[news] Tribes gain right to prosecute nonmembers

[Resist!ca]

By Bill Donovan - Navajo Times, 4/18/04 In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court 
Monday upheld the right of the federal government to prosecute cases on Indian 
reservations even after a tribal court conviction. In the decision, the court 
also ruled - and this what attracted the interest of the Navajo Nation 
Department of Justice - that Congress extended tribes' sovereignty in 1991 to 
include the ability to prosecute nonmember Indians for acts committed on the 
tribe's reservation.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/4/24/173024/999