Title: Indian Civil Rights Act Resources on the Tribal Court Clearinghouse
Headings: 
Indian Civil Rights Act
What is the Indian Civil Rights Act?
Enforcement of ICRA
Books & Articles
Reports
Blogs & Other Resources

Content: It did this by implicitly recognizing the importance of tribal governments on reservations, reaffirming the idea of sovereign immunity as applied to Indian tribes, and giving tribal institutions the principal responsibility for resolving disputes over civil rights. In Martinez, the Supreme Court interpreted ICRA as not giving the federal court any power to review any complaints of ICRA violations by a tribal government except those arising as writ of habeas corpus actions—complaints of unlawful detention raised by individuals being held in tribal custody. The decision held that violations of all the other rights guaranteed under the ICRA, including equal protection rights, fell under tribal jurisdiction, and thus could only be brought in tribal court. Ruth Swentzell, Testimony of a Santa Clara Woman, 14 Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy 97 (2004): A mother from Santa Clara Pueblo responds to the 1978 decision. Books & Articles
Carpenter, Kristen A., Matthew L. M. Fletcher, and Angela R. Riley. 2012. The Indian Civil Rights Act at Forty. Los Angeles, Calif: UCLA American Indian Studies Center.