Interior Dept. Official who Spoke Out in Favor of Alaska Natives Resigns

Here from WaPo. HuffPo.

Here is his resignation letter: Letter

Here is his whistleblower complaint: Form 11

Prior WaPo coverage when Clement spoke out last summer.

High Country News profile here.

Oh, When Will We Get a Better Government?

Here: “US votes against UN motion to condemn gay sex death penalty ‘over fears executions could be banned in the States’

NCAI Hearing on Indian Country Voting in the Great Lakes — Milwaukee, October 16, 2017

Here is the announcement:

great lakes voting rights hearing_oct 2017

Tribal Law Journal Call for Papers — ICRA Symposium

Here:

Call for Papers

Deadline for this Issue is December 15, 2017.

The symposium announcement is here.

The Tribal Law Journal blog is here.

The Tribal Law Journal is here.

Federal Court Suit to Enforce Arbitration Over Tribal Court Suit

Here are the materials so far in Halcón Operating Co. Inc. V. Rez Rock N Water LLC (D.N.D.):

1 Complaint

4 Motion for PI

Special Master Appointment in Navajo Nation v. San Juan County

On September 29, 2017, the Court in Navajo Nation v. San Juan County issued an order appointing Dr. Bernard Grofman, University of California, Irvine, to serve as Special Master and oversee redistricting of the County’s School Board and Commission election districts (past and current districting plans were found to have violated the Equal Protection Clause in three previous decisions). The Court also ordered San Juan County to pay the costs associated with the Special Master process. The Court laid out a remedial redistricting process that will allow it to establish new remedial redistricting plans by December, 2017, in time for the 2018 election cycle.

Here:

Order Appointing Special Master

New Indian Law Scholarship

Kirsten Matoy Carlson, Tribes Lobbying Congress: Who Wins and Why – Draft Report Presented at the 13th Annual Indigenous Law Conference Michigan State University

Stephanie Phillips, Columbia River Tribal Housing: Federal Progress Addressing Long Unmet Obligations [Ecology Law Quarterly]

Robert T. AndersonProtecting Offshore Areas from Oil and Gas Leasing: Presidential Authority Under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the Antiquities Act [forthcoming Ecology Law Quarterly]

Jessica A. ShoemakerPipelines, Protest, and Property [forthcoming Great Plains Research]

Doug KielBleeding Out: Histories and Legacies of ‘Indian Blood’, in K Ratteree and N Hill, The Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations, 2017

Tereza M. Szegh, Indigenous Rights In The Trump Era

Laurel Jimenez, The Body Subject To The Laws: Louise Erdrich’s Metaphorical Incarnation Of Federal Indian Law In “The Round House”

 

 

 

National Indian Law Library Bulletin (9/28/2017)

Here:

The National Indian Law Library added new content to the Indian Law Bulletins on 9/28/17.

U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/sct/2017-2018update.html
Petition was filed in Window Rock Unified School District v. Reeves (Employment) on 9/25/17.
Petition was filed in  Tavares v. Whitehouse (Indian Civil Rights Act) on 9/21/17.

News Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
In the Health & Welfare section, we feature an article about the status of Indian housing and, in the Sovereign Immunity section, we feature some articles about a drug company transferring patents to a tribe.

U.S. Federal Courts Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2017.html
Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (Fishing Rights – Usual and Accustomed Fishing Grounds)
Wyoming v. Zinke (Trust Lands – Hydraulic Fracturing)

U.S. Regulatory Bulletin  
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/regulatory/2017.html
We feature a Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management declaration of an emergency for the Seminole Tribe of Florida.

U.S. Legislation Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/115_uslegislation.html
The following bills were added:
S.1870: A bill to amend the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to secure urgent resources vital to Indian victims of crime, and for other purposes.
H.R.3847: To revise the Yurok reservation, and for other purposes.
S.1855: A bill to permit the Miami Nation of Indiana to apply for acknowledgment as a federally recognized Indian tribe, and for other purposes.

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/2017.html
We feature this article:
Towards ethical stewardship: Balancing natural and historic cultural resources in national parks.

Federal Court Finds Tribal Court Exhaustion Futile, Grants ICRA Habeas Petition

Here are the materials in Toya v. Toledo (D.N.M.):

10 Amended Habeas Petition

13 Answer

16 Reply

18 Magistrate Report

19 DCT Order Adopting Magistrate Report

Prior post here.