United States: Determinants Of Successful American Indian Resistance To The Establishment Of ...

United States: Determinants Of Successful American Indian Resistance To The Establishment Of State Government Jurisdiction Under Public Law 280: A Comparative Case Study Of The Processes Of Exemption And Retrocession Shane Day, and Sarabeth Anderson, 2011   Public Law 280 is a federal law passed in 1953 that grants state governments criminal and some civil jurisdiction over American Indian reservations. In doing so, PL 280 violated the nation-to-nation relationship between Indian tribes and...

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