Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

SCOTUS Examines The Jurisdictional Maze Hamstringing Tribal Law Enforcement

Zia Pueblo Gov. Jerome Lucero, who is also an officer with the Pueblo's police department, says he doesn't always have the authority to police travelers passing through Zia land on U.S. highway 550.
Mountain West New Bureau
Zia Pueblo Gov. Jerome Lucero, who is also an officer with the Pueblo's police department, says he doesn't always have the authority to police travelers passing through Zia land on U.S. highway 550.

U.S. Highway 550 runs from Montrose, Colo., to Bernailillo, N.M. If you drive all 300 miles of it, you'll weave in and out of tribal land more than a...

TribalCops_Feature_0528.wav

Copyright 2021 KUNM

Savannah comes to Wyoming Public Media from NPR’s midday show Here & Now, where her work explored everything from Native peoples’ fraught relationship with American elections to the erosion of press freedoms for tribal media outlets. A proud citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, she’s excited to get to know the people of the Wind River reservation and dig into the stories that matter to them.