Termination of Parental Rights of John Doe (2014-25)

HORTON, Justice.

This is an expedited appeal from a magistrate court’s judgment terminating John Doe’s parental rights and allowing his son C.C. to be adopted. Doe argues that the magistrate court did not have jurisdiction to hear the case. We affirm.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Doe and C.C.’s mother (Mother) are the biological parents of C.C., who was born in 2008. Doe, Mother, and C.C. are all members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation (Tribes). Doe and Mother were never married, but lived together sporadically during the initial portion of C.C.’s life until…