Here is “COVID-19 and Indian Country: A Legal Dispatch from the Navajo Nation,” from the Northwestern University Law Review blog.
Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Rebecca Nagle Repudiating Oklahoma’s Factual Claims in McGirt/Murphy
Civil Rights Suit against Mille Lacs Ojibwe Police Dismissed
Here are the materials in Gilliam v. Roach (D. Minn.):
Bloomberg News Profile of McGirt Argument
Here is “Gorsuch Gets Moment as Decider in Case Evoking Trail of Tears.”
The briefs are here.
Split Washington SCT Holds Title Insurance Co. Must Defend Non-Indian Property Owners from Indian Treaty Rights Claims
Here are the materials in Robbins v. Mason County Title Insurance Co.:
Mason County Title Opening Brief [COA]
Mason County Title Petition for Review
Update in Agua Caliente v. Mnuchin
Here are updated materials in Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians v. Mnuchin (D.D.C.):
Prior post here.
Ninth Circuit Materials in Crow Indian Tribe v. United States [Grizzly Bear Delisting]
National Indian Law Library Bulletin (5/6/2020)
Here:
We have scoured the web. Here are some of the latest materials related to Indian Law. Find all of the latest updates at narf.org/nill/bulletins/
Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2020.html
Pasaye v. State of Nevada (Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act)
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe v. Bernhardt (Recognition; Reservation Disestablishment)
Holtz v. Oneida Airport Hotel Corporation (Indian Civil Rights Act; Americans With Disabilities Act)
Fort Sill Apache Tribe v. National Indian Gaming Commission (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act; Administrative Procedure Act)
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians v. Department of the Interior (Trust Land Acquisition)
Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/2020.html
- Indigenous resilience.
- Building adaptive capacity in tribal communities of the Missouri River Basin to manage drought and climate extremes: A case study from the Wind River Indian Reservation.
U.S. Legislation – 116th Congress Bulletin
https://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/116_uslegislation.html
- S.3608 – A bill to amend the CARES Act to provide flexibility in use of funds by States, Indian Tribes, and municipalities.
- H.R.6700 – To authorize the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to approve State, local, and Indian tribal government plans to partner with small and mid-size restaurants and nonprofit organizations to provide nutritious meals to individuals in need, to waive certain matching fund requirements, and for other purposes.
News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
This week, in brief:
- U.S. Treasury to begin distributing virus relief money to tribes
- 2010 census changed voting maps in San Juan Country, but fears of an undercount loom
- Now, more than ever, we need tribes at the water negotiating table
- Uniting online for missing Native women, girls
- How Minnesotans can address homelessness among the state’s American Indians
- For some Native college students, online classes could be a dealbreaker
- Cafe brings Indigenous ‘comfort food’ to elders
- Indigenous studies requirement is a ‘no brainer’
- ‘We are a forgotten people’: Native candidate struggles to be heard amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Court upholds death penalty for Navajo man on U.S. death row
- Chuck Hoskin: Even during social distancing, Cherokee culture connects us
Recent American Indian Law Scholarship
Michalyn Steele, Indigenous Resilience, Arizona Law Review
Christine Zuni Cruz, The Indigenous Decade in Review, SMU Law Review Forum
Samuel Lazerwitz, Note, Sovereignty-Affirming Subdelegations: Recognizing the Executive’s Ability to Delegate Authority and Affirm Inherent Tribal Powers, Stanford Law Review
Jessica L. Garcia, Historical Trauma and American Indian/Alaska Native Youth Mental Health Development and Delinquency (PDF)
Kenneth N. Hansen, Uncivil Rights: The Abuse of Tribal Sovereignty and the Termination of American Indian Tribal Citizenship, IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies
Milan Kumar, American Indians and the Right to Vote: Why the Courts Are Not Enough, Boston College Law Review
Doug Kiel, Nation v. Municipality: Indigenous Land Recovery, Settler Resentment, and Taxation on the Oneida Reservation, NAIS: Native American and Indigenous Studies
Kent McNeil, The Louisiana Purchase: Indian and American Sovereignty in the Missouri Watershed, Western Historical Quarterly
Robert Miller, American Indian Sovereignty versus the United States, The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies
News Profile of Cindi and Ed John [GTB Fishers]
Here is “Tribal fishers left waiting for federal aid,” from the Traverse City Record-Eagle.
Turtle Talk 
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