Wes Colombe v. Rosebud Sioux Tribe

How courts have described this case

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• stating that as a matter of comity, the tribal court must be permitted to examine tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction in the first instance
• “[A] federal court should stay its hand in order to give tribal forums the initial opportunity to determine cases involving questions of tribal authority.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).