The Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation is the highest judicial Native American authority of the Navajo Nation, the largest American Indian nation in the United States. According to Harvard Law School,
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 14, 2011. Pictured are former Chief Justice Herb Yazzie (center), Justice Eleanor Shirley (left), and Justice Wilson Yellowhair (right, sitting by special designation).
Tribal sovereignty in the United States is the concept of the inherent authority of Indigenous tribes to govern themselves within the borders of the United States.
Hassanamisco Nipmuc Indian Reservation sign
Treaty of Penn with Indians by Benjamin West