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Tag: the Forgotten American

Posted inIndigenous, Justice, Social Justice

After decades, tribal courts, police slowly regaining lost authority

by Steve Crane May 8, 2018Nov 5, 2019

WASHINGTON – In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson wrote Congress detailing the nation’s maltreatment of Native Americans, a people he described as an “alien in his own land.” A month later, Congress made it official. One part of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 – signed by Johnson on April 11, 1968, just over a […]

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