tribal laws
Indigenous community regulations
Tribal laws are the legal codes and systems governing Indigenous nations and tribes, operating alongside or sometimes in tension with federal and state law.
In the United States, federally recognized tribes maintain sovereign authority over their territories, with tribal courts adjudicating matters from family law to criminal cases: Tribal law governs hunting rights on the reservation.
The term also refers more broadly to traditional customs and rules within any tribal society.
- elder councilGoverning body of seniors
- eldersSenior community members
- chiefdomPolitical unit under chief
- sacred sitesReligiously significant locations
- sacred objectsItems of spiritual importance
spirit world · indigenous tribes · oral traditions · banishment · blood feud · restorative justice · peacekeeping · peace pipe · arbitration · consensus-building · treaty rights · council · mediation · territorial boundaries · hunting grounds · clans · coming of age · naming ceremony
- Clan & Kinshipkinship, lineage, ancestry, bloodlines, blood ties
- Islamic Lawsharia, Sharia, Shariah, fatwa, fatwas
- Germanic TribesGermanic tribes, Burgundians, Franks, Goths, Bavarians
- Roman LawCorpus Juris Civilis, Justinian Code, Twelve Tables, Digest, Paul
- Cordillera peoplesmountain tribes, rice terraces, peace pacts
- language rightslanguage rights, minority languages, language laws, official languages, language maintenance
tribal lawsfederal statutes
Laws enacted by Congress
federal law · national law · state law · federal regulations · international law
tribal lawscommon law
Jurisprudence from judicial decisions
civil law · Roman law · statutory law · colonial law · written law