Landmark Indian Law Cases
This case focused on a land dispute on two tracts of land that did not actually intersect but were sold by a Tribe to colonizers.
Johnson v. McIntosh
This year, who became the first Native American appointed as a district court judge in New Mexico’s 11th Judicial District, serving San Juan and McKinley counties?
Brenna Clani-Washinawatok
This Act granted some Native American Tribes United States Citizenship.
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
The hit HULU exclusive show Reservation Dogs is set on what Nation?
Muscogee Creek Nation
This document refers to Native people as “Merciless Indian Savages.”
United States Declaration of Independence
This case held that Tribes lack the authority to prosecute non-Indians for offenses committed on Tribal land.
Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
Which 2018 court case ruled that New Mexico was failing to provide a sufficient public education to at-risk students, including Native American children?
Yazzie/Martinez v. The State of New Mexico
This law usurps the power of Tribes to govern themselves.
Public Law 280
What is the name of the novel by Louise Ehrdrich where a major crime is committed against a character, but the location where the crime occurred could be federal, state, or tribal land, and a significant portion of the narrative is taken up discussing if the crime falls under federal, state, or tribal jurisdiction?
The Round House
This Treaty promised that a Tribe would be entitled to a delegate in the United States House of Representatives.
Treaty of New Echota
In Carcieri v. Salazar (2009), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could take land into trust for tribes only if this specified circumstance had occurred.
The Tribe was under federal jurisdiction in 1934.
In 1948, which Native American veteran successfully challenged New Mexico's ban on Native American voting, leading to a landmark federal court decision in Trujillo v. Garley?
Miguel Trujillo
This law was passed on a congressional appropriations bill and removed the ability of Tribes to prosecute Indians for dangerous and violent crimes.
Major Crimes Act of 1885
In what hit movie, based on a book, are Osage tribal members systematically murdered for the retained rights to their reservation’s subsurface estate?
Killers of The Flower Moon
What is the name of the handbook that was published first in 1941 as a treatise on Federal Indian Law?
Felix Cohen's Handbook on Federal Indian Law
The Supreme Court's decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) affirmed that much of eastern Oklahoma remains Indian reservation land. What was the legal basis for this ruling?
Congress had never explicitly disestablished the reservation.
How many chapters are located on the Navajo Nation?
110
This Statute allows certain federally recognized Tribes to assume responsibility for federal programs and services, giving them greater control over their own governance.
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (1975)
In the second season of the hit TV show Dark Winds, the county sheriff wants to head deep into the Navajo Nation after a reprehensible suspect. Why does the character Bernadette Manuelito not let him go without her?
The Sheriff is not a Tribal police officer and has no jurisdiction in Indian Country.
What is the name of the Treaty which recognized the Black Hills as sacred land for the Lakota, Dakota, and Arapaho people and was later ruled in 1980 to have been violated by the federal government?
Treaty of Fort Laramie
This case held that Tribes may file a quiet title action claiming aboriginal title to lands which the Tribe historically occupied or otherwise used.
Jemez Pueblo v. United States
Which individual was the New Mexico Indian Law Section Attorney Achievement Award Recipient in 2017?
Rosalie “Lisa” Chavez
This statute was passed in 1978 to address the disproportionately high rate of forced removal of Native children from their traditional homes and essentially from Native American cultures as a whole.
The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978
The first black and white film made in New Mexico, “Indian Day School” was filmed on which Pueblo?
Pueblo of Isleta
This paper argued for the necessity of standing armies in a time of peace to protect the Western Frontier from attacks by Native Americans.
Federalist Papers #24