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Diane Joyce Humetewa (/ ˌhuːməˈteɪwə / HOO-mə-TAY-wə; [1] born December 5, 1964) [2][3] is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Humetewa is the first Native American woman and the first enrolled tribal member to serve as a U.S. federal judge. [4][5] She previously served as the ...
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.
Indian country jurisdiction, or the extent which tribal powers apply to legal situations in the United States, has undergone many drastic shifts since the beginning of European settlement in America. Over time, federal statutes and Supreme Court rulings have designated more or less power to tribal governments, depending on federal policy toward ...
New York University (JD) Keith Michael Harper (born 1965) is an American attorney and diplomat who was the first Native American to ever receive the rank of a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council. [1][2] He is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma [3] and as a lawyer he is known for working on behalf of Native ...
The Hopi Tribe's general counsel, Fred Lomayesva, declined to comment. ... The U.S. Supreme Court also ruled the government does not have a treaty duty to take affirmative steps to secure water ...
Hopi. A Hopi girl with a customary Hopi squash blossom hairstyle, woven wearing blanket, jewelry, and an olla. The Hopi are Native Americans who primarily live in northeastern Arizona. The majority are enrolled in the Hopi Tribe of Arizona[2] and live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona; however, some Hopi people are enrolled in the ...
25 U.S.C. §§ 450j – 450l. Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter, 567 U.S. 182 (2012), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the United States government, when it enters into a contract with a Native American Indian tribe for services, must pay contracts in full, even if Congress has not appropriated enough money to ...
Already, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the federal government is not bound by treaties with the Navajo Nation to secure water for the tribe. Navajo has the largest land base of any of the ...