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20/11/2007 | Frente Externo
Promises, justice broken
A dysfunctional system lets serious reservation crimes go unpunished and puts Indians at risk.
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20/11/2007 | Frente Externo
1885 law at root of jurisdictional jumble
Much of the law that governs America's Indian lands starts with a trade-off.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, tribal chiefs signed treaties giving away their rights over vast stretches of territory, and in turn the federal government took on specific obligations. Much of Indian Country policy since has been an effort to resolve the inevitable tensions: the federal government as guardian of Indian interests versus the tribes' view of themselves as sovereign peoples.
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20/11/2007 | Frente Externo
Empower the tribes, or beef up the federal role? Each side has its own history of failure.
On a bitter February morning four years ago, a well-armed federal SWAT team rolled across the cheat-grass prairie of Montana's Blackfeet reservation on a mission to re-establish order in a lawless land.
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