In our final episode of the season, we head to Indian Country and survey several strands of Supreme Court precedent that prevent Native Americans from putting their property to peaceful and productive use.
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Resources
Adam Crepelle, Becoming Nations Again: The Journey Towards Tribal Self-Determination
Terry Anderson, Renewing Indigenous Economies
Adam Crepelle, White Tape and Indian Wards: Removing the Federal Bureaucracy to Empower Tribal Economies and Self-Government
Sarah Krakoff, Mark the Plumber v. Tribal Empire, or Non-Indian Anxiety v. Tribal Sovereignty?: The Story of Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
Sidney L. Harring, The Distorted History that Gave Rise to the “So Called” Plenary Power Doctrine: The Story of United States v. Kagama.
Kenneth Bobroff, Retelling Allotment: Indian Property Rights and the Myth of Common Ownership
Sidney L. Harring, Crow Dog’s Case: A Chapter in the Legal History of Tribal Sovereignty
Armen H. Merjian, An Unbroken Chain of Injustice: The Dawes Act, Native American Trusts, and Cobell v. Salazar
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