Joseph Thomas Flies-Away, Carrie Garrow, and Pat Sekaquaptewa have published the second edition of Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts: The Key Components (PDF).
Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher
New Book — Safety for Native Women: VAWA and American Indian Tribes
Safety for Native Women: VAWA and American Indian Tribes
By Jacqueline Agtuca, Edited by Dorma Sahneyah
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center
Paperback $15.99
Digital $12.99
A powerful presentation of the impact of colonization of American Indian tribes on the safety of Native American women and the changes to address such violence under the Violence Against Women Act. This essential reading reviews, through the voices and experiences of Native women, the systemic reforms under the Act to remove barriers to justice and increase Native women’s safety. It places the historic changes witnessed over the last twenty years under the Act in the context of the tribal grassroots movement for safety of Native women. Legal practitioners, students, and social justice advocates will find this book a useful and inspirational resource to creating a more just, humane, and safer world.
To place orders please use this form: http://www.niwrc.org/vawa-book-pre-order
New Mexico Files Suit to Challenge Application of Part 291 Secretary Procedures to Pueblo of Pojoaque
Here is the complaint in State of New Mexico v. Jewell (D. N.M.):
Here are the materials in Pueblo of Pojoaque v. State of New Mexico (D. N.M.) referenced in the complaint:
11 Pueblo of Pojoaque Motion for Default Judgment
15 New Mexico Response to Motion for Default Judgment
18 Pueblo of Pojoaque Response
21 DCT Order Setting Aside Default Judgment
We posted the complaint in that case here.
Alaska SCT Decides Alaska Native Regional Corporation Shareholder Rights Case
Here is the opinion in Pederson v. Arctic Slope Regional Corp.:
Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean RFP for Tribal Consultant
MARCO is seeking a consultant to provide facilitation and outreach services with Tribal entities in the Mid-Atlantic region. The consultant will design and implement ocean planning outreach activities as described in the Request for Proposal (RFP). Through this outreach process, it is MARCO’s goal to expand and enhance Tribal engagement in the regional ocean planning process.
Please click here for the full RFP. Proposals are due on August 29, 2014.
Ninth Circuit Briefs in Attempt to Arbitrate Pechange Tort Claims Statute under IGRA
Here are the briefs in Cosentino v. Pechanga Band of Luiseño Mission Indians:
Repky brief TK
Lower court materials (C.D. Cal.):
Eighth Circuit Briefs in Lee v. Cleve Her Many Horses (Challenge to Oglala Sioux Tribal Govt.)
Federal Court Orders Tribal Court Exhaustion in Caddo Leadership Dispute
Federal Court Dismisses Jamul Action Committee Challenge under Rule 19 (with leave to amend)
Here are the materials in Jamul Action Committee v. Stevens (E.D. Cal.):
22 Jamul Indian Village Motion to Fiile Amicus Brief
22-1 Jamul Indian Village Motion to Dismiss
30 Jamul Action Committee Response to Jamul Indian Village
31 Jamul Action Committee Response to Feds
34 Jamul Indian Village Reply in Support of Amicus Motion
36 Jamul Indian Village Reply in Support of Motion to Dismiss
42-1 Jamul Action Committee Motion to Amend Complaint
We posted the complaint here.
Michigan COA Conditionally Reverses ICWA Matter for Lack of Proper Notice
Here is the opinion:
An excerpt:
In these consolidated appeals, respondent-mother S. Greene and respondent-father J. Mull each appeal the trial court’s order that terminated their parental rights. The court terminated respondent-mother’s parental rights to all four children under MCL 712A.19b(3)(b)(i), (g), (j), and (k)(iii), and terminated respondent-father’s parental rights to his three children under MCL 712A.19b(3)(b)(ii), (g), and (j). Because the trial court did not follow the precise notice requirements of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), we conditionally reverse the termination order with respect to both respondents only as to this issue, and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
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