Tag: tribal land

Tribe’s Land Cut Between US and Mexico Amid Border Crisis

The Pascua Yaqui Tribe is caught between the U.S. and Mexican border, as their land stretches beyond the border wall in Arizona. Raymond V. Buelna, a cultural leader for the tribe, has been separated from tribal members who are stuck living on the Mexican border side after being detained by border patrol agents. It was…


Oklahoma AG Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Ruling on Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction

Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor has petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn—or at least narrow the scope of—a landmark 2020 ruling on tribal sovereignty that he said was inadvertently leading to a “criminal-justice crisis” and putting the public in danger. O’Connor, a Republican, said in a Friday filing (pdf) that that the Supreme Court’s 5–4 ruling in…