The Senate Indian Affairs Committee heard powerful testimony from Indian women last week on the pervasive problem of violence against women. Riyaz Kanji of Ann Arbor’s Kanji & Katzen testified that Congress has authority to extend criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians to Indian tribes, if it chooses.
The Amnesty Report that helped to jump start this issue in Congress is here.
Sarah Deer’s recent editorial in Indian Country Today on the topic is here. And some of her related material is here, an article in the Suffolk Law Review.
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October 18, 2007 at 1:25 am
[...] jurisdiction over non-Indian domestic violence and sexual assault perpetrators — that we blogged about earlier — is now complete with the final version of Riyaz Kanji’s testimony on Congressional [...]
May 6, 2008 at 12:09 pm
[...] the problem of violence against women in Indian Country, with the Amnesty Report (available here) as a jumping off [...]