Exclusion of Non-Dine off reservation lands

There has been a lot of talk about border walls and illegal immigration.  Similarly, our Dine Nation has a law under Title 13 that allows for exclusion of non-Dine for illegal activities.  There must be an exclusion proceeding in the courts.  Reasons for exclusion include:

   a. Unauthorized prospecting, mining, collecting or gathering of or for oil, gas, coal, uranium and other minerals, water, petrified wood, antiquities or artifacts;  or

   b. Entry into any Navajo home without the consent of the occupants;  or

   c. Interference with or unauthorized photographing of any Navajo traditional ceremony or other religious ceremony;  or

   d. Unauthorized trading or peddling;  or

   e. Recruiting Navajo labor without permission of the Office of Navajo Labor Relations;  or

   f. Unauthorized entering of an area of the Navajo Nation closed to nonmembers;  or

   g. Removal from the Navajo Nation of any member of the Navajo Nation under the age of 18, or under guardianship, except by Order of the Courts of the Navajo Nation or in conjunction with a nonsectarian program administered by the Navajo Nation or the Bureau of Indian Affairs;  or

   h. Unauthorized timber cutting or plant gathering;  or

   i. Unauthorized surveying;  or

   j. Damaging property of any resident of the Navajo Nation or using such property without permission.


Imagine how different things would be if all Indian nations had this type of law back in the 14th century.  We might all be writing in Dine now.