NATAMST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Crow Dog, Indian Civil Rights Act Of 1968, American Indian Religious Freedom Act

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Native American Studies
• Course: NATAMST 100
• Professor: Joseph Myers

Document Summary

U. s. supreme court cases will be in united states reports (u. s. ), west"s. Supreme court reports (s. ct. ) & michie"s lawyer"s edition (l. Being quoted or issue being referred to> Clark v. community for creative non-violence , 468 u. s. 288. Bank v. vinson , 477 u. s. 57,60 (1986). (1984). It is the right of an entity to make its own laws & to be governed by them. It"s important to know the difference between sovereignty & sovereign immunity. Sovereign immunity is the right to be free from suit; the right not be sued in court. Sovereign cannot be sued because the sovereign"s assets are the assets of the community as a whole. Sovereignty refers to the supreme power by which an independent state or nation is governed, i. e. the power to make laws & be governed by them, collect taxes, wage war, form treaties, etc.