Here.
Briefs:
Wisconsin’s Brief and Motion to Strike
Tribes’ Response to Motion to Strike
Previous material is here.
Author: Adrea Korthase
Tribal Sovereignty Curriculum in Washington State Schools
Coal Export Project Delayed After Agency Failed to Properly Inform Yakama Nation
Story from the Oregonian is here. An excerpt
Oregon’s Department of State Lands, which had planned to decide on the company’s permit by Dec. 12 has delayed a decision until April 1, said Charles Redon, a resource coordinator for the agency.
DSL is opening a third public comment period on the Ambre’s Morrow Pacific project, which would bring coal by train from Montana or Wyoming, unload and store it at a new terminal at the Port of Morrow, then ship the coal by barge to a Port of St. Helens dock for export. The new comment period will run from Dec. 1 to Dec. 31.
The agency neglected to properly notify the Yakama Nation about the project, Redon said. The Yakama and other Northwest tribes have raised significant concerns about five proposals for terminals to export coal from the Northwest.
Information Meetings here.
More about coal exporting in the Pacific Northwest is at Northwest Public Radio here.
Previous post on the subject is here.
Wisconsin Night Deer Hunting Hearing Set for December 12
Wisconsin Tribes Seek to Enforce Treaty Rights in Night Deer Hunt
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Swears in First Police Chief and Police Sergeant
Chief of Police Alvin LaChance Jr. being sworn in by Judge Suzanne Ojibway Townsend. Tribal Council Vice-Chair Jack Giffen is in the background.
Police Sergeant Jake McKnight and Chief of Police Alvin LaChance Jr.
State of Oregon Warning (and Fight) Against Tribal Payday Lenders
The consumer alert is here.
Story from KATU is here (thanks to J.B.). An excerpt:
This woman’s case – and thousands like it – is now at the center of a legal battle at the highest levels of the U.S. Government –a story that’s taken us from Portland, to the halls of Congress, to a dusty town in Oklahoma – and deep into the pages of one of the murkiest chapters in America’s history. Millions of dollars hangs in the balance as the rights of you, the consumer, are pitted against the rights of all Native Americans.
Their treaties with the United States are century-old binding contracts upheld by numerous court decisions. But the issue of tribal sovereignty is taking center stage in the fight to stop online loan sharks.
Recent previous post here.
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