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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...
...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...
...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...