Federal Indian Law

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Class #10 Slides

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1. What are some of the colonial justifications for early treatment of Native Americans?
2. Which early writers were influential for Spanish and British conduct in North America? What did those writers say?
3. What is the doctrine of discovery? What case is this from?
4. What is the right of occupancy and how does it interact with the doctrine of discovery?
5. Name the eras of Indian law, which a 2-3 sentence description of the era.
6. What was the Indian Removal Act? What did it say and what did it do?
7. What is the holding of the Cherokee Nation v. Georgia? What are the implications of the holding?
8. What does it mean for tribes to be a domestic dependent nations?
9. 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?)
10. What was the goal of the reservation policy?
11. When, how, and why did treaty making end?
12. What is the Major Crimes Act? Which case led to the passage of this act?
13. What is the basis for the validity of the Major Crimes Act? (i.e., what part of the Constitution?)
14. What did the Dawes Act say and do? What was the purpose/motivation for this act? What was the result of this act?
15. What do we learn from the Lone Wolf case?
16. What did the Indian reorganization act do?
17. How does tribal termination work? How does congress accomplish it and what are the legal implications?
18. 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?
19. What are the canons of Indian law (most people list 4)?
20. How do we determine whether a statute abrogates treaty rights?

Class #9 Slides

FROM SIERRA CLUB

Let’s Stand in Solidarity

Buffalo Stands with Standing Rock!

You Can’t Drink Oil! Water is Life!

Please Join Us to Stand in Solidarity with the 100’s of tribes bravely gathered at Standing Rock to protect land and water. They have come together with the deep knowledge that water is life. We will have a table with No Northern Access Pipeline materials.

Time and Date– October 10th at 11am
Where and What– Rallying at army corp of engineers 1776 Niagara st. Buffalo. March down Niagara to W.Ferry down to the foot of Ferry then back along the river to Unity Island(located slightly south of army corp of engineers at 1731 Niagara st.) We will have a press conference at 11:30 am. We will be demanding the army corp of engineers to stop the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline and respect Indigenous Sovereignty of the Standing Rock Sioux and honor the Fort Laramie treaties. Please bring a dish if you can for a potluck following the rally and march at Unity Island. . Also Don’t Shop at all on this day and please don’t buy gas at sunoco for they are a huge funder of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

More on DAPL: http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/10/05/appeals-court-takes-up-nodapl-case-as-pi.asp and http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060043889/feed

Drilling proposal near blackfeet nation land: http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/10/05/energy-firm-still-seeking-to-drill-on-sa.asp

More about redskins trademark case: http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/10/04/washington-nfl-team-requests-delay-in-ra.asp

Class #8 Slides

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