Indian Law

Catalog description

Max Credit: (Max. 3) Surveys the law that applies to Native Americans and tribal governments. Deals primarily with federal law because of the unique relationship between the federal government and tribes, which are sovereign entities, and because federal law controls most Native American activities. The main issues are jurisdictional; that is, they concern the allocation of legislative (or regulatory) and judicial (both civil and criminal) jurisdiction among federal, tribal, and state governments.