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In Unanimous Ruling, SCOTUS Affirms Authority of Native American Tribal Governments and Police Forces Time 1 hr ago Madeleine Carlisle © Drew Angerer Getty Images A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 1, 2021 in Washington, DC.
In a broad ruling reaffirming the sovereignty of Native American tribes, the U.S. Supreme Court declared unanimously on Tuesday that tribal police officers have the power to temporarily detain and search non-Native Americans on tribal land if they’re suspected of violating state or federal law.
The case,
United States v. Cooley, involved a 2016 incident on the Crow Reservation in Montana where the defendant, Joshua James Cooley, was arrested after a Crow Police Department officer searched his vehicle and found weapons and methamphetamine.
People gather at the Big Horn County Courthouse to remember the hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous people. Billings Gazette
Several people wearing red gathered on the steps of the Big Horn County Courthouse on Wednesday, most of them carrying signs with the name of a young woman who had just turned 18 when she went missing.
The friends and family of Kaysera Stops Pretty Places remembered her as a tenacious person. She had enough ambition to fight past dyslexia and earn the grades needed to compete in cross country, wrestling and football as a Hardin Bulldog.
âShe was also very protective. She looked out for her friends who lived under less-than-great circumstances, and invited them in. I would have a lot of kids staying over. She did that with animals, too ⦠I think we had about 100 dogs one year,â said Yolanda Fraser, one of Stops Pretty Placesâ grandmothers who has stood in front of the county courthouse to ask for county officials to ac