Indigenous peoples have been resisting against the colonial drawn borders in both parts of the world. This resistance is seen physically on reserves as well as in legal battle against the powerful federal, states and corporate nexus in North America. While the tribal governments’ regulations to protect their environment from “fracking” are strict, maintaining “separateness” is mounting challenge to fundamental spatial, cultural, economic and political sovereignty. In the context of environmental protection, sovereignty is fundamental to establish environmental standards as they have been recognized as legitimate and that are enforceable. However, the federal and state institutional structure considers “sovereignty” as a non-Native, which fails to reflect indigenous values; therefore, it is an inappropriate political goal for Native Americans to legally defend their sovereignty at the US Supreme Court, which defined Native peoples as “domestic dependent nations”.…