Title: Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe - Wikipedia
Headings: Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
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Contents
Background
Procedural history
Ruling
Dissenting opinion
Effects
Evolution
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Content: Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, 435 U.S. 191 (1978), is a United States Supreme Court case deciding that Indian tribal courts have no criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians. The case was decided on March 6, 1978 with a 6–2 majority. The court opinion was written by William Rehnquist, and a dissenting opinion was written by Thurgood Marshall, who was joined by Chief Justice Warren Burger. Justice William J. Brennan did not participate in the decision. Congress partially abrogated the Supreme Court's decision by enacting the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, which recognizes the criminal jurisdiction of tribes over non-Indian perpetrators of domestic violence that occur in Indian Country when the victim is Indian. Contents
1 Background
2 Procedural history
3 Ruling
4 Dissenting opinion
5 Effects
6 Evolution
7 See also
8 References
9 Further reading
10 External links
Background
In August 1973 Mark David Oliphant, a non-Indian living as a permanent resident with the Suquamish Tribe on the Port Madison Indian Reservation in northwestern Washington, was arrested and charged by tribal police with assaulting a tribal officer and resisting arrest during the Suquamish Tribe's Chief Seattle Days. Knowing that thousands of people would gather in a small area for the celebration, the tribe requested Kitsap County and the Bureau of Indian Affairs for additional law enforcement assistance. The county sent just one deputy, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs sent no one. When Oliphant was arrested, at 4:30 a.m., only tribal officers were on duty. Oliphant applied for a writ of habeas corpus in federal court and claimed he was not subject to tribal authority because he was not Native American.