Marty Indian School

[2] The Yankton Sioux Tribe owns the facilities and directly manages the school.

The school gave Stathis notice of his firing on December 1, 2017.

[2] Stathis, who later began work in California,[7] filed a lawsuit against the school for wrongful removal in the South Dakota courts.

Bruce Anderson, the judge of the first circuit court, ruled the case should be dismissed as Native American tribes are sovereign from the state government, Stathis filed an appeal to the South Dakota Supreme Court with his lawyer arguing that tribal sovereignty should be done away with.

[2] The South Dakota Supreme Court also ruled that tribes had sovereignty.