Federal Court Stays Mille Lacs Reservation Boundaries Case Pending Interlocutory Appeal by County Officials

Here are the materials in Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians v. County of Mille Lacs (D. Minn.):

225 Tribe Motion for Summary Judgment

241 County Motion for Summary Judgment

250 State of Minnesota Amicus Brief

265-1 US Amicus Brief

269 Tribe Reply

271 County Reply

286 Tribe Supplemental Brief

288 County Response to 286

290 DCT Order

Prior post here.

Cornell/Yale Indigenous Nations and Climate Change Conference, April 21-23

Register here.

D.C. Circuit Rejects Tribal Contract Support Costs Claim re: Insurance Money

Here is the opinion in Swinomish Indian Tribal Community v. Becerra.

Briefs:

Swinomish Brief

Tribal Amicus Brief

Federal Answer Brief

Swinomish Reply

Lower court materials here.

 

Federal Suit against MHA Nation-Affiliated Lending Business Stayed Pending Fourth Circuit Decision in Hengle v. Treppa

Here are the materials in Manago v. Cane Bay Partners VII LLLP (D. Md.):

40 Amended Complaint

73-1 Motion to Stay

76 Opposition

82 DCT Order Granting Motion for Stay

The briefs in Hengle v. Treppa are here.

Kristen Carpenter’s Book Review of McNally’s “Defending the Sacred” in the Harvard Law Review

Kristen A. Carpenter has published “Living The Sacred: Indigenous Peoples and Religious Freedom” in the Harvard Law Review, reviewing Michael McNally’s “Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment.”

NYTs: “A Push to Move the Golf Course Atop a Native American ‘Stonehenge’”

Here.

WaPo: “This land is sacred to the Apache, and they are fighting to save it”

Here.

Wisconsin Federal Court Holds Tax Immunities Do Not Apply to Reacquired Reservation Land

Here are the relevant materials in Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Evers (W.D. Wis.):

153 State Motion for Summary J

171 Towns and Assessors Motion for Summary J

172 Tribe Motion for Summary J

213 Tribe Response to 171

215 Tribe Response to 153

223 State Reply in Support of 153

228 Towns and Assessors Reply in Support of 171

232 Tribe Reply in Support of 172

245 DCT Order

Prior post here.

Traverse City Record-Eagle: “Tribal leaders denounce Enbridge for ‘manipulative’ video about Indigenous peacemaking”

Here.

Also here.