Thursday evening in the Kid’s Camp/Buffalo Club Room:
MSU ILPC and Harvard Law Alumni Event at Fed Bar Featuring Rob Williams
Thursday evening in the Kid’s Camp/Buffalo Club Room:
Author: Kate E. Fort
LSJ Article on Potential Wolf Hunt and Tribes: “Saving Ma’iingan”
Here.
Tribal leaders say they have more than a cultural stake in the wolf, however.
They also believe the state has a legal obligation to give Michigan’s tribes an equal say in the management of the wolf and other wildlife species because of a treaty signed in 1836.
The Treaty of Washington was an agreement between the Ottawa and Chippewa nations and the United States in which the Indians agreed to cede 13 million acres of tribal land to the U.S. government — a move that paved the way for Michigan to become a state in 1837.
In return, Indians were granted unlimited hunting, gathering and fishing rights to the land.
In 2007, the treaty was strengthened in a court-mandated consent decree between the Department of Natural Resources and the tribes. The agreement requires the DNR to manage the state’s natural resources based on “sound scientific management” and to coordinate their efforts with the tribes.
Morning Edition Story: Maine and Tribes Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Here.
In Maine, an unusual and historic process is under way to document child welfare practices that once resulted in Indian children being forcibly removed from their homes. Many of the native children were placed with white foster parents. Chiefs from all five of Maine’s tribes, along with Gov. Paul LePage, have created a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help heal the wounds.
Opinion and Order in Saybrook v. Lake of the Torches
Here.
IT IS ORDERED that:
1) this case will be dismissed without prejudice for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, provided plaintiffs submit to the court within 14 days from the date of this order definitive proof of Wisconsin citizenship of one or more of the members of LDF Acquisition, LLC; or
2) absent such proof, this case shall proceed to a telephonic status conference on April 2, 2013, at 9:00 a.m.
Previous coverage here.
Comanche Nation v. CDST Gaming I, LLC, Tribal Jurisdiction
Opinion here
This Court is asked to determine whether, or not, the 2011 Tribal Court Ordinance of the Comanche Nation confers jurisdiction on the Court of Indian Offenses to hear the case entitled Comanche Nation vs. CDST-Ga~ing I, LLC. The case was filed in 2008, and has been the subject ofan Order by the United States District Court for the Westem District ofOklahoma (Judge Stephen P. Friot) wherein Judge Friot found that the Court oflndian Offenses should determine whether, or not, jurisdiction was appropriate witli the Court of Indian Offenses pursuant to the Ordinance adopted on April2, 2011 , by the Comanche Business Committee entitled Comanche Nation Tribal Court Civil Jurisdiction Ordinance of 2011, Resolution No. 36-11 which was approved by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs by a letter dated June 1O, 2011.
Pre-College Summer Program at Michigan State
Website here.
The Native American Business Institute is a week-long pre-college summer program for Native American high school students that will be in the 10th, 11th, or 12th grade during the Fall 2013- Spring 2014 school year. Participants work with MSU admissions officers, college counselors, tribal community leaders, and corporate representatives in a seven-day “business boot-camp” that prepares students for the college and exposes them to numerous academic and professional opportunities.
Federal Agency MOU on Sacred Sites
Here.
Prof. Carla Pratt at the Women and the Law Conference on Tribal Courts
House Passes Senate Version of VAWA
Latest Federal Press Release on Spirit Lake Child Protection Issues
Here.
Turtle Talk 
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