Can someone tell me what this means????!!!!
The Supreme Court has held that Indian tribes do not have inherent sovereign powers to try and to punish non-Indians for criminal acts. Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, 435 U.S. 191, 98 S.Ct. 1011, 55 L.Ed.2d 209 (1978). On the other hand, the Supreme Court has also acknowledged that Indian tribes retain inherent sovereign power to exercise "some forms of civil jurisdiction over non-Indians on their reservations," Montana v. United States, 450 U.S. 544, 565, 101 S.Ct.