Indian reservation

Lakota: Skateboarding at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

JTo the outside world, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Lakota people, is known as one of the poorest regions in the United States. Historically, in 1890 it was the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre. In recent years, its population – as high as 40,000, by some estimates – […]

Indian reservation

Who is responsible when non-Indians settle on Indian reserve land?

Supreme Court justices on Wednesday questioned attorneys on whether tribal sovereignty over Indian reservations applied to non-Indian settlements in a case that could affect Indian reservation boundaries and tribal rights to jurisdiction over those settlements. lands. Nebraska v. Parker implicates an 1882 act of Congress that authorized the sale of a small portion of Omaha […]