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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.
The Supreme Court ruled in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta that state governments have the authority to prosecute certain cases on tribal lands, effectively undermining centuries of legal precedent.
The Oklahoma man at the center of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on tribal sovereignty has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors less than a week before he was to go to trial ...
As the Cherokee Nation’s attorney general from 2019 to August 2023, Hill advocated for stronger tribal sovereignty and oversaw a radical restructuring of the tribe’s criminal prosecution after ...
United States v. Lara, 541 U.S. 193 (2004), was a United States Supreme Court landmark case [1] which held that both the United States and a Native American (Indian) tribe could prosecute an Indian for the same acts that constituted crimes in both jurisdictions.
A recent example of this case being cited would be in the 2024 case of Lexington Ins. Co. v. Smith, where Lexington Insurance Company claimed that the Suquamish Tribe wasn't responsible for the insurance claim submitted by the tribe, and then was sued by the Tribal in tribal court. Lexington challenged the Tribe stating that the tribal court ...
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.
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