October 10, 2016 at 10:00 am
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- What are some of the colonial justifications for early treatment of Native Americans?
- Which early writers were influential for Spanish and British conduct in North America? What did those writers say?
- What is the doctrine of discovery? What case is this from?
- What is the right of occupancy and how does it interact with the doctrine of discovery?
- Name the eras of Indian law, which a 2-3 sentence description of the era.
- What was the Indian Removal Act? What did it say and what did it do?
- What is the holding of the Cherokee Nation v. Georgia? What are the implications of the holding?
- What does it mean for tribes to be a domestic dependent nations?
- What is the holding of Worcester v. Georgia? What were the practical implications of this act on the tribes (i.e., what happened to the Cherokee as a result of this case?)
- What was the goal of the reservation policy?
- When, how, and why did treaty making end?
- What is the Major Crimes Act? Which case led to the passage of this act?
- What is the basis for the validity of the Major Crimes Act? (i.e., what part of the Constitution?)
- What did the Dawes Act say and do? What was the purpose/motivation for this act? What was the result of this act?
- What do we learn from the Lone Wolf case?
- What did the Indian reorganization act do?
- How does tribal termination work? How does congress accomplish it and what are the legal implications?
- What is plenary power? What does it mean to say that Congress has plenary power over tribes and what is the source of that power?
- What are the canons of Indian law (most people list 4)?
- How do we determine whether a statute abrogates treaty rights?
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