Rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court as They Affect the Powers and Authorities of the Indian Tribal Governments: Hearing Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session on Concerns of Recent Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Future of Indian Tribal Governments in America, February 27, 2002, Washington, DC.

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Page 45 - For purposes of this title, the term — ( 1 ) "Indian tribe" means any tribe, band, or other group of Indians subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and recognized as possessing powers of self-government; (2) "powers of self-government...
Page 51 - Conquest renders the tribe subject to the legislative power of the United States and, in substance, terminates the external powers of sovereignty of the tribe, eg, its power to enter into treaties with foreign nations, but does not by itself affect the internal sovereignty of the tribe, ie, its powers of local self-government.
Page 64 - Escondido Mutual Water Co. v. La Jolla Band of Mission Indians, 466 US 765...
Page 39 - Association, served as the Steering Committee for the project, establishing policy and directing the efforts of the staff. Arrow. Inc., a Washington.
Page 51 - ... (3) These powers are subject to qualification by treaties and by express legislation of Congress, but, save as thus expressly qualified, full powers of internal sovereignty are vested in the Indian tribes and in their duly constituted organs of government.
Page 43 - A tribe may also retain inherent power to exercise civil authority over the conduct of non-Indians on fee lands within its reservation when that conduct threatens or has some direct effect on the political Integrity, the economic security, or the health or welfare of the tribe.
Page 65 - National Farmers Union Ins. Cos. v. Crow Tribe of Indians, 471 US 845...
Page 51 - The whole course of judicial decision on the nature of Indian tribal powers is marked by adherence to three fundamental principles: (1) An Indian tribe possesses, in the first instance, all the powers of any sovereign state. (2) Conquest renders the tribe subject to...
Page 48 - But exercise of tribal power beyond what is necessary to protect tribal self-government or to control internal relations is inconsistent with the dependent status of the tribes, and so cannot survive without express congressional delegation.
Page 41 - Essentially, absent governing Acts of Congress, the question has always been whether the state action infringed on the right of reservation Indians to make their own laws and be ruled by them.

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