Anishinaabe law

Federal Court Confirms Immunity of Tribal Judges in Manoomin Order

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the updated materials in Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources v. White Earth Band of Ojibwe (D. Minn.):

21 DNR Letter Motion for Reconsideration

23 Manoomin Response

25 DCT Order

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Federal Court Dismisses Minnesota DNR’s Collateral Attack on Manoomin Suit Filed in Tribal Court

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources v. White Earth Band of Ojibwe (D. Minn.):‘

1 complaint.pdfDownload
1-2 tribal court order.pdfDownload
6 motion for preliminary injunction.pdfDownload
14 response.pdfDownload
16-1 modified tribal court order.pdfDownload
20 dct order.pdfDownload

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Kyle Whyte on Time, Kinship, and Climate Change

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Kyle Whyte has posted “Time and Kinship” on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Climate change is often discussed in terms of linear units of time. This essay covers the meaning of linear time and its implications for how climate change is narrated. There are concerns about how narrating climate change in this way can eclipse issues of justice in the energy transition. There are of course different ways of telling time. This essay provides a narration of climate change inspired by particular Indigenous scholars and writers. These conceptions of time narrate time through kinship, not linearity. One implication is that issues of justice are inseparable from the experience of climate change.