The Biggest Native American Law Rulings Of 2016

By Andrew Westney (December 19, 2016, 3:46 PM EST) -- The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's lawsuit and protests over the Dakota Access pipeline dominated headlines in the latter half of 2016, but a D.C. Circuit ruling on the government's land-into-trust process and U.S. Supreme Court decisions on tribal court authority, taxation and the use of tribal convictions in federal domestic violence prosecutions also made major marks this year....

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