[DOWNLOAD] "Tribal Self-Determination in the Age of Scarcity." by South Dakota Law Review # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Tribal Self-Determination in the Age of Scarcity.
- Author : South Dakota Law Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 236 KB
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I. INTRODUCTION Tribal sovereignty and the jurisdictional counterpart of tribal sovereign immunity from suit are the bedrock principles of tribal self-determination. (1) The contours and qualities of these principles in contemporary federal Indian law jurisprudence, however, are elusive; a sign perhaps of the weighty re-evaluation underway in the United States Supreme Court of their fundamental premises. (2) As recently observed by a prominent Indian law scholar, "Indian rights are losing the limited protection they had as the Court forsakes foundation principles and expands the ambit of control over Indian tribes to include not just congressional but also judicial power to redefine and restrict tribal sovereignty." (3)