Registration is at 2:30 and the event begins at 3 pm. The agenda is here, and more info. is here.
Author: Ann Tweedy
Bad River seeks removal of Enbridge pipeline from its reservation
Here.
Tribal Tax-Exemption Win in Washington Supreme Court
The Washington Supreme Court has upheld a state law allowing tribal fee lands used for economic development projects to be exempt from state taxes provided that the tribe pays a payment in lieu of tax. (PILT). The case concerned Muckleshoot-owned lands and Muckleshoot filed an amicus brief in the case. Here is the opinion in City of Snoqualmie v. King County Executive Dow Constantine.
#NoDAPL Turned on its Head
Here’s a piece by Terry Anderson & Shawn Regan arguing that the reasons that Standing Rock opposes the pipeline have to with the fact that the Tribe couldn’t benefit economically from DAPL due to stifling federal regulation. This is a very troubling argument that I worry is just 50s-era termination in sheep’s clothing.
Photographer Matika Wilbur at King County Library in Auburn, WA
DAPL Protest Poetry & Art Sought
Award-winning Standing Rock Sioux poet Tiffany Midge is soliciting poetry and artwork protesting DAPL for publication in broadsides for Broadside Press.
The full call is below:
http://broadsidedpress.org/responses/2016dapl/
Broadsided Special Features: Responses: Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) Protests at Standing Rock, 2016
At Broadsided Press, we believe that art and literature inspire and demonstrate the vitality and depth of our connection with the world. Art operates beyond the news cycle, connects surface information to deeper truths, and honors and what it attends.
We had to speak out—we had to make a space for you to speak out as artists and writers—on the continuing resistance at Standing Rock to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Send us poems, short-shorts, and artwork in response to Standing Rock. Full guidelines for length etc are available on our website.
With the help of guest editor Tiffany Midge, we will bring your work into broadsides for people to consider and share. Each broadside will feature the work of one visual artist and one literary artist, the combinations thereof selected and designed by the editors.
Submissions by those involved with the action (you are free to define what this means) are free.
DEADLINE: January 10, 2017
PUBLICATION: On or around February 1, 2017
Tiffany Midge’s poetry collection The Woman Who Married a Bear (University of New Mexico Press) won the Kenyon Review’s Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry. She is a humor columnist for Indian Country Today and an assistant poetry editor for The Rumpus. Her work is featured in McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Waxwing, Okey-Pankey, and Moss. She is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux (Hunkpapa Lakota). Follow her on Twitter @TiffanyMidge
New Law Review Note on Obergefell and Tribal Law
Steven Alagna has published this interesting and important piece in Washington University Law Review.
FBA’s November Indian Law Conference Next Friday
Attorney Alan Stay on the Culverts Decision
Here. My colleague Alan Stay was integrally involved in bringing the first treaty habitat case in U.S. v. WA, so this article makes for an interesting read.
Obama Administration Takes Action to Protect and Restore Puget Sound
Here.



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