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This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.
Georgia (1831), 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1 (1831), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case. The Cherokee Nation asked the Court to stop Georgia from enforcing state laws that took away their rights within the Cherokee territory. However, the Supreme Court declined to rule on the cases's merits, stating that it lacked the original jurisdiction ...
Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, 597 U.S. 629 (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case related to McGirt v. Oklahoma, decided in 2020.In McGirt, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Congress never properly disestablished the Indian reservations of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma when granting its statehood, and thus almost half the state was still considered to be Native American land.
The 5-4 decision means the government will cover millions in overhead costs that two tribes faced when they took over running their health care programs under a law meant to give Native Americans ...
The case greatly limited the influence of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 outside of tribal courts. In finding no private cause-of-action, the ability of individual tribe members to bring cases in a federal court for alleged violations of their rights under ICRA, was greatly diminished.
Asiba Tupahache, Matinecoc Nation Native American activist from New York. Clyde Warrior, activist for Native American civil rights. Kevin K. Washburn, former federal prosecutor, a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, and the General Counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission.
Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union: 521 U.S. 844 (1997) free speech, obscenity, CDA: State Oil Co. v. Khan: 522 U.S. 3 (1997) rule of reason applied to vertical maximum price fixing, overturned Albrecht v. Herald Co. Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government: 522 U.S. 520 (1998) native rights over tribal lands NCUA v. First ...
Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U.S. 94 (1884), was a United States Supreme Court landmark 1884 decision [1] [2] with respect to the citizenship status of Indians. [3]John Elk, a Winnebago Indian, was born on an Indian reservation within the territorial bounds of United States.