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by anon291 12 days ago
If you're not an Indian (us legal term) then I believe you can file a federal case, can you? Tribal law can't supercede basic American law from what I understand especially not when there's a non Indian involved.
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> Tribal law can't supercede basic American law

It does if you're on tribal land–that's generally held to ber sovereign territory by U.S. law (at least for commercial disputes). But if you're an American outside tribal land, and are not an Indian, I believe you're right. (Counterpoint, sort of: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl [1].)

[1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/570/637/

This is family law though. That's different. The op said he was defrauded which is criminal.

If both perp and victim are indian then the tribal courts can handle a criminal case

But if one is not then it's an automatic federal jurisdiction I believe