Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper

Lists cases by docket number rather than chronologically or by Term.

Provides an overview of the case involving child custody proceedings.

Analyzes the issues of cross deputization by covering federal Indian law, state criminal jurisdiction, law enforcement structure, use of cross-deputization, cooperative agreements, and solutions for streamlined law enforcement.

Comments on the history of the relationship between the Michigan tribal courts and the Michigan judicial branch.

Comments on a collection of essays that address topics from general economic development to labour and tax law.

Argues that Congress had sufficient authority to enact the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Looks at three types of entities: tribal chartered businesses, tribally owned business, and section 17 corporations.

Looks at the issue of equitable remedies into the field of Native American land claims.

Respondent challenges the judgment of the Court of Appeals which terminated her parental rights to her son.

"This working paper covers three areas of law concerning the equitable defenses of laches, acquiescence, and impossibility."

Discusses the Act which prohibits employment discrimination based on religion, race, colour, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, familial status or marital status.

Paper surveys the impacts of the war on poverty, drugs and terror on Native Americans.

Discusses the decision to issue mining permits, recent Supreme Court cases and the battle for religious freedom even under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).

Looks at reasons the MCRI would have a negative effect if passed.

Comments on the risk to Native American treaty rights if Asian carp enter the Great Lakes and wipe out existing fish stocks.

Looks at tribal sovereignty, the United States constitution, treaties and more.

Comments on the length of time it took for the Band to be re-recognized as a sovereign nation.

"...this article attempts to provide an adequate theory as to how tribal judges should find and apply customary law on a normative level."

Looks at a legal dispute over taxation issues.

Looks at the three points of law concerning the Supreme Court's Carcieri decision which concerned taking lands into trust for Indian tribes federally recognized in 1934 when the IRA (Indian Reorganizaiton Act) was passed.

Looks at the major legal implications for today's relocated Native Americans as a result of Termination Era programs.

Comments on the necessity of generating revenue to pay for the provision of governmental services.

Discusses the importance for all state court practitioners to understand the application of different laws and standards when handling Native American citizens in family law cases.