|
Within the United States, Indian tribes, pueblos, and nations are domestic sovereigns. There are more than 500 federally recognized American Indian tribes that are domestic sovereigns.
Under the United States Constitution, their rights to self-rule include most economic and employment activity of the tribes, including on-reservation activities of non-Indians and off-reservation activities of tribal enterprises. Where conflicts arise, various federal laws and US Supreme Court decisions balance these rights against those of states where the domestic sovereigns are located.
Federal law says that state workers compensation laws apply to injuries occurring with Indian lands. However, these laws also allow an exemption for those who voluntarily agree to submit to tribal law. Today, most non-Indian employees of tribal enterprises, such as those employed by Indian gaming establishments, have agreed to handle their workers compensation claims inside the tribal courts.
While various laws attempt to create Indian systems that provide WC benefits equivalent to those of state systems, significant differences remain, and the sovereignty of the tribal courts results, in many cases, in a distinctly separate WC system for each tribe. One key difference occurs when some domestic sovereigns do not recognize WC benefits as the exclusive remedy of the worker against the employer.
Alliant Insurance Services - Tribal First program
AMERIND Risk Management Corporation
Brown & Brown Tribal Workers Compensation Insurance Programs
Bureau of Indian Affairs, US Department of Interior
Chickasaw Nation, The, workers compensation statutes
Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians workers compensation statutes
Conover Insurance
First Americans Insurance Service
Hoopa Valley Indian Tribe workers compensation statutes
IAIABC Task Force on Tribal Sovereignty and Workers’ Compensation
Indian Country Insurance, Inc.
Indian Health Service
Indians.Org
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe workers compensation statutes
List of, and links to, federally recognized American Indian Tribes (at USA.gov)
Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation workers compensation statutes
National Indian Law Library (NILL)
National Tribal Justice Resource Center, The
Navajo Nation Government, The
Nez Perce Tribe workers compensation statutes
Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin
Pascua Yaqui Tribe, The, workers compensation statutes
Prairie Island Indian Community workers compensation statutes
Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, The, workers compensation statutes
Snoqualmie Indian Tribe workers compensation statutes
Squaxin Island Tribe workers compensation statutes
Tribal Court Clearinghouse, The (Tribal Law and Policy Institute)
Tribal First Workers’ Compensation
Tribal Nation Insurance Services
Tulalip Tribes of Washington workers compensation statutes
UCLA Native Nations Law & Policy Center
Warm Springs Tribal workers compensation statutes
White Mountain Apache Tribe workers compensation statutes
|
