Anchorage-based lawyer Lloyd Miller says last week's Supreme Court decision won’t have much impact in Alaska, but it still marks a major change that turns long-held principles of Indian law upside down.
Going against decades of precedent in law on Native American sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesdayin an Oklahoma case that states can prosecute non-Native people for crimes against Native people that occur on tribal land.
Alaska, like some 20 other states, already has federal approval from Congress granting such authority, so the decision itself won’t have much impact in Alaska, says Lloyd Miller, an Anchorage-based lawyer and Indian law specialist with Sonosky Chambers. But Miller says the decision still marks a major change that turns long-held principles of Indian law upside down.Two of Lloyd Miller’s law partners wrote an amicus brief cited in the dissenting opinion in Wednesday’s decision.: So I think it’s a real watershed decision in this area of Indian law. And I think there could be grave implications for Indian law in the years to come.
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