More than 565 Indigenous tribal governments exercise extensive sovereign and political powers within the United States today. Only about 230 of the native communities that created these governments, however, have chosen to adopt written constitutions to define and control the political powers of...

American Indian Tribes and Indigenous peoples around the world are among the poorest groups in their countries. Economic development is an absolutely crucial issue for these governments and their people. Recently, two different efforts have been undertaken to create beneficial development based...

Self-determination is an important concept in federal Indian law and for American Indian Nations. Every distinctly identified group of people has the right to determine for themselves how they will live and what religious and cultural concepts and practices they will pursue. The Makah Indian...

Media stereotypes of Indians abound. The myth of the "drunken Indian" competes with the myth of the "noble savage." Federal Indian alcohol policy helps to perpetuate the myth of out of control alcohol problems in Indian Country. This Article addresses the history of federal alcohol control,...

Creating sustainable economies is crucial to the future viability of Indian reservations and communities and is the most important issue that tribal governments face today. The exercise of sovereignty and jurisdiction, and the preservation of tribal cultures are largely dependent on improving...

Professor Miller agrees with the conclusions of these three professor-authors that U.S. foreign affairs scholars have almost completely overlooked Indian nations and individual Indian actors. It appears that this omission has occurred primarily because of the statement by the U.S. Supreme Court...

Indian country in the United States is incredibly poor. Indian nations desperately need to develop reservation economic activities. Most tribal governments, however, are primarily focused on developing tribally owned businesses. This article argues for Indian peoples and governments to revive...

In McGirt v. Oklahoma, the U.S. Supreme Court held in a 5-4 decision that the 1866 Muscogee (Creek) Nation Reservation still exists. Thus, one million Oklahomans found out that they live on the 3,250,000 acre Creek Nation reservation, including 400,000 people in the city of Tulsa. The Court...

On July 9, 2020, the United States Supreme Court held by a 5-4 vote that the borders of the 1866 Muscogee (Creek) Nation reservation in Oklahoma remain intact. The decision landed like a bombshell. Overnight, the Creek Reservation was reaffirmed and recognized as covering three and a quarter...

What gaps exist in the justice system that result in a need for services provided by community economic development attorneys? What is the evidence that those gaps actually exist? How do we know that community economic development practitioners fill those gaps, and in what way? These are merely...