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    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...
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  • Independent tribal courts are judicial systems that are established and operated by Native American tribes within the United States. These courts are separate...
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    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...
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  • federal courts) has legal authority over tribal reservations. Thus, unless Congress passes a law regarding same-sex marriage that is applicable to tribal governments...
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    Puyallup Tribal Council, and the three tribal courts: the Puyallup Tribal Court, the Puyallup Tribal Court of Appeals, and the Puyallup Tribal Children's...
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  • 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...
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    Hopi (section Tribal courts)
    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...
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    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...
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  • Dollar General Corp. v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Roberts Court)
    (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...
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  • 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...
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    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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    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...
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    Tribe (redirect from Tribal)
    New Tribal Revolution Nomad Pantribal sodalities Patrilineality Segmentary society Social group Stateless society Tribal chief Tribal name Tribal sovereignty...
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  • 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...
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    judge on the Orutsararmiut Native Council's tribal court, executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Bethel city councilor, and...
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  • 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...
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  • The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (formerly Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc.) is one of two federally recognized tribes of Wampanoag people in Massachusetts...
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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...
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  • 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...
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    Indian agency police (category Native American tribal police)
    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...
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    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...
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  • Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Burger Court)
    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...
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  • Beth din (redirect from Rabbinical court)
    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...
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    "homophobic". According to a September 2022 Vanity Fair article, the tribal court dismissed the request for a permanent protective order, and the parents...
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    enrolled as members without tribal consent. By effectively abolishing the remainder of tribal courts, tribal governments, and tribal land claims in the Indian...
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    The Federally Administered Tribal Areas, commonly known as FATA, was a semi-autonomous tribal region in north-western Pakistan that existed from 1947 until...
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    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...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction...
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  • later criticised by the Supreme Court. To protest the Meitei demands for the scheduled tribe status, the All Tribal Students' Union Manipur conducted...
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    jurisdiction previously held by tribal courts. United States v. Quiver, 241 U.S. 602 (1916): Congress left to the Indian Tribal Courts jurisdiction over all crimes...
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