He is well known for his work on tribal rights and primary health care.
The old view was that the extinguishment of aboriginal title extinguished all tribal rights to the same land.
In effect, they are threatening to use the modern legal system to demand their traditional tribal rights.
He offers no compelling reason to curtail sovereign immunity or tribal rights.
Black tribal rights were also upheld last year in the Cherokee tribe's own supreme court.
To understand the issues of gaming regulatory power and sovereignty, both state and tribal rights must be considered.
This resulted in native leaders demanding that tribal rights and cultures should be protected.
What are the limits of tribal rights, and how does a tribe get them?
In any case, the tribe has a right to intervene in the proceeding and to act to protect the tribal rights of the child.
"It's amazing how many people are claiming tribal rights all of a sudden," he said.