Navajo Justice Department defends against bordering jurisdictions from infringing on Navajo sovereignty

This is something pretty interesting.  The Navajo Department of Justice filed a friends brief in an off reservation attorney malpractice  case involving a White attorney’s practice of law within the Navajo reservation. (Sam vs. Ledbetter Firm)  The tribe is saying that the outside jurisdiction is meddling with tribal reservation affairs so that there’s an infringement on Navajo Nation sovereignty.  The Navajo has its own tribal bar association and courts to regulate the practice of law within the reservation.  White people cannot just go to state courts to avoid the tribal courts.  If the state courts decide that the case can avoid tribal jurisdiction, then this case may be filed in federal court.  Alternatively, the tribe may consider excluding non-Navajo attorneys from the tribal bar association.  Can they do this?  There would be all sorts of civil rights claims like it was the 4th of July. Pretty interesting case, how our tribal lawyers are defending our tribal sovereignty!  Way to go DOJ!  We need to be vocal and defensive about protecting our tribe from outsiders encroaching.  I wish we could be the same way about some of our own people who attack our nation from within.