Congratulations to Victoria Sweet, newest member of the Minnesota Bar. And chi-miigwetch to Judge Connors for doing the ceremony.
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Tulsa World Coverage Of Cherokee Nation Filing in Legal Fees Case
All Things Considered on Prosecuting in Tribal Court
“We live here. We engage the community here. We have an understanding of the crimes and the crime scenes, and we have Hopi juries here, and it gives us an advantage in that there are some cases I believe the tribal courts can more effectively prosecute,” she [Jill Engel] says.
Casey Family Programs Job Posting
Here.
Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) full-time contract position based in Washington DC to work on ICWA issues in partnership with the Dept. of the Interior and Administration for Children and Families (ACF).
Job Summary:
This full-time contract position supports national efforts, through the federal executive branch, to address well-being needs of children, youth and families, in particular, increase understanding of the needs and opportunities related to improving outcomes for Native American children and families impacted by child abuse and neglect. The placement will ultimately benefit Casey Family Programs, ACYF, and the BIA by advancing their respective missions to enhance the well-being of vulnerable families involved in child welfare.
ICT: Part Five of the Baby Veronica Coverage
Madison County Votes to Approve OIN/NY State Agreement
Turtle Talk Under Construction This Morning
Please ignore changes to layout over the next hour. Our template changed dramatically and we’re trying to fix it.
Guest Post: Indian Country Completely Shut Out of New Markets
INDIAN COUNTRY COMPLETELY SHUT OUT OF NEW MARKETS TAX CREDITS
Not a single Native Community Development Enterprise (NCDE) was selected for an award in the most recent round of New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocations (just announced by the CDFI Fund of the US Department of the Treasury) despite at least one Native-sponsored applicant and one non-Native applicant totally dedicated to Indian Country deployment. These two CDEs’ allocation requests were peer reviewed and ranked ‘highly qualified’ to be eligible for an allocation.
The NMTC program, which annually allocates about $3 Billion in Federal Tax credits that are sold to private investors for investing in low income communities’ economic development projects, has allocated over a $100 Billion in tax credit authority since the program’s inception in 2003. Indian Country NCDEs have only just started to receive a small portion of the annual allocations, in recent years. In total, Native CDEs have received about $250 Million in tax credit authority, or about 0.25% of total investment authority. While small in proportion to total NMTC allocation, this amount has made the NMTC program a significant source of Indian Country investment capital in only a few short years. Until this year, that is.
The failure to allocate ANY NMTC to Native CDEs in the most recent competition puts hundreds of millions of dollars of Indian Country pipeline projects at risk and highlights the need for the Federal Government to more directly address Indian Country’s rapidly expanding capacity to utilize NMTC. There is precedence at the CDFI Fund to solve this problem: Carve Out a portion of each NMTC allocation for competitive allocation just among Native CDEs similar to the already existing carve out that exists in the Native American CDFI Assistance (NACA) program, which reserves other elements of the CDFI Fund’s programs just for Indian Country. Without such a carve out, Indian Country will continue, in any given year, to be at risk of being crowded out of the intense competition for NMTC by other low income communities, whose larger populations support the formation of more CDEs that can enter, and potentially, win in the annual NMTC competition.
Briefs in Motion to Dismiss Hickory Ground Suit
Speakers Series Today
Profs. Watson, Seed, and Pearl:
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