Title: Treaty rights - Wikipedia
Headings: Treaty rights
Treaty rights
Contents
Historical background and legal theory
Continuation to present
Treaty Rights in the United States
Ex Parte Crow Dog
Williams v. Lee
Olyphant v. Suquamish
Treaty Rights in Canada
Treaties within Canada
Historic Treaties
Modern Treaties
Section 35
Significant Court Cases
R v. Sparrow
R. v. Van der Peet
R. v. Powley
Violations of Treaty Rights
Spearfishing in Northern Wisconsin
Whaling in Washington
Annexation of Hawaii
Dakota Access Pipeline
References
Notes
Works cited

Content: The reservation police turned him over to the army, who tried him in Dakota Territorial Court. The court sentenced him to death for the murder. Crow Dog appealed the case up to the Supreme Court of the United States. He argued that because he committed the crime on a reservation, and his family had made amends for his crime in accordance with tribal law and custom, the United States had no right to try him. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Crow Dog, stating that the district court could not impose a punishment on a Native American for a crime committed on a reservation against another Native American. Williams v. Lee
As Native Americans became more integrated into American culture, more non-Native Americans began working and living on the reservations. This gave rise to the question of whether or not tribes had the legal authority over non-Native Americans who commit crimes on their land. In 1959, a case surrounding the rights of a tribe to regulate the civil activities within their reservation went to the Supreme Court. In Williams v. Lee, a non-Native American merchant, who owned a general store on a reservation, sued some of his Native American customers in Arizona State Courts. The Supreme Court ruled that the Arizona court system did not have legal authority over reservations.