Going against decades of precedent, the Supreme Court ruled last week that states can prosecute non-Native people for crimes against Native people that occur on tribal land. Casey Grove spoke to an Indian law specialist about what that means for Alaska.
Going against decades of precedent in law on Native American sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court last weekin an Oklahoma case that states can prosecute non-Native people for crimes against Native people that occur on tribal land.
Alaska, like some 20 other states, already has federal approval from Congress granting such authority, so the decision itself won’t have much impact in Alaska, says Lloyd Miller, an Anchorage-based lawyer and Indian law specialist with Sonosky Chambers. But Miller says the decision still marks a major change that turns long-held principles of Indian law upside down.Two of Lloyd Miller’s law partners wrote an amicus brief cited in the dissenting opinion in Wednesday’s decision.: So I think it’s a real watershed decision in this area of Indian law.
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