Course Description
**For purpose of this course, it is important to understand and be able to articulate the importance of tribal sovereignty and the extent that sovereignty plays out the conclusion of issues surrounding Public Law 280. **Public Law 280, Act of August 15, 1953, was another piece of major legislation during the termination period of the 1950’s. This Act in particular adversely affected the sovereignty of California federally recognized tribes, in an attempt to limit tribal criminal and civil jurisdiction. However, California tribes still retain the ability to concurrently regulate trade and intercourse with tribal enterprises, contracts, torts occurring on tribal property, domestic relations of members, etc. ** This course has been designed by Montana & Associates to assist California tribes and other P.L. 280 tribal governments in their quest to further the extent of their sovereignty and regulatory authority over issues of vital concern to the next generation of their membership.