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Lawless Lands: The crisis in Indian Country - The Denver Post
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Lawless Lands
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Updated: November 21, 2007 4:00:44 PM MST
Part 1: Promises, justice broken
Here, as on the majority of the country's nearly 300 Indian reservations, the sole authority to prosecute felony crime lies with the federal government. 

Part 2: Justice: Inaction's fatal price
Zach Gervais and Arthur Schobey were killed by assailants who should have been in custody for crimes they committed on reservations months earlier.  

Part 3: Principles, politics collide
Some U.S. attorneys who emphasize fighting crime on Indian lands have seen themselves fall out of favor in D.C. 

Part 4: Path to justice unclear
On a bitter February morning four years ago, a well-armed federal SWAT team rolled across the cheat-grass prairie of Montana's Blackfeet reservation on a mission to re-establish order in a lawless land. 

1885 law at root of jurisdictional jumble
In the 18th and 19th centuries, tribal chiefs signed treaties giving away their rights over vast stretches of territory, and in turn the federal government took on specific obligations. 

Program born in Colo. becomes national model
Colorado U.S. Attorney Troy Eid likes to tell the story of how his father arrived in America from Egypt with $100 in his pocket. 

 

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