FREDERICA FREYBERG:Why are there so many non-tribal homeowners on the Lac du Flambeau reservation? Part of the answer goes back more than a century when in 1887, the federal Dawes General Allotment Act carved up Indigenous land for individual ownership. Marisa Wojcik speaks with Richard Monette, a UW-Madison professor of law and director of the…
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/adn/EOOB6KTPW5DOPA5COMDMGG4GDA.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Experts say 2 lawsuits pose greatest threat to tribal sovereignty in decades")
The Shoalwater Bay Casino in Tokeland, Washington, on Dec. 6, 2022. (Karina Brown / Underscore News) Editor’s note: This story was produced through a collaboration between The Oregonian/OregonLive and Underscore News. The Data-Driven Reporting Project supported Underscore’s work on this story. A lawsuit in Washington state and another case before the U.S. Supreme Court are…
abstract. The United States acquired its first overseas territory—Navassa Island, near Haiti—by conceptualizing it as a kind of property to be owned, rather than a piece of sovereign territory to be governed. The story of Navassa shows how competing conceptions of property and sovereignty are an important and underappreciated part of the law of the…