Word: navajos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Memorial Church bells signaled 10 a.m. Saturday the three justices--Navajo Nation Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Yazzie and Associate Justices Raymond D. Austin and Irene M. Toledo--took their seats at the front of the Ames Courtroom...
Means is charged by the Navajo with one count of "threatening" and two counts of "battery" from a 1997 incident between Means and his in-laws. An Oglala Sioux actor, Means is the first national director of the American Indian Movement, an Indian rights group that led a two-month-long standoff at Wounded Knee...
Through his attorney John Trebon, Means argued that the Navajo Nation does not maintain jurisdiction over him because of a 1990 Supreme Court ruling that held that a "tribe's inherent powers extend only to members of that tribe...
Trebon argued that Means is the victim of racial discrimination because the Navajo Nation only has authority over him because he is an American Indian. Trebon pointed out that Means cannot vote or hold public office in the Navajo Nation, asking, "Why should he be subject to Navajo...
...Navajo Nation's chief prosecutor, Donovan D. Brown, said Means consented to Navajo law by living on the Navajo reservation...