Word: tribalized
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...Someone could commit a crime [on tribal land] and no one would be able to step in," he said...
...Means case is the latest conundrum in the American judicial system's attempt to address the authority of individual tribal judicial systems over those not belonging to the tribe...
...their quest to carve out a defined scope for the powers of traditional tribal courts, Congress and the Supreme Court have differed over the extent of that jurisdiction...
...Supreme Court restricted the jurisdiction of tribal governments in Duro v. Reina, ruling that individual tribes only had authority over their own members, not over American Indians from other tribes on their reservations...
...Congress reversed the Court's ruling, expanding the Indian Civil Rights Act to give individual tribal governments criminal jurisdiction over any American Indian on their lands...