Navajo Statehood: From Domestic Dependent Nation to 51st State
| dc.contributor.author | Mullenix, Philip S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rosser, Ezra | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-16T19:49:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-16T19:49:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-03-01 | |
| dc.description | 52 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The inability or unwillingness of the U.S. Supreme Court, and to some extent all other non-Indian governance institutions at the state and federal level, to take tribal sovereignty seriously forces a question: Should the Navajo Nation pursue statehood? Such a question may seem far-fetched or merely an academic thought experiment, but there is historical precedent for contemplating the idea that an Indian nation might form a state. Moreover, journalists, academics, and politicians have floated the possibility that the Navajo Nation already meets many of the attributes required to form a new state. So, although the idea of the Navajo Nation becoming the fifty-first state of the Union seems far fetched, considering the possibility provides a way to better understand both statehood and the hard choices Indian nations must make. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | 101 Or. L. Rev. 307 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0196-2043 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/29462 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon School of Law | en_US |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Federal Indian Law | en_US |
| dc.subject | Constitutional law | en_US |
| dc.subject | Statehood | en_US |
| dc.subject | Navajo Nation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tribal sovereignty | en_US |
| dc.title | Navajo Statehood: From Domestic Dependent Nation to 51st State | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |