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Archive Home > 2012 > August > 14 > Tribes seek more jurisdictional power over non-Indians

Tribes seek more jurisdictional power over non-Indians

By Rob Hotakainen / The Bulletin
August 14, 2012

WASHINGTON — In 1973, the Suquamish Indian Tribe of Washington state accused a non-Indian man of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest, and ordered him to appear in tribal court. In 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the charges, saying the tribe had no authority to try....

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