Matthew L. M. Fletcher

Publications

• Nanaboozhoo Died for Your Sins
  123 MICH. L. REV. 1273 (2025) · Michigan Law Review · 2025
• Original Comic: Tribal-Federal Symbiosis—An Aadioozaan
  61 TULSA L. REV. 127 (2025) · Tulsa Law Review · 2025
• Fletcher's Uncertainty Principle
  61 TULSA L. REV. 1 (2025) · Tulsa Law Review · 2025
• Against Judicial Generalists
  77 STAN. L. REV. 101 (2025) · Stanford Law Review · 2025
• Federal Indian Law as Method
  95 U. COLO. L. REV. 375 (2024) · University of Colorado Law Review · 2024
• Bizindan Miinawa (Listen Again)
  23 TRIBAL L.J. (2024) · Tribal Law Journal · 2024
• The Dark Matter of Federal Indian Law: The Duty of Protection
  75 ME. L. REV. 305 (2023) · Maine Law Review · 2023
• Uncomfortable Truths About Sovereignty and Wealth
  27 ROGER WILLLIAMS U. L. REV. (2022) · Roger Williams University Law Review · 2022
• Muskrat Textualism
  116 NW. U. L. REV. 963 (2022) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2022
• Lawyering the Indian Child Welfare Act
  120 MICH. L. REV. 1755 (2022) · Michigan Law Review · 2022
• Reflections on the Restatement of the Law of American Indians
  97 WASH. L. REV. (2022) · Washington Law Review · 2022
• Textualism’s Gaze
  25 MICH. J. RACE & L. 111 (2020) · Michigan Journal of Race and Law · 2020
• Indian Lives Matter
  73 STAN. L. REV. 38 (2020) · Stanford Law Review · 2020
• Politics, Indian Law, and the Constitution
  108 CAL. L. REV. 495 (2020) · California Law Review · 2020

• Failed Protectors: The Indian Trust and <em>Killers of the Flower Moon</em>
  117 MICH. L. REV. 1253 (2019) · Michigan Law Review · 2019
• 2018 James R. Browning Symposium Keynote
  80 MONT. L. REV. (2019) · Montana Law Review · 2019
• On Indian Children and the Fifth Amendment
  80 MONT. L. REV. 99 (2019) · Montana Law Review · 2019
• States and Their American Indian Citizens
  41 AM. INDIAN L. REV. 319 (2017) · American Indian Law Review · 2017
• Tribal Jurisdiction—A Historical Bargain
  76 MD. L. REV. 593 (2017) · Maryland Law Review · 2017
• We Need Protection from Our Protectors: The Nature, Issues, and Future of the Federal Trust Responsibility to Indians
  6 MICH. J. ENVTL. & ADMIN. L. 397 (2017) · Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law · 2017
• Indian Children and the Federal-Tribal Trust Relationship
  95 NEB. L. REV. 885 (2017) · Nebraska Law Review · 2017
• Tribal Disruption and Federalism
  76 MONT. L. REV. 97 (2015) · Montana Law Review · 2015
• The Seminole Tribe and the Origins of Indian Gaming
  9 FIU L. REV. 255 (2014) · FIU Law Review · 2014
• Tribal Disruption and Indian Claims
  112 MICH. L. REV. FIRST IMPRESSIONS 65 (2014) · Michigan Law Review First Impressions · 2014
• Indian Courts and Fundamental Fairness: Indian Courts and the Future Revisited
  84 U. COLO. L. REV. 59 (2013) · University of Colorado Law Review · 2013
• Toward a New Era of American Indian Scholarship: An Introductory Essay for the American Indian Law Journal
  1 AM. INDIAN L.J. (2013) · American Indian Law Journal · 2013
• The Utility of Amicus Briefs in the Supreme Court’s Indian Cases
  2 AM. INDIAN L.J. (2013) · American Indian Law Journal · 2013
• American Indian Legal Scholarship and the Courts: Heeding Frickey's Call
  Volume 4 CALIF. L. REV. ONLINE (2013) · California Law Review Online · 2013
• Tribal Membership and Indian Nationhood
  37 AM. INDIAN L. REV. (2012) · American Indian Law Review · 2012
• The Original Understanding of the Political Status of Indian Tribes
  82 ST. JOHN'S L. REV. (2012) · St. John's Law Review · 2012
• Race and American Indian Tribal Nationhood
  11 WYO. L. REV 295 (2011) · Wyoming Law Review · 2011
• Resisting Federal Courts on Tribal Jurisdiction
  81 U. COLO. L. REV. 973 (2010) · University of Colorado Law Review · 2010

• Sovereign Comity: Factors Recognizing Tribal Court Criminal Convictions in State and Federal Courts
  Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association · 2009
• The Supreme Court's Indian Problem
  59 UC L.J. 579 (2008) · UC Law Journal · 2008
• Rethinking Customary Law in Tribal Court Jurisprudence
  13 MICH. J. RACE & L. 57 (2007) · Michigan Journal of Race and Law · 2007
• Retiring the Deadliest Enemies Model of Tribal-State Relations
  43 TULSA L. REV. 73 (2007) · Tulsa Law Review · 2007
• Same-sex Marriage, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution
  61 U. MIAMI L. REV. 53 (2006) · University of Miami Law Review · 2006
• Looking to the East: The Stories of Modern Indian People and the Development of Tribal Law
  5 SEATTLE J. FOR SOC. JUST. (2006) · Seattle Journal for Social Justice · 2006
• The Iron Cold of the Marshall Trilogy
  82 N. D. L. REV. 627 (2006) · North Dakota Law Review · 2006
• Politics, History, and Semantics: The Federal Recognition of Indian Tribes
  82 N. D. L. REV. 487 (2006) · North Dakota Law Review · 2006
• The Supreme Court and Federal Indian Policy
  85 NEB. L. REV. (2006) · Nebraska Law Review · 2006
• The Legal Fiction of the Lake Matchimanitou Indian School
  13 AM. U. J. GENDER & SOC. POL'Y & L. (2005) · American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law · 2005
• Tribal Employment Separation: Tribal Law Enigma, Tribal Governance Paradox, and Tribal Court Conundrum
  38 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 273 (2005) · University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform · 2005
• Power, Authority, and Tribal Property
  41 TULSA L. REV. 21 (2005) · Tulsa Law Review · 2005
• The Insidious Colonialism of the Conqueror: The Federal Government in Modern Tribal Affairs
  19 WASH. U. J. L. & POL'Y 273 (2005) · Washington University Journal of Law & Policy · 2005
• A Restatement Of The Common Law Of The Grand Traverse Band Of Ottawa And Chippewa Indians
  7 TRIBAL L.J. (2004) · Tribal Law Journal · 2004
• Stick Houses in Peshawbestown
  2 CARDOZO PUB. L. POL 'Y & ETHICS J. 189 (2004) · Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal · 2004
• In Pursuit of Tribal Economic Development as a Substitute for Reservation Tax Revenue
  80 N. D. L. REV. 759 (2004) · North Dakota Law Review · 2004
• The Legal Fiction of Standardized Testing
  21 MINN. J. L. & INEQ. 397 (2003) · Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality · 2003
• Sawnawgezewog: "The Indian Problem" and the Lost Art of Survival
  28 AM. INDIAN L. REV. 35 (2003) · American Indian Law Review · 2003

• Listen
  3 MICH. J. RACE & L. 523 (1998) · Michigan Journal of Race and Law · 1998