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Fort Belknap President Jeffrey Stiffarm called the ruling “another attempt to dilute the sovereignty of Indian nations,” and a “slap in the face.”
“The Supreme Court’s decision today is an attack on tribal sovereignty and the hard-fought progress of our ancestors to exercise our inherent sovereignty over our own territories,” said National Congress of American Indians President Fawn Sharp.
‘We would have no problem if we had…just tribal governments’
Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby has been named among nine people to be inducted this year into the National Native American Hall of Fame.
Justice Sunshine Suzanne Sykes is only the seventh Indigenous federal judge ever seated