Faculty Scholarship

The Conflict Between the “Public Trust” and the “Indian Trust” Doctrines:  Federal Public Land Policy and Native Nations, 39 Tulsa L. Rev. 271 (2003).

The Challenge of “Differentiated Citizenship":  Can State Constitutions Protect Tribal Rights?, 64 Mont. L. Rev. 199 (2003).

Tribalism, Constitutionalism, and Cultural Pluralism:  Where do Indigenous Peoples Fit Within Civil Society?, 5 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 357 (2003).

Introduction:  Symposium on Cultural Sovereignty, 34 Ariz. St. L.J. 1 (2002).

Reclaiming Native Stories:  An Essay on Cultural Appropriation and Cultural Rights, 34 Ariz. St. L.J. 299 (2002).

Tribal Membership and ‘Indian Status’:  The Post-Martinez World in Federal Indian Law, in Native Americas, Spring/Summer 2002, at 19.

Indigenous Groups and American Democracy:  Substantive Approaches to Cultural Pluralism, in Groups and Group Rights 215 (Christine Sistare, Larry May, & Leslie Francis eds., 2001).

Land, Culture and Community:  Envisioning Native American Sovereignty and National Identity in the 21st Century, 2 HAGAR:  Int’l Soc. Sci. Rev. 183 (2001).

Contaminated Collections:  An Overview of the Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues, 17 Collection Forum, April 2001, at 14.

Land Culture, and Community:  Reflections on Native Sovereignty and Property in America, 34 Ind. L. Rev. 1291 (2001).

Rethinking the Tribal Sovereignty Doctrine:  Cultural Sovereignty and the Collective Future of Indian Nations, 12 Stan. L. & Pol’y Rev. 191 (2001) (co-author, with Wallace Coffey).

Marginalization and Political Identity:  The Experience of Native Americans, in Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture 138 (Yolanda Estes et al. eds., 2000).

Sacred Obligations:  Intercultural Justice and the Discourse of Treaty Rights, 47 UCLA L. Rev. 1615 (2000), reprinted in Indigenous Rights 363 (Anthony J. Connolly ed., 2009).

Privileging Claims to the Past:  Ancient Human Remains and Contemporary Cultural Values, 31 Ariz. St. L. J. 583 (1999).

Indigenous Rights and Archaeology, in Native Americans and Archaeologists:  Stepping Stones to Common Ground 64 (Nina Swidler et al. eds., 1997).

American Indians and the Politics of Recognition:  Soifer on Law, Pluralism, and Group Identity, 22 Law & Soc. Inquiry 359 (1997).

Indigenous Peoples' Claims to Cultural Property:  A Legal Perspective, 21 Museum Anthropology, Winter 1997, at 5.

Negotiating Economic Survival:  The Consent Principle and Tribal State-Compacts Under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, 29 Ariz. St. L. J. 25 (1997).

Tribal Environmental Policy in an Era of Self-Determination:  The Role of Ethics, Economics, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge, 21 Vt. L. Rev. 225 (1996).

Treating Indian Tribes as States under the Clean Water Act:  The Good and the Bad, 71 N.D. L. Rev. 497 (1995) (comments beginning at page 505).

Separate Sovereigns, Civil Rights, and the Sacred Text:  The Legacy of Justice Thurgood Marshall's Indian Law Jurisprudence, 26 Ariz. St. L. J. 495 (1994).

Economic Development on the Reservation:  A Survey of Relevant Environmental Considerations, 29 Ariz. Att’y, July 1993, at 27.

Changing Women:  The Crosscurrents of American Indian Feminine Identity, 12 Am. Indian Culture & Res. J. 1 (1988), reprinted in Vicki L. Ruiz & Ellen Carol DuBois eds., Unequal Sisters:  A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History 508 (2d ed. 1994).

Surviving the War by Singing the Blues:  The Contemporary Ethos of American Indian Political Poetry, 10 Am. Indian Culture & Res. J., no. 3, 1986, at 25, reprinted in Gathering Native Scholars:  UCLA'S Forty Years of American Indian Culture and Research ___ (2009).

Book Review, 4 Am. Indian Culture & Res. J., no. 4, 1980, at 140 (reviewing Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977)).