
Defending Prairie Island Tribal Court jurisdiction (Tix v. Tix)
Tribal Nation courts possess jurisdiction over family law matters involving Tribal citizens, including divorces. In 2008, Robert William Tix — a member of the Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Indian Community — and Kristin Ann Tix (now known as McGowan) married and started a Tribal family. They had three Tribal citizen children together, and the family—including McGowan—lived primarily off Prairie Island Tribal resources.