Summit is November 1-2, 2012 at Spirit Mountain Casino in Grand Ronde, Oregon. Agenda, registration, and other information can be found here.
Author: Adrea Korthase
Washington State Board of Education Encourages Schools to Remove Native American Mascots
Chimney Rock Designated a National Monument
Is Prudential Standing Jurisdictional?
The D. C. Circuit says yes. Last week’s article (on the blog Circuit Splits) is here. The article analyzes how the D.C. Circuit decision Grocery Manufacturers Association v. E.P.A. creates a circuit split as to whether prudential standing is jurisdictional. The dissent in the case relies significantly on Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. Patchak.
Minnesota Wellness Court Story and Video
Pioneer Press story is here. An excerpt
Excessive drinking cost the U.S. economy $223.5 billion in 2006, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2009, 10,839 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for roughly one-third of all traffic-related deaths in the U.S. that year.
Which brings me to Cass County District Judge John Smith and Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Tribal Court Associate Judge Korey Wahwassuck.
The jurists, from their upbringing and from handling cases, were long aware of the devastating impact of alcoholism on a good number of county residents, particularly on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation.
They realized that business as usual — locking up DWI offenders only to see them show up in court again and again for another offense — was not doing anybody any good.
So six years ago, Smith, Wahwassuck, probation officials and others established a first-of-its-kind joint DWI “wellness court.” They weathered initial pushback and resolved overlapping jurisdictional issues involving child custody and other matters.
Subcommittee Hearing Today 2pm ET on Three House Resolutions
Information here
- H.R. 726 (Schrader), To amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act to make technical corrections, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 3319 (Grijalva), To allow the Pascua Yaqui Tribe to determine the requirements for membership in that tribe.
- H.R. 6141 (Schrader), To provide for the addition of certain real property to the reservation of the Siletz Tribe in the State of Oregon.
WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY:
Panel I
Director Michael Black (H.R. 726, H.R. 3319 and H.R. 6141) Bureau of Indian Affairs U.S. Department of the Interior
Panel II
Vice-Chairman Reyn Leno (H.R. 726 and H.R. 6141) Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Grand Ronde, Oregon
Chair Delores Pigsley (H.R. 726 and H.R. 6141) Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon Siletz, Oregon
Chairman Robert Garcia (H.R. 6141) Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians Coos Bay, Oregon
Commissioner Terry Thompson (H.R. 6141) Lincoln County Newport, Oregon
Chairman Peter Yucupicio (H.R. 3319) Pascua Yaqui Tribe Tucson, Arizona
LTBB Tribal Council Votes Down Same-Sex Marriage Amendment, but Debate Continues
An excerpt from the Petoskey News:
The motion to approve the amendment failed on a 4-5 vote, but a second vote — passing 5-4 — put the entire tribal marriage statute that defines marriage as between a man and a woman up for legislative review.
The amendment would have made the tribe the first in Michigan to allow same-sex couples to wed. Only two tribes in the nation have adopted a similar marriage definition.
The decision would also have skirted a 2004 ballot proposal by Michigan voters that banned gay marriage for the entire state population, because the federal government recognizes tribes’ rights to govern themselves as a domestic nation.
Despite the failed vote, the issue is unlikely to be dropped.
Previous post on the topic is here. Miigwetch to C.D.
Treaty Rights in Washington Threatened by Lack of Progress in Recovering Salmon
Tribal and Federal Authorities Cooperate to Arrest 17 on Standing Rock
The article from the Bismarck Tribune is here. An excerpt:
Besides the FBI and BIA, the U.S. Marshal’s Service, Homeland Security Investigations, Drug Enforcement Administration, Sioux County Sheriff’s Department and U.S. Parole and Pre-Trial Services also were involved in the investigation and arrests Tuesday morning on the reservation that straddles North Dakota and South Dakota.
Operation Prairie Thunder resulted in 10 people being charged in U.S. District Court in North Dakota, two people being charged in U.S. District Court in South Dakota and five people charged in Standing Rock Tribal Court.
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In another unusual move, U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Miller traveled to Standing Rock Reservation south of Mandan on Tuesday morning to hold first appearances for the 10 people charged in U.S. District Court in North Dakota.
“It’s very, very rare” for a federal judge to travel to a reservation for court hearings, Purdon said. “I’m aware of it at least once in North Dakota, many, many years ago.”
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