The Supreme Court of Canada delivered three decisions in 2002 involving the Aboriginal peoples of Canada. None of these decisions dealt directly with Aboriginal or treaty rights. They were concerned instead with provincial authority in relation to Aboriginal cultural property, creation of and...

Note analyzing the failure of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and other federal and state anti-trafficking tools to address the sex trafficking of American Indian women and girls throughout the United States

It has now been fifty years since the beginning of the self-determination era. Tribal leaders as well as government officials have hailed it the most successful program ever for Indian tribes. Tribes now receive more than $8 billion annually to execute a wide array of programs that were formerly...

Critics of American Indian law have often complained about federal interference in the internal affairs of American Indian nations. The author ponders how independent the critics really want American Indian nations to be and whether secession theory might help us think about the theory and...

Although past researchers have sometimes labeled American Indians “hard-to-reach,” a review of the literature identifies several available strategies for improving sampling and response rates for surveys of this population. After discussing various approaches to defining who is American...

This article was prepared for presentation at the American Indian Identity Conference held at Michigan State University, October 16-17, 2008. After classifying a year of Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) cases in state courts, it became apparent that California had both the highest number of ICWA...