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...Navajo Nation v. Russell Means catches the American judicial system in a difficult position...
...case, which was heard before the Navajo Nation Supreme Court Saturday morning at Harvard Law School (HLS), illustrates the complicated and tenuous relationship between the national and American Indian judicial systems...
Means, an Oglala Sioux, is charged by the Navajo Nation Supreme Court with one count of "threatening" and two counts of battery stemming from a 1997 incident with his in-laws...
Means has argued that the Navajo court has no jurisdiction over him because he is from another tribe. He claims that current law--which makes him accountable to the Navajo judicial system because he is an American Indian--is racist and unfair...
Under this ruling, Means would not be subject to Navajo law, because he is not from that tribe...