Richard Monette on Native sovereignty, owning land and law

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…

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…

Yale Law Journal – Navassa: Property, Sovereignty, and the Law of the Territories

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…