Word: navajos
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...issue in the case is whether the Navajo Nation has criminal jurisdiction over Means, an American Indian who is Sioux but who has lived for a decade on a Navajo reservation with his half-Navajo wife...
Justice and history came to Harvard this weekend as the Navajo Supreme Court sat in a special session at the Harvard Law School (HLS) to hear the case of the Navajo Nation v. Russell Means...
...Navajo tribal court is the largest tribal court system in the United States, with 17 justices handling over 90,000 cases annually in seven districts that span the 27,000-square-mile Navajo reservation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah...
...Navajo nation case comes at a critical juncture for the tribe, which uses its court to address legal issues while respecting the Navajo way--a unique combination of traditional tribal dispute resolution and Anglo-American judicial methods...
According to materials distributed at thehearing, it is likely Navajo Nation v. RussellMeans is "one of the most important in Indian Lawin recent times" and described it as "very likely"to be heard by the Supreme Court...