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Native American Tribal Law:

The Navajo Nation as a Case
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with Troy Eid

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05 What is Federal Indian Law 43 How Navajo (Diné) Law

Treats Children
08 Navajo Nation at a Glance
43 Children are Sacred
15 Fort Sumner

17 Livestock Reduction

19 Case Study No. 1 - Oil and

Gas

23 Case Study No. 2 - Coal

29 Lawyers’ Duties to Learn

Native Culture and History

32 Navajo Fundamental Law

33 When Values Collide

37 Applying Fundamental Law

to Government
Contracting

38 What is ‘Navajo due

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