In 1988 Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA).1 The states, disappointed with certain aspects of the IGRA legislation, launched a war against Indian tribes to stop them from conducting the gaming which Congress had determined was a vital source of economic development for tribes and a proper exercise of tribal sovereignty. In 1994…
After being suppressed under discriminatory regimes of state and federal fish and game management for much of this century, Indian tribes and their members successfully began to assert their reserved rights to hunt, fish, trap, and gather on lands and waters off their reservations in the 1960s and 1970s. Many tribes, particularly in the Pacific…
