Incumbent Chief Chad Smith has filed an appeal with the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court challenging the results of the recently held election, where at different times he has been declared the winner and the loser.
An article in today’s Tulsa World discussing the case can be found here.
Smith’s appeal to the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court can be found here.
Order of the Supreme Court setting the hearing in the case for Friday, July 8 can be found here.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota is advertising a staff attorney position for their Racial Justice Project. The posting can be found here.
The State Bar of Wisconsin will host a Mining Law Symposium CLE on Thursday, August 25, 2011 which in many ways is in response to the proposed mine to be situated in the Penokee-Gogebic Iron Range in northwest Wisconsin, very near the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe Reservation, by Gogebic Taconite.
Here is information on the CLE:
Here is a Milwaukee Sentinel Journal article discussing Bad River Chairman Mike Wiggins’ concerns with the proposed mine:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/119739399.html
Here is recent article describing the mine from Northwoods Wilderness Recovery:
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