained order in the tribal courts. Since...

their governments and dissolution of tribal courts, allotment of communal lands to individuals registered as tribal members, and sale of lands declared...

Supreme Court case regarding the jurisdiction of Tribal Courts when state officials are sued by tribal members in tribal court. The Supreme Court unanimously...