Native American Resources

Published Articles

Christine Zuni Cruz, Shadow War Scholarship, Indigenous Legal Tradition, and Modern Law in Indian Country, 47 Washburn L.J. 631 (2008).

 

Patrice H. Kunesh, Tribal Self-Determination in the Age of Scarcity, 54 S.D. L. Rev. 398 (2009).

 

Aliza G. Organick, Tribal Law and Best Practices in Legal Education: Creating a New Path for the Study of Tribal Law, 19 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Policy 63 (2009).

 

Michael Riley, Promises, Justice Broken:   A Dysfunctional System Lets Serious Reservation Crimes Go Unpunished and Puts Indians At Risk , Denver Post, Nov. 21, 2007.  

 

Caprice L. Roberts, A Desert Grows Between Us – The Sovereignty Paradox at the Intersection of Tribal and Federal Courts, 65 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 347 (2008).

 

Robert O. Saunooke, Native Americans and the Federal Bench – The Time Has Come, The Judges’ Journal, Vol. 48, No. 4 at 25 (Fall 2009).

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Research and Reports

Centers for Disease Control.   February 8, 2008. Finds that American Indian and Alaska The survey found that two in five Native women (39 %) have been victims of intimate partner violence in their lifetime, compared with one in four women overall.  

 

Communities in Crisis:   Public Safety in Indian Country .   National Congress of American Indians, 2009 Presidential Transition Policy Brief.   Nov. 2008 .   Crime rates on Indian reservations continue to grow even while crime rates in the rest of the country have dropped.

 

Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA .   Amnesty International.   April 2007. 34% of Native women will be subject to rape or sexual assault in their lifetimes. http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/035/2007