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Tribes can enact laws and take actions that relate to tribal land. But the ability for tribes to dictate what happens in the skies over that land is less clear. The Federal Aviation Administration is the main authority controlling the use of airspace. But the growing proliferation of drones and small personal aircraft is prompting researchers and some tribes to explore how to assert jurisdiction to what happens overhead. We’ll discuss some of the current limits and possibilities for exerting sovereign influence over tribal airspace.
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Jacob Taylor (Curve Lake First Nation), CEO of Indigenous Aerospace
Jonathan Cordova, geography student at the University of Montana
Robert Gifford (citizen of the Cherokee Nation), Native American law attorney and tribal court judge
Shelly Knight, cyberinfrastructure facilitator at American Indian Higher Education Consortium
Break 1 Music: Intertribal (song) High Noon (artist) Generations (album)
Break 2 Music: Nd Waza Bat (song) Keith Secola (artist) Circle (album)
