Word: navajos
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Justice and history came to Harvard on Saturday morning 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...
...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...
...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 enormous 27,000-square-mile Navajo reservation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah...
...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 court with one count of "threatening" and two counts of "battery" in a 1997 incident between Means and his in-laws...