AALL Annual meeting, Program review F-4, “Strategic Alliance: The Tribal Supreme Court Project.”  The Tribal Supreme Court Project was actually created in response to several Native American law opinions that negated tribal sovereignty. In 2001, the tribal leaders who had gathered in Washington, D.C., on September 11 for a meeting found themselves unable to leave the city; they decided it was time to combat the Supreme Court’s wearing away of tribal sovereignty, and The Sovereignty Protection Initiative was born.