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by David E. Wilkins


  Jerome Agreement (1892), 109, 111

  Jerome Commission. See Cherokee Commission

  Johnson, Benjamin, 40

  Johnson, Joshua, 28–30, 34

  Johnson v. McIntosh, 27–39, 56, 101, 149, 178, 183, 202, 298–301, 303

  Joint Tribal Council of the Passamaquoddy Tribe v. Morton, 216

  Jones v. Meehan, 86

  jurisdiction in Indian country

  —civil, of tribal governments, 166–167

  —criminal: ad personam, 292; of the federal government (1817), 205; in Indian-on-Indian crimes, 68–73, 306; of Indians over non-Indians, 189–215; inherent rights of Indian, 199; by non-Indians, 275–276; as provided in House Concurrent Resolution 108 (1953), 166; as provided in Public Law 280 (1953), 166; of states, Indian immunity from, 278, 291, 294, 304–305; of states versus federal government, 133; tribal autonomy in, 67–81; in white-on-white crimes, 38

  Just Compensation Clause. See Constitution, U.S.

  Kagama. See U.S. v. Kagama

  Kahnawake Mohawk, 20–21

  Kairys, David, 3–4, 298–303

  Kansas Indians, The, 57, 89, 104, 288, 306

  Karok tribe, 242–259

  Kennan, George, 105

  Kennedy, Justice Anthony, 189, 192–193

  Kennedy, Senator Edward M., 215, 274

  Ketchikan Pulp and Paper Company, 171–172

  Kiowa tribe, 105–117, 218

  Klamath Reservation, 283

  Klamath tribe, 137, 242–243, 259

  Kootenai tribe, 173

  Korematsu v. U. S., 145

  Krug, J. A., 169–170

  Lakota tribe, 198, 212, 218–234, 242–243

  Lamar, Justice Joseph, 290

  land policy, general, of Great Britain (1800s), 29

  lands, tribal, 139–143, 215–234; act of seeking permission to use, as acknowledgment of tribal sovereignty, 154, 161–162; as affected by Public Law 280 (1953), 166–167; centrality of, in Indian culture, 253–257; as distinguished from individual Indian property and U.S. public property, 91; not covered by treaties, 177, 230; patents and, 43, 129, 281–282, 286, 290; right-of-way through, 82, 90; taxation of without representation, 60; as unsuitable for Anglo-American settlement, 151

  last-in-time rule, 59

  Lea, Luke, 138

  Leavenworth Railway Company v. U.S., 7

  legal consciousness: civilizing/paternalistic, 11–14, 306; constitutional/treaty, 10–11, 226, 306; nationalist/federalist, 14–16, 64, 73, 76, 90, 210, 306

  Legal Theory, Critical, 6–10, 298–303, 320n.12

  Leupp, Francis, 24, 123

  Lewis and Clark expedition, 138

  liquor, sale of, to and by Indians, 59, 121, 123–126, 130, 133, 135–136

  Little Big Horn, battle of, 220–221

  Lone Wolf, 109, 112–113

  Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 105–117, 128, 133, 158, 183, 210, 218, 226, 228–229, 231, 299, 301–303

  Longley, Frank, 164

  Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, 237, 214–259, 261, 263–264, 266–267, 271–274, 301–302

  MacDonald, Norman, 145

  Mackey v. Coxe, 56

  Major Crimes Act (1885), 64, 69–71, 74, 79–80, 208

  Maliseet, Houlton band of, tribe, 216

  Malone, Philip P., 193, 196–197

  Manypenny, George, 68, 221

  Marbury v. Madison, 110

  Margold, Nathan, 199–201

  Marshall, Justice John, 21–22, 28–34, 42, 76–77, 86, 88, 116, 127, 149, 154, 160, 178, 214, 275, 288, 291, 300, 303

  Marshall, Justice Thurgood, 194, 198, 250; dissenting opinion by, in Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, 213, 261, 271, 277–278, 308

  Mashunkashey v. Mashunkashey, 27

  mask, judicial: of affirmative delegation, 198–204; of categorical allowances, 291–294; of Christian morality, 113–114; of county sovereignty, 291–294; of denied tribal sovereignty, 76–79; of domestic-dependent nation, 76, 210; of equal footing, 101–103; of implied repeals, 54, 291–294; of incidental effects, 257–258, 271; of Indian wardship, 67–81, 89, 121–123; of invented congressional intent, 204–208; of judicial plenary discretion, 79–81, 117, 208; linked with legal consciousness, 76; of neutrality, 265–270; of permissive occupancy, 176–180; of plenary dependency, 78, 85, 89, 112–117; of public ownership of public lands, 257–258; of recognized versus aboriginal title, 147–151; of selected and distorted comparison, 182; of treaty as privilege, 97–101; of tribes as primitive, savage cultures, 44, 111, 117, 151; of trusteeship, 257–258; of undefined treaty rights, 208–213; of unmistaken intent, 291–294

  masks, theory of, 8–16, 115, 117

  Matter of Heff, 122–127, 133, 135, 281, 295

  Matthews, Justice Stanley, opinion by, in Ex parte Crow Dog, 212, 307

  Mattz v. Arnett, 285

  McCain, John (senator), 236

  McClanahan v. Arizona State Tax Commission, 192, 199, 210, 276–277, 285, 291

  McCormick, Province, 94–96

  McCulloch v. Maryland, 288

  McDonald, Judge Allan, 285–287

  McIntosh, William, 28–29

  McKinley, President, 109

  Medill, William, 51

  Meeds, Lloyd (Rep.), 188–189

  Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe, 307–308

  Meyer, Dillon S., 166

  Miami tribe, 288

  Miller, Justice Samuel, majority opinion by, in U.S. v. Kagama, 71–81, 104

  Missouria tribe, 209

  Mitchell, D. D., 138

  Mitchel v. U.S., 28, 35, 44, 57, 110, 161

  Modoc tribe, 137

  Moe v. Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation, 285–286, 292

  Mohawk, St. Regis, tribe, 216

  monetary awards to tribes, 132, 144, 147, 158–159, 163, 167, 171, 183, 216–217, 224–225, 233–234, 280

  Montana v. Blackfeet Tribe, 278, 285

  Moore, Barrington, 13

  moral obligation, U.S., toward tribes, 158

  Morton v. Mancari, 22

  Mundt, Cong. Karl E., 163–164

  Murphy, Justice Frank, 146; dissenting opinion by, in Northwestern Shoshone, 162–163

  myth of moral progress, 118, 158

  Narragansett tribe, 216

  National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), 165

  National Environmental Policy Act, 248

  nationalist/federalist. See legal consciousness, nationalist/federalist

  Native American Church, 237, 259–262, 265, 268

  Native American Church v. Navajo Tribal Council, 240

  Navajo tribe, 153, 198, 242–243, 276–277

  Newton, Nell J., 184–185

  Nez Perce tribe, 173

  Nice. See U.S. v. Nice

  Nice, Fred, 123–124, 127

  Nicholson, Jacob, 39

  Nixon, President Richard M., 187, 237, 292

  nomads, Indians as, with diminished land rights, 148, 150, 153

  Noonan, John T., Jr., 6, 8–10

  Norgren, Jill, 146, 303–306

  Northwestern Bands of Shoshone Indians v. U.S., 136–165, 215, 298, 301–302

  Northwest Ordinance (1787), 23, 44, 178, 192, 235, 309

  O’Connor, Justice Sandra Day, 249, 302, 304; dissenting opinion by, in Employment Division, Department of Human Resources v. Smith, 264, 266–271; majority opinion by, in Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, 250–258

  Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Chickasaw Nation, 304

  Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Sac and Fox Nation, 304

  Oliphant, Mark D., 190

  Oliphant v. Schlie, 189

  Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, 187–215, 231, 299, 301, 303

  Omaha tribe, 209

  Omnibus Railroad Act (1899), 82

  Oneida tribe, 216

  Otoe and Missouria Tribe of Indians v. U.S., 185

  Otoe tribe, 209

  Parker, Isaac C., “hanging judge,
” 85, 204, 333n.79

  Parks, George, 49

  Parks, Samuel, 49

  Parks v. Ross, 49–50

  Passamaquoddy tribe, 216

  Peace Policy, Grant’s, 52, 239

  Peacock, James C., 171–172

  Penobscot tribe, 216

  People v. Woody, 271

  permissive occupancy, 44

  per se rule, 278

  peyote, religious use of, 237, 259–271

  Piankeshaw tribe, 28–29

  plenary power of Congress: doctrine of, 23–24, 72, 125, 299, 303–304, 309, 325n.15, 326n.35; over Indians, 25–27, 44–46, 57, 67–81, 112, 114–229, 278; as not only unlimited but unreviewable, 115; versus eminent domain, 226

  Plessy v. Ferguson, 198

  Pokatello, 141, 161

  political question doctrine, 38–48, 77, 112, 117, 183, 229–231, 299, 302, 304

  Polk, James K., 37

  Port Madison Reservation, 189–190, 206

  preemption doctrine, 277–279

  Property Clause of the U.S. Constitution. See Constitution, U.S.

  Prucha, Francis P., 68, 239

  public forum doctrine, 299–300

  Public Law 100–67, 235

  Pueblo tribes, 182

  purpose doctrine, 299

  Quapaw tribe, 241

  Race Horse, John, 95–96

  railroads, 52, 81–91

  Reagan, President Ronald, 237

  Reed, Justice Stanley: majority opinion by, in Northwestern Shoshone, 146–156; majority opinion by, in Tee-Hit-Ton v. U.S., 174–184

  Rehnquist, Justice William H., 46, 194, 250, 263, 285, 298, 300; dissenting opinion by, in U.S. v. Sioux Nation of Indians, 231–233, 278; majority opinion by, in Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, 197–213, 230

  religion clauses. See Constitution, U.S.

  religious freedom of American Indians: chart of federal court activity pertaining to, by case and tribe, 242–243; protection of, 237–274, 357n.91; as subject to the political process, 270

  Religious Freedom Reformation Act (1993), 273–275

  reservations, Alaskan, indigenous groups misled to reject, 169

  reserved rights doctrine, 97, 101, 177, 192, 307, 341n.107

  res judicata, defense of, 224–226, 233

  restraint, principle of judicial, 249

  Revenue Act (1868), 57

  Reynolds v. U.S., 265, 267

  rights of Indians, 126–127, 131, 184, 290; those of American citizens living within the jurisdiction of tribal governments vis-à-vis those of non-Indian citizens, 211; citizens versus subjects, 240; compared to those of inmates in federal institutions, 124; to compensation, versus land recovery, 174, 215–234; to due process, 110; hunting and fishing, 92–104, 178, 280, 305, 307; internal tribal issues and, 128, 348n.58; not subject to Fourteenth Amendment, 120; property, versus civil or political, 123; social, versus civil and political, 122; specific legal, versus statutory law, 61; temporary nature of, 101, 147–148, 171; tribal treaty, 60, 81–90, 97, 100–101, 134, 177, 203; tribes’ impaired, to soil and sovereignty, 32; tribes’ undefined treaty, 208–213. See also aboriginal title; jurisdiction, civil; jurisdiction, criminal

  Riner, District Judge, opinion by, preceding Ward v. Race Horse, 95–96, 102

  Roberts, Justice Owen, 146

  Rogers, William S., 39–42, 47–49

  Roosevelt, Franklin, 145–146

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 124

  Rosebud Allotment Act (1889), 129–130, 135

  Rosebud Reservation, 283

  Ross, John, Cherokee principal chief, 37–38, 49

  Rutledge, Justice Wiley, 146

  Sacajawea, 138

  Sanborn, Walter H., 121–122

  Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez, 214–215

  Scalia, Justice Antonin, 259, 301; in Employment Division, Department of Human Resources v. Smith, 263–270; majority opinion by, in County of Yakima v. Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation, 288–294

  Schaghticoke tribe, 216

  self-determination policy, Indian, 187, 239, 292

  Sells, Cato, 135, 282

  Seminole tribe, 13

  Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida, 305

  separation of powers doctrine, 226

  Shattuck, Petra, 146, 303–306

  Shawnee tribe, 288

  Sherbert v. Verner, 250, 261, 263, 265–266, 273

  Sheridan, P. H., 219–220

  Sherman, W. T., 219–220

  Shoshone Indians v. U.S., 155

  Shoshone tribe, 91–104, 137–165, 173

  Shoshone Tribe of Indians v. U.S., 147, 155, 226

  Sioux Nation. See U.S. v. Sioux Nation of Indians

  Sioux tribe, 121, 123–124, 137–139, 218–234

  Sioux Tribe of Indians v. U.S., 223

  Sitting Bull, Chief, 220

  Six Rivers National Forest, Blue Creek Unit, 246–259

  Smith, Alfred, 259–264, 301

  Sobeloff, Simon E., 173

  social motivations for Indian policy, 140, 170, 180–182

  Souter, Justice David, 305–306

  South Dakota v. Bourland, 305

  Southern Kansas Railway Company, 81–91

  sovereign immunity doctrine, 136

  sovereignty, national, vis-à-vis state sovereignty, 88, 275, 277–279, 306–307

  Special Committee on Investigations (1987), 236

  Springer, William, 109–110, 112

  Standing Bear v. Crook, 19

  Stevens, Justice John Paul, 250, 279, 305–306

  Stewart, Justice Potter, 214

  Stewart, Richard P., 124

  strict scrutiny test, 268, 271

  Supremacy Clause. See Constitution, U.S.

  Supreme Court, U.S. See Court, U.S. Supreme

  Suquamish tribe, 189–215

  Swayne, Justice Noah, majority opinion by, in The Cherokee Tobacco, 54–60

  Talton v. Mayes, 11, 199, 307

  Taney, Justice Roger, 36, 38, 57, 182; majority opinion by, in U.S. v. Rogers, 40–49, 57, 300

  taxation of Indians, 55–63, 128; of activities of non-Indians on Indian land, 307–308; ad valorem and excise, 284–296; as destructive of Indian culture, 288

  Tee-Hit-Ton band, 166–185

  Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. U.S., 166–185, 229, 299, 301

  termination policy, 134, 166–167, 183; unilateral, of treaties per HCR 108, 237

  test case, Ward v. Race Horse, 94–96

  Thomas, Justice Clarence, 305

  Thomas v. Review Board, Indiana Employment Security division, 261

  Thompson, Justice Smith, dissenting opinion by, in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 22

  Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold Reservation v. U.S., 227

  Tillamooks. See U.S. v. Alcea Band of Tillamooks

  title, land: burden of proof on Shoshone, 153; dichotomization of Indian, as aboriginal versus recognized, 148; fee-simple, 44, 66, 81, 87–90, 113, 203; “mere Indian” as subordinate to U.S., 145

  Tlingit peoples, 168, 182

  Tohono O’odham tribe, 174, 198

  Tolowa tribe, 242–259

  Tongass Act (1947), 171, 175

  Tongass National Forest, 169–172

  Trade and Intercourse Act. See Indian Trade and Intercourse Act

  treaties, Indian, 48, 55, 89, 92–117, 127, 138–143, 150, 153–155, 158–159, 162, 166–167, 190, 192, 203, 208–209, 220–222, 280–283; “sell or starve” rider, 221

  Treaty Clause of U.S. Constitution. See Constitution, U.S.

  treaty process, 28, 52, 56, 59, 69, 330n.139; basic definitions of, 150, 160; between stronger and weaker powers, 160; conducted on nation-to-nation basis, 134, 147; inherent powers in, 200; mutual limitation of powers in, 200

  treaty rights, line of, 226–227

  treaty termination law (1871), 55–56, 70, 114

  tribal identity, need for Indians to give up in exchange for other rights, 136

  tribal law, 61, 67, 80, 83, 190,
205, 212

  tribal nations: characteristics of, 19, 27; extraconstitutional status of, 4, 21–25, 320n.10

  Tribal Self-Governance Demonstration Project (1988), 235

  tribal sovereignty: denied by Supreme Court, 58; as deriving from original independence, 288, 307–308; dissent in cases involving, 7; doctrine of, 88, 189, 290; as gradually eclipsed by state sovereignty, 291; as limited, 195; mangled in Lone Wolf, 116; manifestations of, 20–21; vis-à-vis state laws, 276–279

  tribal weaknesses, as owing to government activities, 78

  Truman, Harry S., 171, 178

  trust doctrine, domestic and international, 268, 304

  trusteeship, theory of, 334n.106

  trust relationship, federal government vis-à-vis tribes, 227, 248, 286–287

  Turner, Frederick J., 51

  Udall, Senator Morris, 240

  Umatilla tribe, 12, 282

  United States Congress. See Congress, U.S.

  United States Department of Justice. See Department of Justice, U.S.

  United States Forest Service. See Forest Service, U.S.

  United States government: alliances among branches of, 236; covert and collusive decision of branches of, to violate Lakota treaty, 219–220; incursions by, onto Shoshone lands (1863–1927), 143; as making poor use of land appropriated from Indians, 165; responsible for Bear Lake massacre, 141; title of only as valid as the one it usurped, 149; unilateral illegal taking of Indian lands by, 110, 221

  United States Supreme Court. See Court, U.S. Supreme

  U.S. v. Alcea Band of Tillamooks, 179

  U.S. v. Bailey, 74–76, 79, 275

  U.S. v. Berry, 102–103

  U.S. v. Board of Commissioners, 155

  U.S. v. Clapox, 12

  U.S. v. Kagama, 45, 67–81, 85, 89, 114, 116, 125, 210, 298–302

  U.S. v. Lee, 266

  U.S. v. Mazurie, 196, 285

  U.S. v. McBratney, 275

  U.S. v. Nice, 24–25, 118–136, 281, 295, 298–299, 301–303

  U.S. v. Pelican, 125

  U.S. v. Quiver, 128

  U.S. v. Rickert, 128

  U.S. v. Rogers, 35–36, 38–51, 56, 71, 77, 85, 182, 211, 298–301, 303

  U.S. v. Shoshone Tribe, 155

  U.S. v. Sioux Nation of Indians, 11, 215–234, 298–299

  U.S. v. Ward, 275

  U.S. v. Wheeler, 214

  U.S. v. Winans, 104, 147, 307, 341n.107

  Ute tribe, 102

  Van Devanter, Justice Willis, 25, 95–96, 111, 113, 121, 127–129, 132–134; majority opinion by, in U.S. v. Nice, 129–136

  Vinson, Justice Frederick, 179

  Waite, Justice Morrison, 265

  Wampanoag tribe, 216

  wardship, the notion of Indian, 15, 77–78, 80, 90, 109–111, 113, 116–117, 120–127, 131, 135–136

 

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